Schools
19 open schools are in scope, including 15 primary and 2 secondary schools. Mossgate Primary School is the nearest published school at 379 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LA3 2TZ
Heysham Central · Lancaster · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Heysham Central
- Local authority
- Lancaster
- Constituency
- Morecambe and Lunesdale
- Postcode district
- LA3
- Postcode sector
- LA3 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LA3 2TZ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 December 1998
- Terminated
- 1 July 2016
- Postcode area
- LA
- Postcode district
- LA3
- Postcode sector
- LA3 2
- Latitude
- 54.048697
- Longitude
- -2.892405
- British National Grid easting
- 341,668
- British National Grid northing
- 461,782
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Lancaster · E07000121
- Electoral ward
- Heysham Central · E05014893
- Parish or community
- E43000253
- Westminster constituency
- Morecambe and Lunesdale · E14001372
- Output area
- E00127471
- Lower layer super output area
- Lancaster 016A · E01025114
- Middle layer super output area
- Lancaster 016 · E02005236
Postcode source versions
- Ordnance Survey: Code-Point Open Version 2026-08 · Current postcode units in Great Britain · OGL-3.0
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory Version 2026-08 · United Kingdom; Northern Ireland excluded pending rights review; Crown Dependencies outside product scope · OGL-3.0 with third-party rights
- Ordnance Survey: Boundary-Line Version 2026-05 · Local-authority boundaries in Great Britain · OS OpenData Licence
Explore LA3
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 19
- Primary
- 15
- Secondary
- 2
- 379 m
Mossgate Primary School
Community school
- 554 m
Heysham St Peter's Church of England Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 599 m
St Patrick's Catholic Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,196
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 498
- Anti social behaviour 244
- Criminal damage and arson 133
- Other theft 65
- Vehicle crime 62
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- LA3 2 residents
- 10,664
Age bands in LA3 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 20.4%
2,013 residents
1,089 residents
2,608 residents
2,907 residents
2,205 residents
Small counts are adjusted for privacy, so totals can differ slightly between Census tables.
Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.
GP practices
1
within 5 km straight-line
BAY MEDICAL GROUP
HEYSHAM PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, MIDDLETON WAY, HEYSHAM, MORECAMBE, LA3 2LE
ODS code Y01008
784 m
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Strawberry Gardens
BCT · Heysham
- 0.1 miles
Sugham Lane
BCT · Kingsway
- 0.1 miles
Strawberry Gardens
BCT · Heysham
- 0.1 miles
Heysham Avenue
BCT · Heysham
- 0.2 miles
Shops
BCT · Kingsway
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Lancaster 016A, the published LSOA linked to this postcode. Decile 1 contains the most deprived 10% of English LSOAs and decile 10 the least deprived 10%.
Overall IMD decile
6 of 10
Overall England rank
19,303 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 of 10
These are relative area statistics, not measures of an individual household, affluence or absolute change. They cannot be compared with indices for other UK nations. Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025, version 2025-v2.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
1,196 published events cover 12 months, averaging 99.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 498 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.