Schools
41 open schools are in scope, including 26 primary and 7 secondary schools. Morecambe Road School is the nearest published school at 803 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LA3 3BY
Westgate · Lancaster · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Westgate
- Local authority
- Lancaster
- Constituency
- Morecambe and Lunesdale
- Postcode district
- LA3
- Postcode sector
- LA3 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LA3 3BY
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 February 2019
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- LA
- Postcode district
- LA3
- Postcode sector
- LA3 3
- Latitude
- 54.060547
- Longitude
- -2.845742
- British National Grid easting
- 344,739
- British National Grid northing
- 463,063
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Lancaster · E07000121
- Electoral ward
- Westgate · E05014911
- Parish or community
- E04012009
- Westminster constituency
- Morecambe and Lunesdale · E14001372
- Output area
- E00127745
- Lower layer super output area
- Lancaster 010D · E01025173
- Middle layer super output area
- Lancaster 010 · E02005230
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
- 41
- Primary
- 26
- Secondary
- 7
- 803 m
Morecambe Road School
Community special school
- 917 m
Lancaster Road Primary School
Community school
- 1.0 km
Morecambe and Heysham Westgate Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,134
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 784
- Anti social behaviour 396
- Criminal damage and arson 210
- Other theft 127
- Shoplifting 123
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- LA3 3 residents
- 6,153
Age bands in LA3 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 24.2%
968 residents
587 residents
1,362 residents
1,776 residents
1,495 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.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
3
within 5 km
QUEEN SQUARE MEDICAL PRACTICE
2 QUEEN SQUARE, LANCASTER, LA1 1RP
ODS code P81013
3.3 km
LANCASTER MEDICAL PRACTICE
8 DALTON SQUARE, LANCASTER, LA1 1PN
ODS code P81002
3.5 km
BAY MEDICAL GROUP
HEYSHAM PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, MIDDLETON WAY, HEYSHAM, MORECAMBE, LA3 2LE
ODS code Y01008
3.8 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
White Lund Road
BCT · Westgate
- 0.1 miles
White Lund Est
BCT · White Lund
- 0.1 miles
White Lund Road
BCT · Westgate
- 0.1 miles
White Lund Stagecoach Depot
BCT · White Lund
- 0.2 miles
Winthorpe Avenue
BCT · Westgate
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Lancaster 010D, 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
2 of 10
Overall England rank
3,398 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
2,134 published events cover 12 months, averaging 177.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 784 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.