Schools
26 open schools are in scope, including 18 primary and 2 secondary schools. West End Primary School is the nearest published school at 859 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LA4 4BZ
Poulton · Lancaster · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Poulton
- Local authority
- Lancaster
- Constituency
- Morecambe and Lunesdale
- Postcode district
- LA4
- Postcode sector
- LA4 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LA4 4BZ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 June 2003
- Postcode area
- LA
- Postcode district
- LA4
- Postcode sector
- LA4 4
- Latitude
- 54.071937
- Longitude
- -2.875529
- British National Grid easting
- 342,805
- British National Grid northing
- 464,354
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Lancaster · E07000121
- Electoral ward
- Poulton · E05014900
- Parish or community
- E04012009
- Westminster constituency
- Morecambe and Lunesdale · E14001372
- Output area
- E00127575
- Lower layer super output area
- Lancaster 006D · E01025139
- Middle layer super output area
- Lancaster 006 · E02005226
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 LA4
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 26
- Primary
- 18
- Secondary
- 2
- 859 m
West End Primary School
Community school
- 968 m
Morecambe Bay Community Primary School
Community school
- 1.2 km
Poulton-le-Sands Church of England Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,515
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,321
- Anti social behaviour 581
- Criminal damage and arson 395
- Other theft 209
- Shoplifting 208
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- LA4 4 residents
- 9,165
Age bands in LA4 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 20.3%
1,558 residents
1,016 residents
2,177 residents
2,357 residents
1,809 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
3.6 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
The Platform
BCT · Morecambe
- 0.1 miles
ALDI
BCT · Morecambe
- 0.1 miles
Morrisons
BCT · Morecambe
- 0.1 miles
Festival Market
BCT · Morecambe
- 0.2 miles
ALDI
BCT · Morecambe
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Lancaster 006D, 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
1 of 10
Overall England rank
155 of 33,755
- Income
- 1 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 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
3,515 published events cover 12 months, averaging 292.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,321 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.