Schools
29 open schools are in scope, including 20 primary and 3 secondary schools. West End Primary School is the nearest published school at 303 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LA4 4JU
West End · Lancaster · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- West End
- Local authority
- Lancaster
- Constituency
- Morecambe and Lunesdale
- Postcode district
- LA4
- Postcode sector
- LA4 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LA4 4JU
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 August 1992
- Terminated
- 1 May 1994
- Postcode area
- LA
- Postcode district
- LA4
- Postcode sector
- LA4 4
- Latitude
- 54.064273
- Longitude
- -2.873916
- British National Grid easting
- 342,900
- British National Grid northing
- 463,500
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Lancaster · E07000121
- Electoral ward
- West End · E05014910
- Parish or community
- E04012009
- Westminster constituency
- Morecambe and Lunesdale · E14001372
- Output area
- E00127439
- Lower layer super output area
- Lancaster 008B · E01025113
- Middle layer super output area
- Lancaster 008 · E02005228
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
- 29
- Primary
- 20
- Secondary
- 3
- 303 m
West End Primary School
Community school
- 571 m
Bay Leadership Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 718 m
Morecambe and Heysham Sandylands Community Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,963
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,467
- Anti social behaviour 666
- Criminal damage and arson 439
- Other theft 258
- Shoplifting 225
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
2.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Park Hotel
BCT · West End
- 0.1 miles
Park Hotel
BCT · West End
- 0.1 miles
Regent Park
BCT · West End
- 0.2 miles
St Barnabas Church
BCT · West End
- 0.2 miles
Regent Park
BCT · West End
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Lancaster 008B, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
11,997 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 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
3,963 published events cover 12 months, averaging 330.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,467 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.