Schools
31 open schools are in scope, including 20 primary and 4 secondary schools. Morecambe Bay Academy is the nearest published school at 95 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LA4 5BA
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 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LA4 5BA
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 July 1995
- Terminated
- 1 December 1996
- Postcode area
- LA
- Postcode district
- LA4
- Postcode sector
- LA4 5
- Latitude
- 54.076120
- Longitude
- -2.851240
- British National Grid easting
- 344,400
- British National Grid northing
- 464,800
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
- E00127324
- Lower layer super output area
- Lancaster 004C · E01025087
- Middle layer super output area
- Lancaster 004 · E02005224
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
- 31
- Primary
- 20
- Secondary
- 4
- 95 m
Morecambe Bay Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 323 m
St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Morecambe
Voluntary aided school
- 496 m
Poulton-le-Sands Church of England Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,570
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 908
- Anti social behaviour 488
- Criminal damage and arson 289
- Shoplifting 172
- Other theft 134
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- LA4 5 residents
- 8,760
Age bands in LA4 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 21.4%
1,669 residents
1,049 residents
2,115 residents
2,297 residents
1,943 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
3
within 5 km straight-line
QUEEN SQUARE MEDICAL PRACTICE
2 QUEEN SQUARE, LANCASTER, LA1 1RP
ODS code P81013
4.7 km
BAY MEDICAL GROUP
HEYSHAM PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, MIDDLETON WAY, HEYSHAM, MORECAMBE, LA3 2LE
ODS code Y01008
4.7 km
LANCASTER MEDICAL PRACTICE
8 DALTON SQUARE, LANCASTER, LA1 1PN
ODS code P81002
4.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
High School
BCT · Morecambe
- 0.1 miles
Broadway
BCT · Morecambe
- 0.1 miles
Broadway
BCT · Morecambe
- 0.1 miles
Thornton Road
BCT · Morecambe
- 0.2 miles
Thornton Road
BCT · Morecambe
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Lancaster 004C, 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
3 of 10
Overall England rank
9,226 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 3 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
2,570 published events cover 12 months, averaging 214.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 908 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.