Schools
9 open schools are in scope, including 8 primary and 1 secondary schools. Carnforth High School is the nearest published school at 653 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LA6 1FW
Halton-with-Aughton & Kellet · Lancaster · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Lancaster
- Constituency
- Morecambe and Lunesdale
- Postcode district
- LA6
- Postcode sector
- LA6 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LA6 1FW
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 March 2021
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- LA
- Postcode district
- LA6
- Postcode sector
- LA6 1
- Latitude
- 54.126571
- Longitude
- -2.750853
- British National Grid easting
- 351,028
- British National Grid northing
- 470,339
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Lancaster · E07000121
- Electoral ward
- Halton-with-Aughton & Kellet · E05014892
- Parish or community
- E04005197
- Westminster constituency
- Morecambe and Lunesdale · E14001372
- Output area
- E00127541
- Lower layer super output area
- Lancaster 002A · E01025130
- Middle layer super output area
- Lancaster 002 · E02005222
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 LA6
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 9
- Primary
- 8
- Secondary
- 1
- 653 m
Carnforth High School
Academy converter
- 753 m
Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Primary School, Carnforth
Academy converter
- 1.1 km
Carnforth Christ Church, Church of England, Voluntary Aided Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 392
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 165
- Anti social behaviour 83
- Other theft 33
- Criminal damage and arson 27
- Burglary 20
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- LA6 1 residents
- 5,635
Age bands in LA6 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 18.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 28.3%
848 residents
487 residents
1,019 residents
1,652 residents
1,585 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+
- 75%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 75%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 75%
- Gigabit-capable
- 75%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 75%
- 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
1
within 5 km
ASH TREES SURGERY
MARKET STREET, CARNFORTH, LA5 9JU
ODS code P81029
1.2 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
- 0.4 miles
Hardknot Rise
BCT · Carnforth
- 0.4 miles
High School
BCT · Carnforth
- 0.4 miles
Hard Knott Rise
BCT · Carnforth
- 0.4 miles
Our Lady of Lourdes
BCT · Carnforth
- 0.5 miles
Highfield Road
BCT · Carnforth
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Lancaster 002A, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
23,651 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 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
392 published events cover 12 months, averaging 32.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 165 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.