Schools
7 open schools are in scope, including 6 primary and 0 secondary schools. Forton Primary School is the nearest published school at 82 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
PR3 0AZ
Wyresdale · Wyre · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Wyresdale
- Local authority
- Wyre
- Constituency
- Lancaster and Wyre
- Postcode district
- PR3
- Postcode sector
- PR3 0
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- PR3 0AZ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 December 1994
- Terminated
- 1 December 1995
- Postcode area
- PR
- Postcode district
- PR3
- Postcode sector
- PR3 0
- Latitude
- 53.955257
- Longitude
- -2.781720
- British National Grid easting
- 348,800
- British National Grid northing
- 451,300
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Wyre · E07000128
- Electoral ward
- Wyresdale · E05009955
- Parish or community
- E04005326
- Westminster constituency
- Lancaster and Wyre · E14001318
- Output area
- E00129963
- Lower layer super output area
- Wyre 006C · E01025609
- Middle layer super output area
- Wyre 006 · E02005324
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 PR3
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 7
- Primary
- 6
- Secondary
- 0
- 82 m
Forton Primary School
Community school
- 1.8 km
Crookhey Hall School
Other independent special school
- 2.3 km
Cockerham Parochial CofE Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 114
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 44
- Anti social behaviour 18
- Vehicle crime 12
- Other theft 9
- Criminal damage and arson 9
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- PR3 0 residents
- 8,711
Age bands in PR3 0
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 12.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 20.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 24.2%
1,298 residents
1,102 residents
1,792 residents
2,546 residents
2,155 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.
Nearby transport
- 0.3 miles
School Lane
BCT · Forton
- 0.3 miles
School Lane
BCT · Forton
- 0.4 miles
Sunny Bank Nurseries
BCT · Forton
- 0.4 miles
Sunny Bank Nurseries
BCT · Forton
- 0.4 miles
Forton Bank
BCT · Forton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wyre 006C, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
22,816 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
114 published events cover 12 months, averaging 9.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 44 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.