Property market
The five-year median is £776,000 from 1 recorded sale in PR5 6AU. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Chorley is £212,647 in June 2026, up 3.7% year on year.
PR5 6AU
Clayton West & Cuerden · Chorley · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- PR5 6AU
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- PR
- Postcode district
- PR5
- Postcode sector
- PR5 6
- Latitude
- 53.707688
- Longitude
- -2.664561
- British National Grid easting
- 356,230
- British National Grid northing
- 423,677
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Chorley · E07000118
- Electoral ward
- Clayton West & Cuerden · E05013073
- Parish or community
- E04005149
- Westminster constituency
- Chorley · E14001170
- Output area
- E00181991
- Lower layer super output area
- Chorley 003E · E01024957
- Middle layer super output area
- Chorley 003 · E02005191
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
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Property
4 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Engineers Cottage, Shady Lane, Bamber Bridge, Preston, PR5 6AU | 4 November 2024 | £776,000 |
| Rose Cottage, 1, Shady Lane, Bamber Bridge, Preston, PR5 6AU | 24 March 2017 | £238,000 |
| Engineers Cottage, Shady Lane, Bamber Bridge, Preston, PR5 6AU | 20 August 2015 | £665,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 57
- Primary
- 40
- Secondary
- 7
- 1.0 km
Lever House Primary School
Community school
- 1.2 km
Clayton-le-Woods Church of England Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 1.2 km
Roselyn House School
Other independent special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 876
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 357
- Anti social behaviour 147
- Shoplifting 107
- Criminal damage and arson 73
- Other theft 49
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 19
- Postcode households
- 7
- Residents per household
- 2.7
- PR5 6 residents
- 10,976
10 female, 9 male
Age bands in PR5 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 27.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 17.6%
1,928 residents
1,168 residents
2,990 residents
2,946 residents
1,930 residents
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider PR5 6 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
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+
- 66.7%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 66.7%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 66.7%
- Gigabit-capable
- 66.7%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- 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
14
within 5 km
DR DAWOUD'S SURGERY
652 PRESTON ROAD, CLAYTON-LE-WOODS, CHORLEY, PR6 7EH
ODS code P81701
1.6 km
CLAYTON BROOK SURGERY
59-60 TUNLEY HOLME, BAMBER BRIDGE, CLAYTON BROOK, PRESTON, PR5 8ES
ODS code P81180
1.8 km
WHITTLE SURGERY
239 PRESTON ROAD, CLAYTON-LE-WOODS, CHORLEY, PR6 7PY
ODS code P81143
2.3 km
CENTRAL PARK SURGERY
BALFOUR STREET, LEYLAND, PR25 2TD
ODS code P81117
2.5 km
THE RYAN MEDICAL CENTRE
ST. MARYS ROAD, BAMBER BRIDGE, PRESTON, PR5 6JD
ODS code P81082
2.5 km
LOSTOCK HALL MEDICAL CTR.
DARDSLEY HOUSE, BROWNEDGE ROAD, PRESTON, PR5 5AB
ODS code P81179
2.7 km
SANDY LANE SURGERY
SANDY LANE, LEYLAND, PR25 2EB
ODS code P81076
2.8 km
ROSLEA SURGERY
51 STATION ROAD, BAMBER BRIDGE, PRESTON, PR5 6PE
ODS code P81083
2.9 km
BUCKSHAW VILLAGE HEALTH CENTRE
UNITY PLACE, BUCKSHAW VILLAGE, CHORLEY, PR7 7HZ
ODS code Y02466
3.3 km
STATION SURGERY
LEYLAND SURGERY, WEST PADDOCK, LEYLAND, PR25 1HR
ODS code P81741
3.6 km
WORDEN MEDICAL CENTRE
WEST PADDOCK, LEYLAND, PR25 1HR
ODS code P81057
3.6 km
THE EUXTON MEDICAL CENTRE
ST. MARYS GATE, EUXTON, CHORLEY, PR7 6AH
ODS code P81171
4.4 km
RIVERSIDE MEDICAL CENTRE
194 VICTORIA ROAD, WALTON-LE-DALE, PRESTON, PR5 4AY
ODS code P81185
4.5 km
MOSS SIDE MEDICAL CENTRE
16 MOSS SIDE WAY, LEYLAND, PR26 7XL
ODS code P81186
4.5 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
- 0.3 miles
Residential Park
BCT · Cuerden
- 0.3 miles
Residential Park
BCT · Cuerden
- 0.5 miles
Club Equestrian
BCT · Clayton-le-Woods
- 0.5 miles
Club Equestrian
BCT · Clayton-le-Woods
- 0.5 miles
Wychwood Grove
BCT · Clayton-le-Woods
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Chorley 003E, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
27,736 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Schools
57 open schools are in scope, including 40 primary and 7 secondary schools. Lever House Primary School is the nearest published school at 0.6 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
876 published events cover 12 months, averaging 73 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 357 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.