Schools
51 open schools are in scope, including 32 primary and 6 secondary schools. Waterloo Lodge is the nearest published school at 707 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
PR6 7BP
Chorley North & Astley · Chorley · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- PR6 7BP
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 September 1991
- Terminated
- 1 January 1995
- Postcode area
- PR
- Postcode district
- PR6
- Postcode sector
- PR6 7
- Latitude
- 53.666730
- Longitude
- -2.631074
- British National Grid easting
- 358,400
- British National Grid northing
- 419,100
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Chorley · E07000118
- Electoral ward
- Chorley North & Astley · E05013069
- Parish or community
- E43000094
- Westminster constituency
- Chorley · E14001170
- Output area
- E00126550
- Lower layer super output area
- Chorley 006E · E01024933
- Middle layer super output area
- Chorley 006 · E02005194
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 PR6
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 51
- Primary
- 32
- Secondary
- 6
- 707 m
Waterloo Lodge
Other independent special school
- 743 m
St Michael's Church of England High School
Academy converter
- 762 m
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Chorley
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,117
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 899
- Anti social behaviour 345
- Shoplifting 174
- Public order 148
- Criminal damage and arson 147
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- PR6 7 residents
- 11,191
Age bands in PR6 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 31.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 20%
1,764 residents
1,086 residents
2,492 residents
3,482 residents
2,206 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
10
within 5 km straight-line
GAB HEALTHCARE
32-34 ST THOMAS'S ROAD, CHORLEY, PR7 1HR
ODS code P81127
1.5 km
DR JACOBS SURGERY
COLLISON AVENUE, CHORLEY, PR7 2PA
ODS code Y00347
1.5 km
THE CHORLEY SURGERY
24-26 GILLIBRAND STREET, CHORLEY, PR7 2EJ
ODS code P81038
1.7 km
LIBRARY HOUSE SURGERY
AVONDALE ROAD, CHORLEY, PR7 2AD
ODS code P81044
1.8 km
REGENT HOUSE SURGERY
21 REGENT ROAD, CHORLEY, PR7 2DH
ODS code P81062
1.8 km
BUCKSHAW VILLAGE HEALTH CENTRE
UNITY PLACE, BUCKSHAW VILLAGE, CHORLEY, PR7 7HZ
ODS code Y02466
2.2 km
THE EUXTON MEDICAL CENTRE
ST. MARYS GATE, EUXTON, CHORLEY, PR7 6AH
ODS code P81171
3.0 km
WHITTLE SURGERY
239 PRESTON ROAD, CLAYTON-LE-WOODS, CHORLEY, PR6 7PY
ODS code P81143
3.0 km
SANDY LANE SURGERY
SANDY LANE, LEYLAND, PR25 2EB
ODS code P81076
4.9 km
DR DAWOUD'S SURGERY
652 PRESTON ROAD, CLAYTON-LE-WOODS, CHORLEY, PR6 7EH
ODS code P81701
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Hospital Stop 2
BCT · Chorley Hospital
- 0.1 miles
Hartwood Hotel
BCT · Hartwood
- 0.1 miles
Hospital Stop 1
BCT · Chorley Hospital
- 0.2 miles
Preston Road
BCT · The Crescent
- 0.2 miles
Hospital Stop 3
BCT · Chorley Hospital
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Chorley 006E, 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
8,974 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 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
2,117 published events cover 12 months, averaging 176.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 899 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.