Schools
42 open schools are in scope, including 30 primary and 4 secondary schools. Progress School is the nearest published school at 594 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
PR6 8NB
Clayton East, Brindle & Hoghton · Chorley · England
Updated September 2026
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Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- PR6 8NB
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 2008
- Postcode area
- PR
- Postcode district
- PR6
- Postcode sector
- PR6 8
- Latitude
- 53.711056
- Longitude
- -2.626586
- British National Grid easting
- 358,740
- British National Grid northing
- 424,029
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Chorley · E07000118
- Electoral ward
- Clayton East, Brindle & Hoghton · E05013072
- Parish or community
- E04005144
- Westminster constituency
- Chorley · E14001170
- Output area
- E00126493
- Lower layer super output area
- Chorley 002A · E01024921
- Middle layer super output area
- Chorley 002 · E02005190
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
- 42
- Primary
- 30
- Secondary
- 4
- 594 m
Progress School
Other independent special school
- 768 m
Clayton Brook Primary School
Community school
- 801 m
Westwood Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 986
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 401
- Anti social behaviour 165
- Shoplifting 105
- Criminal damage and arson 103
- Other theft 59
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- PR6 8 residents
- 6,542
Age bands in PR6 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 19.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 31.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 25.6%
937 residents
570 residents
1,320 residents
2,113 residents
1,696 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
8
within 5 km straight-line
CLAYTON BROOK SURGERY
59-60 TUNLEY HOLME, BAMBER BRIDGE, CLAYTON BROOK, PRESTON, PR5 8ES
ODS code P81180
738 m
DR DAWOUD'S SURGERY
652 PRESTON ROAD, CLAYTON-LE-WOODS, CHORLEY, PR6 7EH
ODS code P81701
992 m
WHITTLE SURGERY
239 PRESTON ROAD, CLAYTON-LE-WOODS, CHORLEY, PR6 7PY
ODS code P81143
2.1 km
THE RYAN MEDICAL CENTRE
ST. MARYS ROAD, BAMBER BRIDGE, PRESTON, PR5 6JD
ODS code P81082
3.3 km
ROSLEA SURGERY
51 STATION ROAD, BAMBER BRIDGE, PRESTON, PR5 6PE
ODS code P81083
3.5 km
BUCKSHAW VILLAGE HEALTH CENTRE
UNITY PLACE, BUCKSHAW VILLAGE, CHORLEY, PR7 7HZ
ODS code Y02466
4.2 km
LOSTOCK HALL MEDICAL CTR.
DARDSLEY HOUSE, BROWNEDGE ROAD, PRESTON, PR5 5AB
ODS code P81179
4.5 km
CENTRAL PARK SURGERY
BALFOUR STREET, LEYLAND, PR25 2TD
ODS code P81117
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Acrefield
BCT · Clayton Brook
- 0.2 miles
Acrefield
BCT · Clayton Brook
- 0.3 miles
Thorpe Cross
BCT · Thorpe Green
- 0.3 miles
Thorpe Cross
BCT · Thorpe Green
- 0.3 miles
Gough Lane
BCT · Clayton Brook
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Chorley 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
23,911 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 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
986 published events cover 12 months, averaging 82.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 401 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.