Schools
39 open schools are in scope, including 23 primary and 5 secondary schools. Albany Academy is the nearest published school at 1.1 km.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
PR6 9DP
Chorley South East & Heath Charnock · Chorley · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- PR6 9DP
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- PR
- Postcode district
- PR6
- Postcode sector
- PR6 9
- Latitude
- 53.642941
- Longitude
- -2.602539
- British National Grid easting
- 360,263
- British National Grid northing
- 416,437
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Chorley · E07000118
- Electoral ward
- Chorley South East & Heath Charnock · E05013070
- Parish or community
- E04005153
- Westminster constituency
- Chorley · E14001170
- Output area
- E00126751
- Lower layer super output area
- Chorley 014E · E01024973
- Middle layer super output area
- Chorley 014 · E02005202
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
9 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 1, Back Lane, Heath Charnock, Chorley, PR6 9DP | 24 July 2020 | £209,950 |
| 3, Back Lane, Heath Charnock, Chorley, PR6 9DP | 5 December 2011 | £135,000 |
| 2, Back Lane, Heath Charnock, Chorley, PR6 9DP | 28 October 2005 | £190,000 |
Schools
Within 5 km of this postcode
- Open schools
- 39
- Primary
- 23
- Secondary
- 5
- 1.1 km
Albany Academy
Academy converter
- 1.2 km
St George's Church of England Primary School, Chorley
Voluntary aided school
- 1.4 km
Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School, Chorley
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 642
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 298
- Anti social behaviour 134
- Criminal damage and arson 62
- Other theft 27
- Public order 27
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 14
- 6 female, 8 male
- Postcode households
- 7
- Residents per household
- 2.0
- PR6 9 residents
- 8,346
Age bands in PR6 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.4%
- 1,422 residents
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.6%
- 747 residents
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.3%
- 2,021 residents
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.8%
- 2,590 residents
- Age 65 and over
- 21.9%
- 1,900 residents
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider PR6 9 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+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 85.7%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 85.7%
- Gigabit-capable
- 85.7%
- 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, coverage at January 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
8
within 5 km straight-line
THE CHORLEY SURGERY
24-26 GILLIBRAND STREET, CHORLEY, PR7 2EJ
ODS code P81038
2.2 km
LIBRARY HOUSE SURGERY
AVONDALE ROAD, CHORLEY, PR7 2AD
ODS code P81044
2.2 km
REGENT HOUSE SURGERY
21 REGENT ROAD, CHORLEY, PR7 2DH
ODS code P81062
2.3 km
DR JACOBS SURGERY
COLLISON AVENUE, CHORLEY, PR7 2PA
ODS code Y00347
2.5 km
GAB HEALTHCARE
32-34 ST THOMAS'S ROAD, CHORLEY, PR7 1HR
ODS code P81127
2.5 km
ADLINGTON MEDICAL CENTRE
22-24 BABYLON LANE, ANDERTON, CHORLEY, PR6 9NW
ODS code P81740
2.7 km
GRANVILLE HOUSE MED CTRE
GRANVILLE STREET, ADLINGTON, CHORLEY, PR6 9PY
ODS code P81154
3.1 km
COPPULL MEDICAL PRACTICE
5 ACRESWOOD CLOSE, COPPULL, CHORLEY, PR7 5EN
ODS code P81033
4.7 km
Nearby transport
- 362 m
Flag Lane
BCT · Limbrick
- 532 m
Spinners Arms
BCT · Cowling
- 868 m
Crosse Hall Street
BCT · Cowling
- 1.0 km
Hut Lane
BCT · Limbrick
- 1.1 km
Yarrow Bridge
BCT · Bolton Road
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Chorley 014E, 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
24,970 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 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.
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
- 1
- 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
Recorded crime
642 published events cover 12 months, averaging 54 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 298 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.