Schools
53 open schools are in scope, including 33 primary and 6 secondary schools. Waterloo Lodge is the nearest published school at 879 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
PR6 9GW
Chorley North & Astley · Chorley · England
Updated September 2026
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Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- PR6 9GW
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 September 2024
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- PR
- Postcode district
- PR6
- Postcode sector
- PR6 9
- Latitude
- 53.671112
- Longitude
- -2.621543
- British National Grid easting
- 359,034
- British National Grid northing
- 419,582
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
- E00126554
- Lower layer super output area
- Chorley 006G · E01034339
- 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
- 53
- Primary
- 33
- Secondary
- 6
- 879 m
Waterloo Lodge
Other independent special school
- 1.0 km
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Chorley
Voluntary aided school
- 1.2 km
St Peter's CofE Primary School Chorley
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,132
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 525
- Anti social behaviour 196
- Criminal damage and arson 79
- Shoplifting 73
- Other theft 64
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- PR6 9 residents
- 8,346
Age bands in PR6 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 21.9%
1,422 residents
747 residents
2,021 residents
2,590 residents
1,900 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.
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+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- 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
11
within 5 km straight-line
GAB HEALTHCARE
32-34 ST THOMAS'S ROAD, CHORLEY, PR7 1HR
ODS code P81127
2.2 km
DR JACOBS SURGERY
COLLISON AVENUE, CHORLEY, PR7 2PA
ODS code Y00347
2.2 km
THE CHORLEY SURGERY
24-26 GILLIBRAND STREET, CHORLEY, PR7 2EJ
ODS code P81038
2.3 km
LIBRARY HOUSE SURGERY
AVONDALE ROAD, CHORLEY, PR7 2AD
ODS code P81044
2.4 km
REGENT HOUSE SURGERY
21 REGENT ROAD, CHORLEY, PR7 2DH
ODS code P81062
2.5 km
BUCKSHAW VILLAGE HEALTH CENTRE
UNITY PLACE, BUCKSHAW VILLAGE, CHORLEY, PR7 7HZ
ODS code Y02466
2.5 km
WHITTLE SURGERY
239 PRESTON ROAD, CLAYTON-LE-WOODS, CHORLEY, PR6 7PY
ODS code P81143
2.8 km
THE EUXTON MEDICAL CENTRE
ST. MARYS GATE, EUXTON, CHORLEY, PR7 6AH
ODS code P81171
3.7 km
DR DAWOUD'S SURGERY
652 PRESTON ROAD, CLAYTON-LE-WOODS, CHORLEY, PR6 7EH
ODS code P81701
4.6 km
CLAYTON BROOK SURGERY
59-60 TUNLEY HOLME, BAMBER BRIDGE, CLAYTON BROOK, PRESTON, PR5 8ES
ODS code P81180
4.7 km
WITHNELL HEALTH CENTRE
RAILWAY ROAD, WITHNELL, CHORLEY, PR6 8UA
ODS code P81010
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Knowles Way
BCT · Great Knowley
- 0.1 miles
Knowles Way
BCT · Great Knowley
- 0.2 miles
Guildford Avenue
BCT · Great Knowley
- 0.2 miles
Guildford Avenue
BCT · Great Knowley
- 0.3 miles
Merton Grove
BCT · Great Knowley
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Chorley 006G, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
13,115 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
1,132 published events cover 12 months, averaging 94.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 525 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.