Schools
40 open schools are in scope, including 25 primary and 6 secondary schools. Anderton Primary School is the nearest published school at 814 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
PR6 9QL
Chorley South East & Heath Charnock · Chorley · England
Updated September 2026
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Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- PR6 9QL
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 September 1991
- Terminated
- 1 December 1998
- Postcode area
- PR
- Postcode district
- PR6
- Postcode sector
- PR6 9
- Latitude
- 53.624981
- Longitude
- -2.597339
- British National Grid easting
- 360,590
- British National Grid northing
- 414,436
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
Explore PR6
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 40
- Primary
- 25
- Secondary
- 6
- 814 m
Anderton Primary School
Community school
- 995 m
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Anderton
Voluntary aided school
- 1.0 km
Adlington St Paul's Church of England Primary School
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 370
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 157
- Anti social behaviour 77
- Criminal damage and arson 31
- Other theft 22
- Shoplifting 17
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.
GP practices
10
within 5 km straight-line
ADLINGTON MEDICAL CENTRE
22-24 BABYLON LANE, ANDERTON, CHORLEY, PR6 9NW
ODS code P81740
720 m
GRANVILLE HOUSE MED CTRE
GRANVILLE STREET, ADLINGTON, CHORLEY, PR6 9PY
ODS code P81154
1.1 km
THE CHORLEY SURGERY
24-26 GILLIBRAND STREET, CHORLEY, PR7 2EJ
ODS code P81038
3.7 km
LIBRARY HOUSE SURGERY
AVONDALE ROAD, CHORLEY, PR7 2AD
ODS code P81044
3.7 km
REGENT HOUSE SURGERY
21 REGENT ROAD, CHORLEY, PR7 2DH
ODS code P81062
3.8 km
DR JACOBS SURGERY
COLLISON AVENUE, CHORLEY, PR7 2PA
ODS code Y00347
4.0 km
GAB HEALTHCARE
32-34 ST THOMAS'S ROAD, CHORLEY, PR7 1HR
ODS code P81127
4.1 km
COPPULL MEDICAL PRACTICE
5 ACRESWOOD CLOSE, COPPULL, CHORLEY, PR7 5EN
ODS code P81033
4.4 km
PIKE VIEW, DR MALHOTRA & PARTNERS
HORWICH HEALTH & WELLBEING HUB, VICTORIA ROAD, HORWICH, BOLTON, BL6 5PY
ODS code P82006
4.7 km
KILDONAN HOUSE
RAMSBOTTOM ROAD, HORWICH, BOLTON, BL6 5NW
ODS code P82003
4.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.3 miles
Millbrook Row
BCT · Adlington
- 0.3 miles
Millbrook Row
BCT · Adlington
- 0.4 miles
Cardwell Arms
BCT · Adlington
- 0.4 miles
Cardwell Arms
BCT · Adlington
- 0.4 miles
White Horse
BCT · Heath Charnock
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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
370 published events cover 12 months, averaging 30.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 157 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.