Schools
54 open schools are in scope, including 34 primary and 7 secondary schools. Buckshaw Primary School is the nearest published school at 601 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
PR7 1DH
Chorley North & Astley · Chorley · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- PR7 1DH
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 August 1993
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- PR
- Postcode district
- PR7
- Postcode sector
- PR7 1
- Latitude
- 53.666765
- Longitude
- -2.641351
- British National Grid easting
- 357,721
- British National Grid northing
- 419,110
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
- E04005142
- Westminster constituency
- Chorley · E14001170
- Output area
- E00126488
- Lower layer super output area
- Chorley 008B · E01024920
- Middle layer super output area
- Chorley 008 · E02005196
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 PR7
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 54
- Primary
- 34
- Secondary
- 7
- 601 m
Buckshaw Primary School
Community school
- 739 m
Oliver House School
Other independent special school
- 747 m
St Michael's Church of England High School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,468
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 642
- Anti social behaviour 261
- Criminal damage and arson 120
- Other theft 89
- Public order 86
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- PR7 1 residents
- 6,868
Age bands in PR7 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 26.1%
1,112 residents
626 residents
1,706 residents
1,951 residents
1,908 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
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
1.6 km
BUCKSHAW VILLAGE HEALTH CENTRE
UNITY PLACE, BUCKSHAW VILLAGE, CHORLEY, PR7 7HZ
ODS code Y02466
1.7 km
THE CHORLEY SURGERY
24-26 GILLIBRAND STREET, CHORLEY, PR7 2EJ
ODS code P81038
1.8 km
LIBRARY HOUSE SURGERY
AVONDALE ROAD, CHORLEY, PR7 2AD
ODS code P81044
1.9 km
REGENT HOUSE SURGERY
21 REGENT ROAD, CHORLEY, PR7 2DH
ODS code P81062
1.9 km
THE EUXTON MEDICAL CENTRE
ST. MARYS GATE, EUXTON, CHORLEY, PR7 6AH
ODS code P81171
2.4 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
4.3 km
CENTRAL PARK SURGERY
BALFOUR STREET, LEYLAND, PR25 2TD
ODS code P81117
4.8 km
DR DAWOUD'S SURGERY
652 PRESTON ROAD, CLAYTON-LE-WOODS, CHORLEY, PR6 7EH
ODS code P81701
4.9 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Buckshaw Hall Close
BCT · Astley Village
- 0.1 miles
Buckshaw Hall Close
BCT · Astley Village
- 0.1 miles
Broadfields
BCT · Astley Village
- 0.1 miles
Strawberry Fields
BCT · Chorley Hospital
- 0.1 miles
Broadfields
BCT · Astley Village
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Chorley 008B, 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
26,171 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
1,468 published events cover 12 months, averaging 122.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 642 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.