Schools
50 open schools are in scope, including 32 primary and 6 secondary schools. Buckshaw Primary School is the nearest published school at 321 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
PR7 1ZU
Chorley North & Astley · Chorley · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- PR7 1ZU
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 November 2003
- Terminated
- 1 July 2004
- Postcode area
- PR
- Postcode district
- PR7
- Postcode sector
- PR7 1
- Latitude
- 53.662647
- Longitude
- -2.641773
- British National Grid easting
- 357,689
- British National Grid northing
- 418,652
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
- E00126483
- 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
- 50
- Primary
- 32
- Secondary
- 6
- 321 m
Buckshaw Primary School
Community school
- 356 m
Oliver House School
Other independent special school
- 422 m
St Michael's Church of England High School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,436
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,048
- Anti social behaviour 396
- Shoplifting 187
- Criminal damage and arson 172
- Public order 171
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.
GP practices
10
within 5 km straight-line
GAB HEALTHCARE
32-34 ST THOMAS'S ROAD, CHORLEY, PR7 1HR
ODS code P81127
1.1 km
DR JACOBS SURGERY
COLLISON AVENUE, CHORLEY, PR7 2PA
ODS code Y00347
1.1 km
THE CHORLEY SURGERY
24-26 GILLIBRAND STREET, CHORLEY, PR7 2EJ
ODS code P81038
1.4 km
LIBRARY HOUSE SURGERY
AVONDALE ROAD, CHORLEY, PR7 2AD
ODS code P81044
1.4 km
REGENT HOUSE SURGERY
21 REGENT ROAD, CHORLEY, PR7 2DH
ODS code P81062
1.4 km
BUCKSHAW VILLAGE HEALTH CENTRE
UNITY PLACE, BUCKSHAW VILLAGE, CHORLEY, PR7 7HZ
ODS code Y02466
2.1 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
3.5 km
SANDY LANE SURGERY
SANDY LANE, LEYLAND, PR25 2EB
ODS code P81076
4.6 km
COPPULL MEDICAL PRACTICE
5 ACRESWOOD CLOSE, COPPULL, CHORLEY, PR7 5EN
ODS code P81033
5.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Deer Fold
BCT · Astley Village
- 0.1 miles
Deer Fold
BCT · Astley Village
- 0.1 miles
Broadfields
BCT · Astley Village
- 0.2 miles
Broadfields
BCT · Astley Village
- 0.2 miles
Buckshaw CPS
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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
2,436 published events cover 12 months, averaging 203 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,048 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.