Schools
23 open schools are in scope, including 19 primary and 2 secondary schools. Eccleston Primary School is the nearest published school at 76 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
PR7 5WA
Eccleston, Heskin & Charnock Richard · Chorley · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Chorley
- Constituency
- South Ribble
- Postcode district
- PR7
- Postcode sector
- PR7 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- PR7 5WA
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 February 1990
- Terminated
- 1 December 1996
- Postcode area
- PR
- Postcode district
- PR7
- Postcode sector
- PR7 5
- Latitude
- 53.647306
- Longitude
- -2.727604
- British National Grid easting
- 352,000
- British National Grid northing
- 417,000
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Chorley · E07000118
- Electoral ward
- Eccleston, Heskin & Charnock Richard · E05013076
- Parish or community
- E04005150
- Westminster constituency
- South Ribble · E14001491
- Output area
- E00126707
- Lower layer super output area
- Chorley 011C · E01024963
- Middle layer super output area
- Chorley 011 · E02005199
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
- 23
- Primary
- 19
- Secondary
- 2
- 76 m
Eccleston Primary School
Community school
- 397 m
Eccleston St Mary's Church of England Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 2.2 km
Rainbow Hub School
Other independent special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 169
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 81
- Anti social behaviour 34
- Other theft 13
- Other crime 9
- Criminal damage and arson 9
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- PR7 5 residents
- 11,432
Age bands in PR7 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 21.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 24.1%
1,849 residents
1,058 residents
2,453 residents
3,286 residents
2,739 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
5
within 5 km straight-line
THE VILLAGE SURGERIES CROSTON&ECCLESTON
OUT LANE, CROSTON, LEYLAND, PR26 9HJ
ODS code P81655
3.4 km
THE EUXTON MEDICAL CENTRE
ST. MARYS GATE, EUXTON, CHORLEY, PR7 6AH
ODS code P81171
4.1 km
MOSS SIDE MEDICAL CENTRE
16 MOSS SIDE WAY, LEYLAND, PR26 7XL
ODS code P81186
4.8 km
STATION SURGERY
LEYLAND SURGERY, WEST PADDOCK, LEYLAND, PR25 1HR
ODS code P81741
4.9 km
WORDEN MEDICAL CENTRE
WEST PADDOCK, LEYLAND, PR25 1HR
ODS code P81057
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Marsden Close
BCT · Eccleston
- 0.0 miles
Doctors Lane
BCT · Eccleston
- 0.1 miles
Lawrence Lane
BCT · Eccleston
- 0.1 miles
Primary School
BCT · Eccleston
- 0.1 miles
Towngate
BCT · Eccleston
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Chorley 011C, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
28,056 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
169 published events cover 12 months, averaging 14.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 81 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.