Schools
54 open schools are in scope, including 37 primary and 9 secondary schools. Fir Tree College is the nearest published school at 0.8 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WN6 9AU
Rural North East · West Lancashire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Rural North East
- Local authority
- West Lancashire
- Constituency
- West Lancashire
- Postcode district
- WN6
- Postcode sector
- WN6 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WN6 9AU
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1993
- Terminated
- 1 June 1996
- Postcode area
- WN
- Postcode district
- WN6
- Postcode sector
- WN6 9
- Latitude
- 53.572729
- Longitude
- -2.723303
- British National Grid easting
- 352,200
- British National Grid northing
- 408,700
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- West Lancashire · E07000127
- Electoral ward
- Rural North East · E05014936
- Parish or community
- E04005317
- Westminster constituency
- West Lancashire · E14001577
- Output area
- E00129600
- Lower layer super output area
- West Lancashire 005E · E01025539
- Middle layer super output area
- West Lancashire 005 · E02005308
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 WN6
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 54
- Primary
- 37
- Secondary
- 9
- 1.2 km
Fir Tree College
Special post 16 institution
- 1.5 km
Appley Bridge All Saints Church of England Primary Academy
Academy converter
- 1.6 km
Upholland Roby Mill CofE Voluntary Aided Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 60
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 23
- Anti social behaviour 12
- Criminal damage and arson 12
- Burglary 4
- Other crime 3
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WN6 9 residents
- 5,338
Age bands in WN6 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 18.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 31%
- Age 65 and over
- 27.6%
707 residents
446 residents
909 residents
1,545 residents
1,374 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
9
within 5 km straight-line
SHEVINGTON SURGERY
HOUGHTON LANE, SHEVINGTON, WIGAN, WN6 8ET
ODS code P92017
1.6 km
ASHURST PRIMARY CARE
ASHURST HEALTH CENTRE, LULWORTH, SKELMERSDALE, WN8 6QS
ODS code P81201
3.4 km
MANOR PRIMARY CARE
HILLSIDE HEALTH CENTRE, TANHOUSE ROAD, SKELMERSDALE, WN8 6DS
ODS code P81039
3.8 km
HALL GREEN SURGERY
164 ORMSKIRK ROAD, UPHOLLAND, SKELMERSDALE, WN8 0AB
ODS code P81084
3.8 km
PARBOLD SURGERY
4 THE GREEN, PARBOLD, WIGAN, WN8 7DN
ODS code P81096
4.0 km
STANDISH MEDICAL PRACTICE
49 HIGH STREET, STANDISH, WIGAN, WN6 0HD
ODS code P92014
4.4 km
EXCEL PRIMARY CARE
BIRLEYWOOD HEALTH CENTRE, BIRLEYWOOD, SKELMERSDALE, WN8 9BW
ODS code P81208
4.5 km
BRADSHAW MEDICAL CENTRE
BRADSHAW STREET, ORRELL, WIGAN, WN5 0AB
ODS code P92008
4.5 km
MARSH GREEN MEDICAL PRACTICE
HARROW ROAD, MARSH GREEN, WIGAN, WN5 0QL
ODS code Y02885
4.5 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Speakmans Drive
BCT · Appley Bridge
- 0.1 miles
Speakmans Drive
BCT · Appley Bridge
- 0.1 miles
Lees Lane
BCT · Holland Lees
- 0.1 miles
Lees Lane
BCT · Holland Lees
- 0.2 miles
Heyes Street
BCT · Appley Bridge
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for West Lancashire 005E, 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
26,669 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 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
60 published events cover 12 months, averaging 5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 23 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.