Rural North East · West Lancashire · England
Updated September 2026
Compare this postcodeWithin 3.1 miles of this postcode
Wrightington Mossy Lea Primary School
Community school
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Wrightington
Voluntary aided school
My Life Learning
Special post 16 institution
Within 1 mile of this postcode
Census 2021
12 female, 11 male
707 residents
446 residents
909 residents
1,545 residents
1,374 residents
This postcode contained 0.4% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider WN6 9 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
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.
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
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.
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within 5 km
5 ACRESWOOD CLOSE, COPPULL, CHORLEY, PR7 5EN
ODS code P81033
2.8 km
49 HIGH STREET, STANDISH, WIGAN, WN6 0HD
ODS code P92014
3.6 km
HOUGHTON LANE, SHEVINGTON, WIGAN, WN6 8ET
ODS code P92017
3.7 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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Mossy Lea Primary School
BCT · Mossy Lea
Mossy Lea Primary School
BCT · Mossy Lea
Mossfields
BCT · Mossy Lea
Mossfields
BCT · Mossy Lea
Diglake Farm
BCT · Mossy Lea
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for West Lancashire 005D, 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
25,941 of 33,755
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.
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.
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.
27 open schools are in scope, including 21 primary and 2 secondary schools. Wrightington Mossy Lea Primary School is the nearest published school at 131 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
37 published events cover 12 months, averaging 3.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 16 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.