Property market
The five-year median is £260,000 from 1 recorded sale in WN8 0DZ. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for West Lancashire is £231,816 in June 2026, up 4.3% year on year.
WN8 0DZ
Up Holland · West Lancashire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Skelmersdale
- Ward
- Up Holland
- Local authority
- West Lancashire
- Constituency
- West Lancashire
- Postcode district
- WN8
- Postcode sector
- WN8 0
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WN8 0DZ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 July 2003
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WN
- Postcode district
- WN8
- Postcode sector
- WN8 0
- Latitude
- 53.538925
- Longitude
- -2.730363
- British National Grid easting
- 351,694
- British National Grid northing
- 404,944
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- West Lancashire · E07000127
- Electoral ward
- Up Holland · E05014943
- Parish or community
- E04005316
- Westminster constituency
- West Lancashire · E14001577
- Output area
- E00129587
- Lower layer super output area
- West Lancashire 015D · E01025537
- Middle layer super output area
- West Lancashire 015 · E02005318
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 WN8
Property
29 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 1, Galloway Drive, Upholland, Skelmersdale, WN8 0DZ | 8 October 2021 | £260,000 |
| 12, Galloway Drive, Upholland, Skelmersdale, WN8 0DZ | 26 July 2021 | £200,000 |
| 8, Galloway Drive, Upholland, Skelmersdale, WN8 0DZ | 5 March 2021 | £282,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 48
- Primary
- 34
- Secondary
- 7
- 469 m
St Thomas the Martyr Voluntary Aided Church of England Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 1.2 km
St Teresa's Catholic Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 1.3 km
Up Holland High School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 601
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 273
- Anti social behaviour 92
- Criminal damage and arson 51
- Public order 28
- Other crime 27
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 41
- Postcode households
- 15
- Residents per household
- 2.7
- WN8 0 residents
- 6,511
24 female, 17 male
Age bands in WN8 0
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 20.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 24.1%
920 residents
626 residents
1,249 residents
1,847 residents
1,472 residents
This postcode contained 0.6% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider WN8 0 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.
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
12
within 5 km
HALL GREEN SURGERY
164 ORMSKIRK ROAD, UPHOLLAND, SKELMERSDALE, WN8 0AB
ODS code P81084
756 m
EXCEL PRIMARY CARE
BIRLEYWOOD HEALTH CENTRE, BIRLEYWOOD, SKELMERSDALE, WN8 9BW
ODS code P81208
1.9 km
MANOR PRIMARY CARE
HILLSIDE HEALTH CENTRE, TANHOUSE ROAD, SKELMERSDALE, WN8 6DS
ODS code P81039
2.6 km
BRADSHAW MEDICAL CENTRE
BRADSHAW STREET, ORRELL, WIGAN, WN5 0AB
ODS code P92008
2.8 km
ASHURST PRIMARY CARE
ASHURST HEALTH CENTRE, LULWORTH, SKELMERSDALE, WN8 6QS
ODS code P81201
3.9 km
NEWTOWN MEDICAL PRACTICE
PEMBERTON PC RESOURCE CTR, SHERWOOD DRIVE, WIGAN, WN5 9QX
ODS code P92021
4.0 km
PEMBERTON SURGERY
SHERWOOD DRIVE, PEMBERTON, WIGAN, WN5 9QX
ODS code P92019
4.0 km
MARSH GREEN MEDICAL PRACTICE
HARROW ROAD, MARSH GREEN, WIGAN, WN5 0QL
ODS code Y02885
4.3 km
SHEVINGTON SURGERY
HOUGHTON LANE, SHEVINGTON, WIGAN, WN6 8ET
ODS code P92017
4.4 km
SAXENA L
HOLMES HOUSE AVENUE, WINSTANLEY, WIGAN, WN3 6JN
ODS code P92038
4.5 km
EXTENDED ACCESS
BEVAN HSE, 17 BEECHAM COURT, SMITHY BROOK ROAD, WIGAN, WN3 6PR
ODS code Y05088
4.9 km
WIGAN BOROUGH SPECIALIST SERVICES
WIGAN GP ALLIANCE LLP, BEVAN HOUSE, 17 BEECHAM COURT, WIGAN, WN3 6PR
ODS code Y07697
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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Wellcross Road
BCT · Hall Green
- 0.1 miles
Wellcross Road
BCT · Hall Green
- 0.2 miles
Ormskirk Road
BCT · Hall Green
- 0.2 miles
Ormskirk Road
BCT · Hall Green
- 0.2 miles
Victoria Hotel
BCT · Hall Green
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for West Lancashire 015D, 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
25,685 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
- 0
- 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
Schools
48 open schools are in scope, including 34 primary and 7 secondary schools. St Thomas the Martyr Voluntary Aided Church of England Primary School is the nearest published school at 469 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
601 published events cover 12 months, averaging 50.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 273 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.