Tanhouse & Skelmersdale Town Centre · West Lancashire · England
Updated September 2026
Compare this postcode| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 3, Mercury Way, Skelmersdale, WN8 6BE | 5 December 2025 | £330,000 |
| 105, Mercury Way, Skelmersdale, WN8 6BE | 17 April 2025 | £177,000 |
| 7, Mercury Way, Skelmersdale, WN8 6BE | 25 October 2024 | £170,000 |
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
Holland Moor Primary School
Community school
Moorside Community Primary Academy School
Academy converter
Hillside Community Primary School
Community school
Within 1 mile of this postcode
Census 2021
66 female, 88 male
3,501 residents
2,173 residents
4,789 residents
4,647 residents
2,508 residents
This postcode contained 0.9% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider WN8 6 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
164 ORMSKIRK ROAD, UPHOLLAND, SKELMERSDALE, WN8 0AB
ODS code P81084
732 m
BIRLEYWOOD HEALTH CENTRE, BIRLEYWOOD, SKELMERSDALE, WN8 9BW
ODS code P81208
952 m
HILLSIDE HEALTH CENTRE, TANHOUSE ROAD, SKELMERSDALE, WN8 6DS
ODS code P81039
1.1 km
ASHURST HEALTH CENTRE, LULWORTH, SKELMERSDALE, WN8 6QS
ODS code P81201
2.5 km
SANDY LANE HEALTH CENTRE, SANDY LANE, SKELMERSDALE, WN8 8LA
ODS code P81112
3.8 km
SANDY LANE, SKELMERSDALE, WN8 8LA
ODS code P81136
3.8 km
BRADSHAW STREET, ORRELL, WIGAN, WN5 0AB
ODS code P92008
4.1 km
HOUGHTON LANE, SHEVINGTON, WIGAN, WN6 8ET
ODS code P92017
4.7 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.
Egerton
BCT · Tanhouse
Eavesdale
BCT · Tanhouse
Up Holland Labour Club
BCT · Clay Brow
Colinton
BCT · Clay Brow
Colinton
BCT · Clay Brow
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for West Lancashire 013C, 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
2 of 10
Overall England rank
4,736 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.
The five-year median is £170,000 from 13 recorded sales in WN8 6BE. 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.
43 open schools are in scope, including 28 primary and 7 secondary schools. Holland Moor Primary School is the nearest published school at 273 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
1,874 published events cover 12 months, averaging 156.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 842 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.