Schools
34 open schools are in scope, including 27 primary and 2 secondary schools. Cobbs Brow School is the nearest published school at 246 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WN8 6YD
Skelmersdale North · West Lancashire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Skelmersdale North
- Local authority
- West Lancashire
- Constituency
- West Lancashire
- Postcode district
- WN8
- Postcode sector
- WN8 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WN8 6YD
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 February 1990
- Terminated
- 1 December 1991
- Postcode area
- WN
- Postcode district
- WN8
- Postcode sector
- WN8 6
- Latitude
- 53.560694
- Longitude
- -2.778957
- British National Grid easting
- 348,500
- British National Grid northing
- 407,400
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- West Lancashire · E07000127
- Electoral ward
- Skelmersdale North · E05014939
- Parish or community
- E43000101
- Westminster constituency
- West Lancashire · E14001577
- Output area
- E00129258
- Lower layer super output area
- West Lancashire 009B · E01025469
- Middle layer super output area
- West Lancashire 009 · E02005312
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
Schools
Within 5 km of this postcode
- Open schools
- 34
- Primary
- 27
- Secondary
- 2
- 246 m
Cobbs Brow School
Community school
- 626 m
St James' Catholic Primary School, Skelmersdale
Voluntary aided school
- 857 m
Lathom High School : A Technology College
Foundation school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,481
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 562
- Anti social behaviour 273
- Criminal damage and arson 150
- Other theft 91
- Public order 83
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WN8 6 residents
- 17,502
Age bands in WN8 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.9%
- 3,501 residents
- Age 15 to 24
- 12.3%
- 2,173 residents
- Age 25 to 44
- 27.2%
- 4,789 residents
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.4%
- 4,647 residents
- Age 65 and over
- 14.2%
- 2,508 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
7
within 5 km straight-line
ASHURST PRIMARY CARE
ASHURST HEALTH CENTRE, LULWORTH, SKELMERSDALE, WN8 6QS
ODS code P81201
500 m
MANOR PRIMARY CARE
HILLSIDE HEALTH CENTRE, TANHOUSE ROAD, SKELMERSDALE, WN8 6DS
ODS code P81039
1.5 km
BEACON PRIMARY CARE
SANDY LANE HEALTH CENTRE, SANDY LANE, SKELMERSDALE, WN8 8LA
ODS code P81112
2.2 km
DR A BISARYA
SANDY LANE, SKELMERSDALE, WN8 8LA
ODS code P81136
2.2 km
EXCEL PRIMARY CARE
BIRLEYWOOD HEALTH CENTRE, BIRLEYWOOD, SKELMERSDALE, WN8 9BW
ODS code P81208
2.8 km
HALL GREEN SURGERY
164 ORMSKIRK ROAD, UPHOLLAND, SKELMERSDALE, WN8 0AB
ODS code P81084
3.3 km
PARBOLD SURGERY
4 THE GREEN, PARBOLD, WIGAN, WN8 7DN
ODS code P81096
3.6 km
Nearby transport
- 35 m
Toby Inn
BCT · Ashurst
- 56 m
Toby Inn
BCT · Ashurst
- 130 m
Manfield
BCT · Ashurst
- 155 m
Manfield
BCT · Ashurst
- 273 m
Leeswood
BCT · Ashurst
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for West Lancashire 009B, 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
3 of 10
Overall England rank
9,949 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 of 10
- Living environment
- 10 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
1,481 published events cover 12 months, averaging 123 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 562 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.