Property market
The five-year median is £587,500 from 1 recorded sale in WN8 7RA. 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 7RA
Rural North East · West Lancashire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Wigan
- Ward
- Rural North East
- Local authority
- West Lancashire
- Constituency
- West Lancashire
- Postcode district
- WN8
- Postcode sector
- WN8 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WN8 7RA
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WN
- Postcode district
- WN8
- Postcode sector
- WN8 7
- Latitude
- 53.576785
- Longitude
- -2.767639
- British National Grid easting
- 349,269
- British National Grid northing
- 409,182
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
- E04005304
- Westminster constituency
- West Lancashire · E14001577
- Output area
- E00129452
- Lower layer super output area
- West Lancashire 005A · E01025510
- 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 WN8
Property
11 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Oak House, Higher Lane, Dalton, Wigan, WN8 7RA | 27 November 2025 | £587,500 |
| Rockhaven, Higher Lane, Dalton, Wigan, WN8 7RA | 17 June 2019 | £1,000,000 |
| High Lees, Higher Lane, Dalton, Wigan, WN8 7RA | 14 July 2015 | £625,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 36
- Primary
- 27
- Secondary
- 3
- 997 m
Dalton St Michael's Church of England Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 1.2 km
Maharishi Free School
Free schools
- 1.4 km
St James' Catholic Primary School, Skelmersdale
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 189
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 86
- Anti social behaviour 40
- Criminal damage and arson 16
- Public order 11
- Other crime 7
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 39
- Postcode households
- 17
- Residents per household
- 2.3
- WN8 7 residents
- 4,294
21 female, 18 male
Age bands in WN8 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 16.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 31.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 30.1%
550 residents
355 residents
693 residents
1,284 residents
1,240 residents
This postcode contained 0.9% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider WN8 7 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
8
within 5 km
ASHURST PRIMARY CARE
ASHURST HEALTH CENTRE, LULWORTH, SKELMERSDALE, WN8 6QS
ODS code P81201
1.5 km
PARBOLD SURGERY
4 THE GREEN, PARBOLD, WIGAN, WN8 7DN
ODS code P81096
1.8 km
MANOR PRIMARY CARE
HILLSIDE HEALTH CENTRE, TANHOUSE ROAD, SKELMERSDALE, WN8 6DS
ODS code P81039
3.0 km
BEACON PRIMARY CARE
SANDY LANE HEALTH CENTRE, SANDY LANE, SKELMERSDALE, WN8 8LA
ODS code P81112
3.9 km
DR A BISARYA
SANDY LANE, SKELMERSDALE, WN8 8LA
ODS code P81136
3.9 km
EXCEL PRIMARY CARE
BIRLEYWOOD HEALTH CENTRE, BIRLEYWOOD, SKELMERSDALE, WN8 9BW
ODS code P81208
4.3 km
HALL GREEN SURGERY
164 ORMSKIRK ROAD, UPHOLLAND, SKELMERSDALE, WN8 0AB
ODS code P81084
4.4 km
SHEVINGTON SURGERY
HOUGHTON LANE, SHEVINGTON, WIGAN, WN6 8ET
ODS code P92017
4.5 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
- 0.7 miles
Beacon Lane
BCT · Ashurst
- 0.7 miles
Beacon Lane
BCT · Ashurst
- 0.7 miles
Ash Brow
BCT · Parbold
- 0.7 miles
Stocks Tavern
BCT · Parbold
- 0.8 miles
Stocks Tavern
BCT · Parbold
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for West Lancashire 005A, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
29,961 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
36 open schools are in scope, including 27 primary and 3 secondary schools. Dalton St Michael's Church of England Primary School is the nearest published school at 997 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
189 published events cover 12 months, averaging 15.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 86 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.