Property market
The five-year median is £262,995 from 1 recorded sale in WN8 8FG. 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 8FG
Rural South · West Lancashire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Skelmersdale
- Ward
- Rural South
- Local authority
- West Lancashire
- Constituency
- West Lancashire
- Postcode district
- WN8
- Postcode sector
- WN8 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WN8 8FG
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 July 2024
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WN
- Postcode district
- WN8
- Postcode sector
- WN8 8
- Latitude
- 53.553358
- Longitude
- -2.811502
- British National Grid easting
- 346,335
- British National Grid northing
- 406,608
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- West Lancashire · E07000127
- Electoral ward
- Rural South · E05014937
- Parish or community
- E04005320
- Westminster constituency
- West Lancashire · E14001577
- Output area
- E00129301
- Lower layer super output area
- West Lancashire 008A · E01025479
- Middle layer super output area
- West Lancashire 008 · E02005311
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
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 2, Goose Brook Drive, Lathom, Skelmersdale, WN8 8FG | 19 July 2024 | £262,995 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 34
- Primary
- 23
- Secondary
- 4
- 442 m
West Lancashire Community High School
Community special school
- 497 m
Brookfield Park Primary School
Community school
- 563 m
Kingsbury Primary Special School
Community special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 813
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 328
- Anti social behaviour 153
- Criminal damage and arson 79
- Other theft 53
- Public order 43
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WN8 8 residents
- 10,445
Age bands in WN8 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 12.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 19.9%
1,604 residents
1,213 residents
2,413 residents
2,687 residents
1,972 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.
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
7
within 5 km
BEACON PRIMARY CARE
SANDY LANE HEALTH CENTRE, SANDY LANE, SKELMERSDALE, WN8 8LA
ODS code P81112
474 m
DR A BISARYA
SANDY LANE, SKELMERSDALE, WN8 8LA
ODS code P81136
474 m
ASHURST PRIMARY CARE
ASHURST HEALTH CENTRE, LULWORTH, SKELMERSDALE, WN8 6QS
ODS code P81201
2.8 km
MANOR PRIMARY CARE
HILLSIDE HEALTH CENTRE, TANHOUSE ROAD, SKELMERSDALE, WN8 6DS
ODS code P81039
3.1 km
EXCEL PRIMARY CARE
BIRLEYWOOD HEALTH CENTRE, BIRLEYWOOD, SKELMERSDALE, WN8 9BW
ODS code P81208
3.9 km
HALL GREEN SURGERY
164 ORMSKIRK ROAD, UPHOLLAND, SKELMERSDALE, WN8 0AB
ODS code P81084
4.9 km
PARKGATE SURGERY
28 ST. HELENS ROAD, ORMSKIRK, L39 4QR
ODS code P81041
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
School Lane
BCT · Pennylands
- 0.2 miles
School Lane
BCT · Pennylands
- 0.2 miles
Old Skelmersdale War Memorial
BCT · Blaguegate
- 0.2 miles
Wardens Club
BCT · Blaguegate
- 0.2 miles
Wardens Club
BCT · Blaguegate
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for West Lancashire 008A, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
20,004 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 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
Schools
34 open schools are in scope, including 23 primary and 4 secondary schools. West Lancashire Community High School is the nearest published school at 442 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
813 published events cover 12 months, averaging 67.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 328 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.