Skelmersdale South · West Lancashire · England
Updated September 2026
Compare this postcodeWithin 3.1 miles of this postcode
Bishop Martin Church of England Primary School
Academy converter
St Francis of Assisi Catholic Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Hope High School
Community special school
Within 1 mile of this postcode
Census 2021
21 female, 27 male
1,941 residents
1,200 residents
2,601 residents
2,464 residents
1,431 residents
This postcode contained 0.6% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider WN8 9 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
BIRLEYWOOD HEALTH CENTRE, BIRLEYWOOD, SKELMERSDALE, WN8 9BW
ODS code P81208
166 m
164 ORMSKIRK ROAD, UPHOLLAND, SKELMERSDALE, WN8 0AB
ODS code P81084
1.3 km
HILLSIDE HEALTH CENTRE, TANHOUSE ROAD, SKELMERSDALE, WN8 6DS
ODS code P81039
1.4 km
ASHURST HEALTH CENTRE, LULWORTH, SKELMERSDALE, WN8 6QS
ODS code P81201
3.0 km
SANDY LANE HEALTH CENTRE, SANDY LANE, SKELMERSDALE, WN8 8LA
ODS code P81112
3.4 km
SANDY LANE, SKELMERSDALE, WN8 8LA
ODS code P81136
3.4 km
17 HIGHER LANE, RAINFORD, ST HELENS, WA11 8AZ
ODS code N83041
4.3 km
32 CHURCH ROAD, RAINFORD, ST. HELENS, WA11 8HJ
ODS code N83049
4.6 km
BRADSHAW STREET, ORRELL, WIGAN, WN5 0AB
ODS code P92008
4.8 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.
Bearncroft
BCT · Digmoor
Shopping Parade
BCT · Digmoor
Bearncroft
BCT · Digmoor
Birkrig
BCT · Digmoor
Beechtrees
BCT · Digmoor
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for West Lancashire 014B, 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
1 of 10
Overall England rank
1,219 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.
43 open schools are in scope, including 28 primary and 7 secondary schools. Bishop Martin Church of England Primary School is the nearest published school at 142 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
1,549 published events cover 12 months, averaging 129.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 690 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.