Schools
51 open schools are in scope, including 36 primary and 7 secondary schools. Hope High School is the nearest published school at 822 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WN8 9PU
Up Holland · West Lancashire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Up Holland
- Local authority
- West Lancashire
- Constituency
- West Lancashire
- Postcode district
- WN8
- Postcode sector
- WN8 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WN8 9PU
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 April 2009
- Postcode area
- WN
- Postcode district
- WN8
- Postcode sector
- WN8 9
- Latitude
- 53.531327
- Longitude
- -2.742361
- British National Grid easting
- 350,890
- British National Grid northing
- 404,107
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- West Lancashire · E07000127
- Electoral ward
- Up Holland · E05014943
- Parish or community
- E04005316
- Westminster constituency
- West Lancashire · E14001577
- Output area
- E00129568
- Lower layer super output area
- West Lancashire 015B · E01025535
- Middle layer super output area
- West Lancashire 015 · E02005318
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 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 51
- Primary
- 36
- Secondary
- 7
- 822 m
Hope High School
Community special school
- 1.1 km
Moorside Community Primary Academy School
Academy converter
- 1.1 km
Crawford Village Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 901
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 401
- Anti social behaviour 122
- Criminal damage and arson 86
- Other theft 47
- Drugs 43
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WN8 9 residents
- 8,647
Age bands in WN8 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 20.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 12.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 27%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 14.8%
1,941 residents
1,200 residents
2,601 residents
2,464 residents
1,431 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
12
within 5 km straight-line
HALL GREEN SURGERY
164 ORMSKIRK ROAD, UPHOLLAND, SKELMERSDALE, WN8 0AB
ODS code P81084
1.1 km
EXCEL PRIMARY CARE
BIRLEYWOOD HEALTH CENTRE, BIRLEYWOOD, SKELMERSDALE, WN8 9BW
ODS code P81208
1.3 km
MANOR PRIMARY CARE
HILLSIDE HEALTH CENTRE, TANHOUSE ROAD, SKELMERSDALE, WN8 6DS
ODS code P81039
2.5 km
BRADSHAW MEDICAL CENTRE
BRADSHAW STREET, ORRELL, WIGAN, WN5 0AB
ODS code P92008
3.6 km
ASHURST PRIMARY CARE
ASHURST HEALTH CENTRE, LULWORTH, SKELMERSDALE, WN8 6QS
ODS code P81201
4.1 km
RAINFORD HEALTH CENTRE
17 HIGHER LANE, RAINFORD, ST HELENS, WA11 8AZ
ODS code N83041
4.3 km
KENNETH MACRAE MED CENTRE
32 CHURCH ROAD, RAINFORD, ST. HELENS, WA11 8HJ
ODS code N83049
4.6 km
BEACON PRIMARY CARE
SANDY LANE HEALTH CENTRE, SANDY LANE, SKELMERSDALE, WN8 8LA
ODS code P81112
4.8 km
DR A BISARYA
SANDY LANE, SKELMERSDALE, WN8 8LA
ODS code P81136
4.8 km
NEWTOWN MEDICAL PRACTICE
PEMBERTON PC RESOURCE CTR, SHERWOOD DRIVE, WIGAN, WN5 9QX
ODS code P92021
4.9 km
PEMBERTON SURGERY
SHERWOOD DRIVE, PEMBERTON, WIGAN, WN5 9QX
ODS code P92019
4.9 km
SAXENA L
HOLMES HOUSE AVENUE, WINSTANLEY, WIGAN, WN3 6JN
ODS code P92038
5.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Chequer Lane
BCT · Up Holland
- 0.1 miles
Chequer Lane
BCT · Up Holland
- 0.2 miles
Upholland Rail Station
RSE · Up Holland
- 0.2 miles
Upholland Rail Station
RLY · Up Holland
- 0.2 miles
Priorswood Place
BCT · Pimbo
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for West Lancashire 015B, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
22,846 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 10 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
901 published events cover 12 months, averaging 75.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 401 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.