Chorley
Chorley is covered by postcode districts PR6 and PR7. It is in the Chorley council area, Lancashire.
Every postcode in Chorley, and which are new since 2020
- New since 2020: 48
- In use before 2020: 956
- Outline: where 5 or more new postcodes since 2020 lie together
Of the 1,004 postcodes in Chorley that ONS places, 48 are new since 2020 and 956 were in use before 2020.
Each mark is a postcode's centre point as ONS gives it, not a building. Press one to see its postcode and open its page. New since 2020 means it came into use in January 2020 or later. A dashed outline shows where 5 or more lie within 150 metres of each other. It is not a boundary, and no boundary is drawn. Where marks overlap, the one first in the key is drawn; the counts include every postcode.
The middle of its postcodes: latitude 53.6516, longitude -2.6307. Open this area on OpenStreetMap
Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026, the centre point of each postcode; when each came into use: the same directory; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Drawn by us. Street map: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Zoomstack, Open Government Licence v3.0, drawn with MapLibre. How we use them
The 5 newest postcodes
Where the new postcodes lie together
- 37 new postcodes since 2020, outlined on the map. PR6 6SW, is the newest of them.
What is it like to live in Chorley?
Homes sold for a typical £180,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, down 2.7% on the 12 months before. At 823 of the 931 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 49 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 16 of its 1,004 postcodes. It has at least 5 primary schools, 1 secondary school and 3 all-through schools at its postcodes. At least 5 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Chorley, 250 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.
We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge.
Source: HM Land Registry, Ofcom, the Environment Agency, the Department for Education, NHS England and the Department for Transport, as each section of this page says. See all our data sources
What do homes cost in Chorley?
Homes in Chorley sold for a typical £180,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 417 sales, down 2.7% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.
- Detached £332,500 91 sales
- Semi-detached £200,000 134 sales
- Terraced £145,000 158 sales
- Flat or maisonette £120,000 34 sales
Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.
Across the whole PR7 district, Chorley's main postcode district: a typical £222,000.
Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Chorley: standard sales of homes at market value. A typical price is the median, the middle sale. Sales take weeks to be registered, so the last month or two are incomplete. Each postcode page gives the figure for its own postcode sector.
Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Are new homes being built in Chorley?
48 of the 1,004 postcodes now in use in Chorley came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 561 homes sold in Chorley were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the PR7 district, 9%.
The newest postcodes
A new postcode is often a new street or estate, but Royal Mail also makes new postcodes when it reorganises old ones, so not every one means new homes. Only postcodes still in use are counted.
New homes among the homes sold
| Period | In Chorley | Across the PR7 district |
|---|---|---|
| The 12 months to August 2026 | 0 of 417 (0%) | 33 of 821 (4%) |
| The 12 months to August 2025 | 0 of 561 (0%) | 101 of 1,144 (9%) |
Standard sales of homes at market value that HM Land Registry marks as newly built. New homes take longer to be registered than other sales, so the latest 12 months count fewer of them than were sold. A share is given from 5 sales or more.
Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
What broadband can you get in Chorley?
Ofcom reports on 931 of the 1,004 postcodes in Chorley. At 823 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.
Ofcom gives each postcode's share of homes and businesses, not how many there are, so these count postcodes. Each postcode page has its own figures. A provider's checker answers for one address.
Check one address on Ofcom's checkerSource: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Is Chorley at risk of flooding?
16 of the 1,004 postcodes in Chorley have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 49 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.
High: 3.3% or more a year (1 in 30). Medium: 1% to 3.3% a year. Low: 0.1% to 1% a year. Very low: under 0.1% a year (1 in 1,000). Each band is the chance of flooding in any one year.
Homes and businesses in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, as the Environment Agency counts them, added up over the postcodes. It is for the land, not each building, and leaves out surface water, groundwater and sewers. Each postcode page has its own figures and its flood warning areas.
Source: Environment Agency, Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea (postcodes in areas at risk), published 6 July 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Which schools are in Chorley?
The open schools at the postcodes in Chorley (the first 8 primaries by distance from its middle). A school for ages 4 to 18 is listed under both. Distances are straight lines from the middle of its postcodes. Distance is not a catchment: each council sets its own admission rules.
Primary
- Duke Street Primary School500 m 317 pupils, 327 places
- Chorley Astley Park School550 m 161 pupils, 176 places
- Mayfield House School750 m 23 pupils, 50 places
- Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School, Chorley750 m 157 pupils, 180 places
- Chorley, the Parish of St Laurence Church of England Primary School750 m 201 pupils, 210 places
- Highfield Community Primary School750 m 234 pupils, 279 places
- Mayfield School900 m 133 pupils, 133 places
- Chorley St James' Church of England Primary School950 m 229 pupils, 180 places
Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. Each school opens its own record there. How we use it
How far is the station from Chorley?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Chorley is Chorley Rail Station, 250 m away in a straight line.
- Chorley Rail Station Railway station 250 mWalk
- Euxton Balshaw Lane Rail Station Railway station 2.9 kmCycle
- Buckshaw Parkway Rail Station Railway station 3.1 kmCycle
Straight-line distances from the centre point, not routes. Walk: under 1.2 km. Cycle: 1.2 to 5 km. Drive: further.
Straight-line distances from the middle of the postcodes, not routes. Each postcode page lists its own nearest stations and bus stops. The Department for Transport's register does not say how often services run.
Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Which GP surgeries are in Chorley?
The GP practices at the postcodes in Chorley, the first 5 by distance from its middle. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.
- The Chorley Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report October 2022, over 3 years old · Phone 01257 513970 100 mWalk
- Library House Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report January 2023, over 3 years old · Phone 01257 262801 250 mWalk
- Regent House Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report June 2016, over 3 years old · Phone 01257 514270 350 mWalk
- Dr Jacobs Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report March 2017, over 3 years old · Phone 01257 513950 350 mWalk
- Gab Healthcare Care Quality Commission rating: Requires improvement CQC report March 2024 · Phone 01257 513930 400 mWalk
Source: NHS England, Organisation Data Service (GP practices), read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Is Chorley safe? Crime recorded around it
Police.uk records 4,273 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Chorley over the 12 months from September 2025 to August 2026. August 2026 is the latest month it has published. These are counts, not a rate: we hold no count of the people who live, work or pass through, so we do not say whether a place is safe.
Each month, September 2025 to August 2026
- 362 September 2025
- 341 October 2025
- 352 November 2025
- 409 December 2025
- 324 January 2026
- 273 February 2026
- 336 March 2026
- 395 April 2026
- 398 May 2026
- 398 June 2026
- 365 July 2026
- 320 August 2026
By kind, over the 12 months
Also: vehicle crime 98, other crime 95, possession of weapons 56, robbery 32, bicycle theft 22, theft from the person 20.
Police.uk says its locations "always represent the approximate location of a crime". Each crime is moved to the nearest of a fixed list of map points, each over a street centre, a public place or a commercial premises, chosen so that every point covers at least eight addresses or none. A mile is a wide circle: in a town it takes in the centre and its shops, where much crime is recorded.
Crime around one postcodeSource: Police.uk (data.police.uk), data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Who runs Chorley?
- District, borough or city council
- Chorley
- County council
- Lancashire
- Parliamentary constituency
- Chorley
- Police force area
- Lancashire
- Region
- North West
- Country
- England
- MP
- Sir Lindsay Hoyle (Speaker)
All 1,004 postcodes here share these. Wards differ: check a postcode for yours. What council am I in?
Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. The MP: UK Parliament. See all our data sources
Moving to Chorley
Who to tell and what to sort out in your first week.
- Tell Chorley about council tax Council tax, on chorley.gov.uk
- Register to vote at the new address Register to vote on GOV.UK
- Register with a GP practice The GP practices in Chorley
- Take meter readings on the day you move in
- Power cut? Call 105. It is free. About 105, the power cut number
- Find out your bin day Check your bin day on BinDayBuddy, which reads the council's own collection system
Chorley postcodes
1,004 postcodes in use in Chorley, by district:
Those districts are all in the PR postcode area.
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Enter a full postcode to see its ward, its flood risk, house prices in its sector and its nearest schools.
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Places near Chorley
With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Chorley's £180,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.
Questions about Chorley
- What is it like to live in Chorley?
- Homes sold for a typical £180,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, down 2.7% on the 12 months before. At 823 of the 931 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 49 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 16 of its 1,004 postcodes. It has at least 5 primary schools, 1 secondary school and 3 all-through schools at its postcodes. At least 5 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Chorley, 250 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge. Source: HM Land Registry, Ofcom, the Environment Agency, the Department for Education, NHS England and the Department for Transport, as each section of this page says.
- What is the postcode for Chorley?
- Chorley is covered by postcode districts PR6 and PR7, across 1,004 postcodes in use. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
- Which council is Chorley in?
- Chorley is in the Chorley council area, and Lancashire is its county council. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
- Who is the MP for Chorley?
- Chorley is in the Chorley parliamentary constituency. Its MP is Sir Lindsay Hoyle (Speaker), as UK Parliament listed them on 14 October 2026. Constituency: ONS Postcode Directory.
- How much are houses in Chorley?
- Homes in Chorley sold for a typical £180,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 417 sales, down 2.7% on the 12 months before. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026.
- What schools are in Chorley?
- In Chorley, primary schools at its postcodes include Duke Street Primary School, Chorley Astley Park School and Mayfield House School; secondary schools at its postcodes include Chorley Astley Park School, Mayfield House School and Mayfield School. Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026.
- Does Chorley have a railway station?
- Yes: Chorley is 250 metres from the centre point of the postcodes in Chorley, in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
- What broadband can you get in Chorley?
- Ofcom reports on 931 of the 1,004 postcodes in Chorley. At 823 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026.
- Is Chorley at risk of flooding?
- 16 of the 1,004 postcodes in Chorley have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 49 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk. This is long-term risk for the land, and leaves out surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
- Are new homes being built in Chorley?
- 48 of the 1,004 postcodes now in use in Chorley came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 561 homes sold in Chorley were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the PR7 district, 9%. Source: ONS Postcode Directory and HM Land Registry Price Paid Data.
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