Skelmersdale
Skelmersdale is covered by postcode districts L40 and WN8. It is in the West Lancashire council area, Lancashire.
Every postcode in Skelmersdale, by flood risk
- A home or business at high risk: 1
- At medium risk at worst: 0
- At low risk at worst: 0
- At very low risk only: 0
- Not on the at-risk list: 642
Of the 643 postcodes in Skelmersdale that ONS places, 1 have a home or business at high risk and 642 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list.
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. 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 53.5496, longitude -2.7780. 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; flood risk: Environment Agency, published 6 July 2026; 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 postcodes at high risk
Beside each: how many of its homes and businesses the Environment Agency puts at that risk.
What is it like to live in Skelmersdale?
Homes sold for a typical £165,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, up 3.1% on the 12 months before. At 385 of the 603 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 12 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 1 of its 643 postcodes. It has at least 8 primary schools and 4 secondary schools at its postcodes. At least 5 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Upholland, 3.4 km 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 Skelmersdale?
Homes in Skelmersdale sold for a typical £165,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 327 sales, up 3.1% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.
- Detached £292,498 84 sales
- Semi-detached £180,000 98 sales
- Terraced £120,000 135 sales
- Flat or maisonette £82,250 10 sales
Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.
Across the whole WN8 district, Skelmersdale's main postcode district: a typical £188,000.
Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Skelmersdale: 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 Skelmersdale?
36 of the 643 postcodes now in use in Skelmersdale came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 56 of the 388 homes sold in Skelmersdale were newly built (14%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the WN8 district, 10%.
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 Skelmersdale | Across the WN8 district |
|---|---|---|
| The 12 months to August 2026 | 13 of 327 (4%) | 14 of 461 (3%) |
| The 12 months to August 2025 | 56 of 388 (14%) | 59 of 564 (10%) |
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 Skelmersdale?
Ofcom reports on 603 of the 643 postcodes in Skelmersdale. At 385 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 Skelmersdale at risk of flooding?
1 of the 643 postcodes in Skelmersdale has a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 12 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 Skelmersdale?
The open schools at the postcodes in Skelmersdale (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
- Delph Side Community Primary School500 m 251 pupils, 210 places
- St Edmund's Catholic Primary School650 m 82 pupils, 147 places
- St John's Catholic Primary School, Skelmersdale900 m 196 pupils, 210 places
- Woodland Community Primary School1.0 km 335 pupils, 350 places
- Crow Orchard Primary School1.1 km 121 pupils, 154 places
- Trinity Church of England/Methodist School1.2 km 256 pupils, 250 places
- Hillside Community Primary School1.2 km 151 pupils, 210 places
- Cobbs Brow School1.2 km 308 pupils, 320 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 Skelmersdale?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Skelmersdale is Upholland Rail Station, 3.4 km away in a straight line.
- Upholland Rail Station Railway station 3.4 kmCycle
- Rainford Rail Station Railway station 3.7 kmCycle
- Parbold Rail Station Railway station 4.6 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 Skelmersdale?
The GP practices at the postcodes in Skelmersdale, the first 5 by distance from its middle. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.
- Manor Primary Care Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report November 2016, over 3 years old · Phone 01695 736260 900 mWalk
- Ashurst Primary Care Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report September 2018, over 3 years old · Phone 01695 736110 1.6 kmCycle
- Excel Primary Care Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report June 2016, over 3 years old · Phone 01695 736150 1.8 kmCycle
- Beacon Primary Care Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report November 2018, over 3 years old · Phone 01695 736000 1.9 kmCycle
- Dr A Bisarya Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report December 2025 · Phone 01695 736191 1.9 kmCycle
Source: NHS England, Organisation Data Service (GP practices), read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Is Skelmersdale safe? Crime recorded around it
Police.uk records 2,462 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Skelmersdale 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
- 237 September 2025
- 217 October 2025
- 225 November 2025
- 199 December 2025
- 179 January 2026
- 150 February 2026
- 212 March 2026
- 204 April 2026
- 192 May 2026
- 199 June 2026
- 240 July 2026
- 208 August 2026
By kind, over the 12 months
Also: shoplifting 81, burglary 72, possession of weapons 47, robbery 31, bicycle theft 7, theft from the person 6.
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 Skelmersdale?
- District, borough or city council
- West Lancashire
- County council
- Lancashire
- Parliamentary constituency
- West Lancashire
- Police force area
- Lancashire
- Region
- North West
- Country
- England
- MP
- Ashley Dalton (Labour)
All 643 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 Skelmersdale
Who to tell and what to sort out in your first week.
- Tell West Lancashire about council tax Council tax, on westlancs.gov.uk
- Register to vote at the new address Register to vote on GOV.UK
- Register with a GP practice The GP practices in Skelmersdale
- 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
Skelmersdale postcodes
643 postcodes in use in Skelmersdale, by district:
Those districts are in the WN postcode area and L postcode area.
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Places near Skelmersdale
With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Skelmersdale's £165,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.
Questions about Skelmersdale
- What is it like to live in Skelmersdale?
- Homes sold for a typical £165,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, up 3.1% on the 12 months before. At 385 of the 603 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 12 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 1 of its 643 postcodes. It has at least 8 primary schools and 4 secondary schools at its postcodes. At least 5 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Upholland, 3.4 km 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 Skelmersdale?
- Skelmersdale is covered by postcode districts L40 and WN8, across 643 postcodes in use. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
- Which council is Skelmersdale in?
- Skelmersdale is in the West Lancashire council area, and Lancashire is its county council. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
- Who is the MP for Skelmersdale?
- Skelmersdale is in the West Lancashire parliamentary constituency. Its MP is Ashley Dalton (Labour), as UK Parliament listed them on 14 October 2026. Constituency: ONS Postcode Directory.
- How much are houses in Skelmersdale?
- Homes in Skelmersdale sold for a typical £165,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 327 sales, up 3.1% on the 12 months before. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026.
- What schools are in Skelmersdale?
- In Skelmersdale, primary schools at its postcodes include Delph Side Community Primary School, St Edmund's Catholic Primary School and St John's Catholic Primary School, Skelmersdale; secondary schools at its postcodes include Lathom High School : A Technology College, West Lancashire Community High School and Our Lady Queen of Peace Catholic High School. Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026.
- Does Skelmersdale have a railway station?
- The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Skelmersdale is Upholland, 3.4 km away in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
- What broadband can you get in Skelmersdale?
- Ofcom reports on 603 of the 643 postcodes in Skelmersdale. At 385 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026.
- Is Skelmersdale at risk of flooding?
- 1 of the 643 postcodes in Skelmersdale has a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 12 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 Skelmersdale?
- 36 of the 643 postcodes now in use in Skelmersdale came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 56 of the 388 homes sold in Skelmersdale were newly built (14%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the WN8 district, 10%. Source: ONS Postcode Directory and HM Land Registry Price Paid Data.
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