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
Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; Environment Agency flood risk, published 6 July 2026; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Ordnance Survey open maps. 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.
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 £159,975 in the 12 months to September 2026. 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 16 primary schools and 2 secondary schools at its postcodes within 12 km of its centre. 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.
Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data; Ofcom Connected Nations; Environment Agency flood risk; Get Information about Schools; NHS GP practices; NaPTAN. Each figure is from a section of this page, which gives its date.
What do homes cost in Skelmersdale?
Homes in Skelmersdale sold for a typical £159,975 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 316 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £162,000 from 401 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.
- Detached £275,000 74 sales
- Semi-detached £178,000 98 sales
- Terraced £122,250 132 sales
- Flat or maisonette £81,250 12 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 £183,000.
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 October 2026.
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 September 2025, 59 of the 401 homes sold in Skelmersdale were newly built (15%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the WN8 district, 11%.
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 September 2026 | 4 of 316 (1%) | 5 of 444 (1%) |
| The 12 months to September 2025 | 59 of 401 (15%) | 62 of 581 (11%) |
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.
Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 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.
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, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 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.
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 flood risk, published 6 July 2026.
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. Special schools and alternative provision, which children join by referral, are not listed.
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
An orange bar: the school has as many pupils as places, or more (Department for Education's figures).
Find and compare schools in England, on GOV.UKSource: Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026. Each school opens its own record there.
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: NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
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
Sources: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026; Care Quality Commission, ratings of 1 October 2026.
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 to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026.
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?
Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; UK Parliament, read 14 October 2026.
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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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 Skelmersdale
With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Skelmersdale's £159,975. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.
Quick answers about Skelmersdale
- What is the postcode for Skelmersdale?
- Postcode districts L40 and WN8, with 643 postcodes in use. Source: ONS.
- Which council is Skelmersdale in?
- West Lancashire, with Lancashire as its county council. Source: ONS.
- Who is the MP for Skelmersdale?
- Ashley Dalton (Labour), for West Lancashire. Source: UK Parliament and ONS.
- How much are houses in Skelmersdale?
- A typical £159,975 in the 12 months to September 2026, from 316 sales. Source: HM Land Registry.
- What schools are 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 and Our Lady Queen of Peace Catholic High School. Source: Department for Education.
- Does Skelmersdale have a railway station?
- The nearest is Upholland station, 3.4 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport.
- 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.
- 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. River and sea risk for the land, not 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 September 2025, 59 of the 401 homes sold in Skelmersdale were newly built (15%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the WN8 district, 11%. Source: ONS and HM Land Registry.
Where the facts on this page come from
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory
- Environment Agency flood risk
- HM Land Registry Price Paid Data
- Ofcom Connected Nations
- Department for Education: Get Information about Schools
- Department for Transport: NaPTAN
- NHS England: NHS GP practices
- Care Quality Commission
- data.police.uk: police.uk
- UK Parliament
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