L40 2 postcode sector in the L40 district

L40 2 is a sector of the L40 district: every postcode that starts L40 2. It has 38 postcodes in use, one of them a large-user postcode. A large-user postcode is one Royal Mail gives to a single address that gets a lot of mail.

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Every postcode in the L40 2 sector, by flood risk

Map of every postcode in the L40 2 sector, by flood risk Of the 38 postcodes in the L40 2 sector that ONS places, 1 have a home or business at high risk, 3 are at medium risk at worst, 1 are at low risk at worst and 33 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Burscough, Parbold. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 1 km. A5209A59 L40 2AA: not on the flood risk listL40 2AB: not on the flood risk listL40 2AD: not on the flood risk listL40 2QB: not on the flood risk listL40 2QE: not on the flood risk listL40 2QF: not on the flood risk listL40 2QG: not on the flood risk listL40 2QJ: not on the flood risk listL40 2QL: not on the flood risk listL40 2QN: not on the flood risk listL40 2QQ: not on the flood risk listL40 2QR: not on the flood risk listL40 2QS: not on the flood risk listL40 2QT: not on the flood risk listL40 2QU: not on the flood risk listL40 2QW: not on the flood risk listL40 2QX: not on the flood risk listL40 2QY: not on the flood risk listL40 2QZ: not on the flood risk listL40 2RA: not on the flood risk listL40 2RB: not on the flood risk listL40 2RE: not on the flood risk listL40 2RF: not on the flood risk listL40 2RG: not on the flood risk listL40 2RH: not on the flood risk listL40 2RJ: not on the flood risk listL40 2RL: not on the flood risk listL40 2RN: not on the flood risk listL40 2RQ: not on the flood risk listL40 2RU: not on the flood risk listL40 2SB: not on the flood risk listL40 2WS: not on the flood risk listL40 2RD: low flood risk at worstL40 2PA: medium flood risk at worstL40 2QA: medium flood risk at worstL40 2QD: medium flood risk at worstL40 2QH: high flood risk BurscoughParbold Map of every postcode in the L40 2 sector, by flood risk Of the 38 postcodes in the L40 2 sector that ONS places, 1 have a home or business at high risk, 3 are at medium risk at worst, 1 are at low risk at worst and 33 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Burscough, Parbold. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 2.5 km. A5209A59 BurscoughParbold
  • A home or business at high risk: 1
  • At medium risk at worst: 3
  • At low risk at worst: 1
  • At very low risk only: 0
  • Not on the at-risk list: 33

Of the 38 postcodes in the L40 2 sector that ONS places, 1 have a home or business at high risk, 3 are at medium risk at worst, 1 are at low risk at worst and 33 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.

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.

L40 2QH1 at high risk

What do homes sell for in L40 2?

Homes in L40 2 sold for a typical £422,500 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 19 sales, down 1.7% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

£422,500 typical price, the 12 months to August 2026
£430,000 12 months to August 2025
▼ down 1.7% on the 12 months before
  • Detached £520,000 11 sales
  • Semi-detached £270,000 5 sales
  • Terraced 3 sales, too few to price

Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.

Standard sales of homes at market value at the postcodes that start L40 2. A typical price is the median, the middle sale, given from 5 sales or more.

How we work this out: house prices by postcode

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

Postcodes in L40 2

Pick a postcode to see its council and MP, broadband, flood risk, what homes sell for, council tax, the nearest schools and stations, and crime around it.

L40 2AAL40 2ABL40 2ADL40 2PAL40 2QAL40 2QBL40 2QDL40 2QEL40 2QFL40 2QGL40 2QHL40 2QJL40 2QLL40 2QNL40 2QPL40 2QQL40 2QRL40 2QSL40 2QTL40 2QUL40 2QWL40 2QXL40 2QYL40 2QZL40 2RAL40 2RBL40 2RDL40 2REL40 2RFL40 2RGL40 2RHL40 2RJL40 2RLL40 2RNL40 2RQL40 2RUL40 2SBL40 2WS

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. Postcodes that have ended are not listed. See all our data sources

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