# Lancaster

Town in Lancaster, North West.

Lancaster is a town in Lancaster, North West. Median sale price £189,475 in 2025. Recorded crime 110.1 per 1,000 people. About 53,924 people.

Town. Code E63000560. In: [Towns](https://openindex.co.uk/places/towns) › [Lancaster](https://openindex.co.uk/lancaster)

Lancaster is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Lancaster add up the census output areas (or, for claimants, the neighbourhoods) that sit mostly inside it, so they are close to, but not exactly, the town’s own.

## Key figures

- **Median sale price: £189,475** (2025). The median price paid for a home in Lancaster was £189,475 in 2025. 178th cheapest of 1,092. Source: Worked out by Open Index from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data. Published 28 September 2026. https://openindex.co.uk/town/lancaster#f-house-sales-median-price
- **Population: 52,646** (2021). Lancaster had 52,646 usual residents at the census (ONS Census 2021). 201st most populated of 1,209. Source: Census 2021, England and Wales and Scotland's Census 2022 and Census 2021, Northern Ireland, 2021. Published 21 July 2026. https://openindex.co.uk/town/lancaster#f-population
- **People in radon Affected Area squares: 96%** (2022). About 96% of people in Lancaster live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area. UK 44%. Source: Worked out by Open Index from the UKHSA and BGS radon atlas and census output areas. Published 1 December 2022. https://openindex.co.uk/town/lancaster#f-radon-affected-share
- **Gigabit broadband coverage: 86.7%** (January 2026). In Lancaster, 86.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026 (Ofcom). UK 87.8%. Source: Connected Nations (Ofcom), January 2026. Published 13 May 2026. https://openindex.co.uk/town/lancaster#f-gigabit-coverage

## On the map

- [Radon Affected Area by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/radon-affected-areas?place=E63000560) (Worked out by Open Index · 2022): About 96% of people in Lancaster live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
- [Sales per year by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/house-sales-per-year?place=E63000560) (Worked out by Open Index · 2025): 720 homes were sold in Lancaster in 2025.
- [Crime and ASB by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/recorded-crime?place=E63000560) (Police recorded crime and outcomes (data.police.uk) · August 2026): Crime and anti-social behaviour for Lancaster.
- [Population by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/population?place=E63000560) (Census 2021, England and Wales): Lancaster had 52,646 usual residents at the census.

## How Lancaster compares

Each town against every other town the measure covers.

| Measure | Lancaster | Rank | Compared with |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Median sale price | £189,475 | 45th cheapest | 161 towns, North West · 2025 |
| Population | 52,646 | 32nd most populated | 161 towns, North West · 2021 |
| People in radon Affected Area squares | 96% | joint 31st most people in radon Affected Areas | 161 towns, North West · 2022 |
| Gigabit broadband coverage | 86.7% | joint 8th lowest | 161 towns, North West · Jan 2026 |

## Is Lancaster safe? What police records show

In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Lancaster at a rate of 110.1 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 92.4 per 1,000 people across North West.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 553 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Lancaster.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (2,037), anti-social behaviour (1,323) and other crime (942).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Lancaster was 129.4 per 1,000 people.
Worked out by Open Index from police.uk crime records and ONS and NISRA population estimates.
Rates are per resident, so places that many people work in or visit, such as Westminster, the City of London and other city centres, have far higher rates than their residents alone would suggest.

## Deprivation in Lancaster, neighbourhood by neighbourhood

- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Lancaster has no single figure. Of its 32 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 5 neighbourhoods

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.

## Neighbourhoods in Lancaster

| Area | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Lancaster 011A](https://openindex.co.uk/lancaster/neighbourhood/e01025149) | 2,182 | 88.6 per 1,000 | 4 | 100.0% |
| [Lancaster 011B](https://openindex.co.uk/lancaster/neighbourhood/e01025150) | 1,560 | 92.3 per 1,000 | 4 | 100.0% |
| [Lancaster 011C](https://openindex.co.uk/lancaster/neighbourhood/e01025151) | 1,649 | 211.6 per 1,000 | 1 | 76.4% |
| [Lancaster 011D](https://openindex.co.uk/lancaster/neighbourhood/e01025152) | 1,550 | 102.2 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| [Lancaster 011E](https://openindex.co.uk/lancaster/neighbourhood/e01025154) | 1,342 | 137.8 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| [Lancaster 013A](https://openindex.co.uk/lancaster/neighbourhood/e01025091) | 1,661 | 114.3 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.9% |
| [Lancaster 013B](https://openindex.co.uk/lancaster/neighbourhood/e01025092) | 1,283 | 117.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 92.8% |
| [Lancaster 013C](https://openindex.co.uk/lancaster/neighbourhood/e01025095) | 2,977 | 58.1 per 1,000 | 10 | 96.8% |
| [Lancaster 013D](https://openindex.co.uk/lancaster/neighbourhood/e01025126) | 2,120 | 45.4 per 1,000 | 10 | 92.8% |
| [Lancaster 014A](https://openindex.co.uk/lancaster/neighbourhood/e01025093) | 2,206 | 197.7 per 1,000 | 5 | 45.8% |
| [Lancaster 014B](https://openindex.co.uk/lancaster/neighbourhood/e01025094) | 1,378 | 72.4 per 1,000 | 4 | 74.5% |
| [Lancaster 014C](https://openindex.co.uk/lancaster/neighbourhood/e01025099) | 1,966 | 110.0 per 1,000 | 5 | 78.4% |
| [Lancaster 014E](https://openindex.co.uk/lancaster/neighbourhood/e01033071) | 1,674 | 678.5 per 1,000 | 5 | 52.6% |
| [Lancaster 014F](https://openindex.co.uk/lancaster/neighbourhood/e01033073) | 1,861 | 139.8 per 1,000 | 6 | 76.6% |
| [Lancaster 015B](https://openindex.co.uk/lancaster/neighbourhood/e01025128) | 1,325 | 31.2 per 1,000 | 5 | 94.3% |
| [Lancaster 015D](https://openindex.co.uk/lancaster/neighbourhood/e01025147) | 1,478 | 54.5 per 1,000 | 8 | 93.6% |
| [Lancaster 015E](https://openindex.co.uk/lancaster/neighbourhood/e01034763) | 2,303 | 28.7 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.9% |
| [Lancaster 017A](https://openindex.co.uk/lancaster/neighbourhood/e01025100) | 2,432 | 71.1 per 1,000 | 6 | 91.3% |
| [Lancaster 017B](https://openindex.co.uk/lancaster/neighbourhood/e01025101) | 1,371 | 112.3 per 1,000 | 2 | 95.8% |
| [Lancaster 017C](https://openindex.co.uk/lancaster/neighbourhood/e01025102) | 1,556 | 61.6 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.8% |
| [Lancaster 017D](https://openindex.co.uk/lancaster/neighbourhood/e01025103) | 1,250 | 27.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 85.6% |
| [Lancaster 017E](https://openindex.co.uk/lancaster/neighbourhood/e01025144) | 1,772 | 99.6 per 1,000 | 5 | 71.7% |
| [Lancaster 017F](https://openindex.co.uk/lancaster/neighbourhood/e01025146) | 1,962 | 43.2 per 1,000 | 10 | 71.8% |
| [Lancaster 018A](https://openindex.co.uk/lancaster/neighbourhood/e01025127) | 1,377 | 27.5 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
| [Lancaster 018B](https://openindex.co.uk/lancaster/neighbourhood/e01025141) | 1,365 | 72.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 95.6% |
| [Lancaster 018C](https://openindex.co.uk/lancaster/neighbourhood/e01025143) | 1,410 | 65.5 per 1,000 | 3 | 89.9% |
| [Lancaster 018D](https://openindex.co.uk/lancaster/neighbourhood/e01025145) | 1,465 | 31.6 per 1,000 | 7 | 100.0% |
| [Lancaster 019D](https://openindex.co.uk/lancaster/neighbourhood/e01025142) | 1,482 | 30.1 per 1,000 | 10 | 78.4% |
| [Lancaster 020F](https://openindex.co.uk/lancaster/neighbourhood/e01025153) | 1,261 | 66.9 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.8% |
| [Lancaster 020G](https://openindex.co.uk/lancaster/neighbourhood/e01025155) | 1,289 | 58.7 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.6% |
| [Lancaster 020H](https://openindex.co.uk/lancaster/neighbourhood/e01025156) | 1,418 | 129.4 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.8% |
| [Lancaster 020I](https://openindex.co.uk/lancaster/neighbourhood/e01025157) | 1,215 | 218.5 per 1,000 | 2 | 90.0% |

## Your MP

- [Lancaster and Wyre](https://openindex.co.uk/constituency/lancaster-and-wyre): Cat Smith (Labour), MP since July 2024.

As of 18 October 2026. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.

## Council

[Lancaster](https://openindex.co.uk/lancaster)

## Postcode districts covering Lancaster

[LA1](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/la1)

## Middle areas in Lancaster

[Lancaster Central](https://openindex.co.uk/lancaster/lancaster-central), [Lancaster East](https://openindex.co.uk/lancaster/lancaster-east), [Marsh, Haverbreaks & Scotforth West](https://openindex.co.uk/lancaster/marsh-haverbreaks-and-scotforth-west), [Moorlands & Greaves](https://openindex.co.uk/lancaster/moorlands-and-greaves), [Scotforth East & Bowerham](https://openindex.co.uk/lancaster/scotforth-east-and-bowerham), [Skerton & Vale](https://openindex.co.uk/lancaster/skerton-and-vale)

## Towns near Lancaster

[Morecambe](https://openindex.co.uk/town/morecambe), [Heysham](https://openindex.co.uk/town/heysham), [Fleetwood](https://openindex.co.uk/town/fleetwood), [Ulverston](https://openindex.co.uk/town/ulverston), [Thornton](https://openindex.co.uk/town/thornton), [Cleveleys](https://openindex.co.uk/town/cleveleys)

## Lancaster in brief

Lancaster is a town in Lancaster, North West.
About 53,924 people lived in Lancaster in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £189,475 in 2025 across 720 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 110.1 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Lancaster was £189,475 in 2025.
Lancaster had 52,646 usual residents at the census.
About 96% of people in Lancaster live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Lancaster, 86.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.

## About

- Type: Town
- Code: E63000560
- Constituency: [Lancaster and Wyre †](https://openindex.co.uk/constituency/lancaster-and-wyre)
- Council: [Lancaster †](https://openindex.co.uk/lancaster)
- Region: [North West](https://openindex.co.uk/north-west)
- Nation: [England](https://openindex.co.uk/england)
- Area: 10.84 km²
- People, mid-2024: 53,924*
- Neighbourhoods: 32
- Output areas: 173

* People: worked out by Open Index from neighbourhood estimates, shared out by where people lived at the census (by area in Northern Ireland). This area's edges do not follow neighbourhood edges, so the figure is close but not exact.
† Best fit: the constituency and council this town mostly lies in. Its edges do not follow theirs.

## Next door

[Morecambe](https://openindex.co.uk/town/morecambe), [Heysham](https://openindex.co.uk/town/heysham), [Fleetwood](https://openindex.co.uk/town/fleetwood), [Ulverston](https://openindex.co.uk/town/ulverston), [Thornton](https://openindex.co.uk/town/thornton), [Cleveleys](https://openindex.co.uk/town/cleveleys)

## Latest updates for Lancaster

- Dental practices updated: NHS England · Oct 2026.
- Schools updated: Ofsted · Oct 2026.
- GP practices updated: NHS England · Oct 2026.
- Schools updated: Department for Education · Oct 2026.

The same figures as JSON: https://openindex.co.uk/v1/places/E63000560

## How to cite

Source: Open Index, openindex.co.uk. Link to this page, https://openindex.co.uk/town/lancaster, or to one figure with its anchor, https://openindex.co.uk/town/lancaster#f-house-sales-median-price.

Open Index's own text and the figures it works out are licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Source data keeps its publishers' licences, named with each figure. Give each figure's period and source with it.

Snapshot 2026.10.8, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23508850. The HTML page: https://openindex.co.uk/town/lancaster