Skelmersdale
TownTown in West Lancashire, North West.
Skelmersdale is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Skelmersdale 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.
Radon Affected Area by town
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 92% of people in Skelmersdale live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Skelmersdale compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Skelmersdale safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Skelmersdale at a rate of 96.0 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, 294 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Skelmersdale.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,433), anti-social behaviour (616) and other crime (591).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Skelmersdale was 107.4 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 Skelmersdale, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Skelmersdale has no single figure. Of its 23 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 8 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Skelmersdale
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| West Lancashire 009A | 1,676 | 42.5 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.9% |
| West Lancashire 009B | 1,621 | 83.6 per 1,000 | 3 | 70.9% |
| West Lancashire 009C | 1,879 | 38.2 per 1,000 | 9 | 94.3% |
| West Lancashire 009D | 1,098 | 98.6 per 1,000 | 6 | 93.7% |
| West Lancashire 010A | 1,493 | 72.3 per 1,000 | 2 | 75.7% |
| West Lancashire 010B | 1,408 | 89.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.4% |
| West Lancashire 010C | 1,605 | 141.6 per 1,000 | 2 | 98.7% |
| West Lancashire 010D | 1,551 | 195.4 per 1,000 | 1 | 85.4% |
| West Lancashire 010E | 1,210 | 52.6 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.6% |
| West Lancashire 010F | 1,610 | 111.5 per 1,000 | 3 | 88.6% |
| West Lancashire 011A | 1,706 | 67.5 per 1,000 | 4 | 92.4% |
| West Lancashire 011B | 1,483 | 106.4 per 1,000 | 2 | 75.9% |
| West Lancashire 011C | 1,636 | 57.0 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.7% |
| West Lancashire 011D | 1,590 | 120.1 per 1,000 | 4 | 96.5% |
| West Lancashire 013A | 1,249 | 60.6 per 1,000 | 4 | 96.6% |
| West Lancashire 013B | 1,473 | 77.6 per 1,000 | 2 | 72.8% |
| West Lancashire 013C | 1,974 | 128.5 per 1,000 | 2 | 92.0% |
| West Lancashire 013D | 1,887 | 45.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 68.4% |
| West Lancashire 014A | 1,618 | 176.8 per 1,000 | 1 | 17.2% |
| West Lancashire 014B | 1,740 | 106.1 per 1,000 | 1 | 55.8% |
| West Lancashire 014C | 1,426 | 107.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 56.9% |
| West Lancashire 014D | 1,147 | 141.1 per 1,000 | 1 | 40.9% |
| West Lancashire 014E | 1,374 | 89.8 per 1,000 | 4 | 70.1% |
Your MP
- Ashley DaltonLabourMP for West Lancashire
As of , from the UK Parliament Members API. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.
Council1
Postcode districts covering Skelmersdale1
Middle areas in Skelmersdale5
Towns near Skelmersdale6
Skelmersdale in brief
Skelmersdale is a town in West Lancashire, North West.
About 36,373 people lived in Skelmersdale in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £147,500 in 2025 across 351 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 96.0 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Skelmersdale was £147,500 in 2025.
Skelmersdale had 34,921 usual residents at the census.
About 92% of people in Skelmersdale live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Skelmersdale, 81.0% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.