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A town of 8,303 in Lancashire, North West.
Coppull grades B− overall against UK towns: better than 54% of UK towns, and #20 of 65 in Lancashire. Its strongest subject is cost of living (A): median sale £195,000, 3.9 years of area income; rent £798 a month. Its weakest is health (C−): life expectancy 77.5 for men, 80 for women.
The 3 things Coppull does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compared with the 2,160 UK towns with an overall grade (schools within England), ordered by how far Coppull is from typical. American towns are graded separately.
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Historic England lists 3 buildings inside Coppull’s built-up area.
20% of its homes were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Coppull.
Owners make up 73% of households. From September 2023 to August 2026, 312 homes sold inside Coppull’s built-up area at standard prices; the middle one went for £195,000. Social housing holds 14% of households.
| By type | Median | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Detached | £330,000 | 81 |
| Semi-detached | £200,000 | 128 |
| Terraced | £145,000 | 99 |
HM Land Registry Price Paid · ONS private rents · MHCLG / Welsh Government council tax · ONS Census 2021 tenure · OGL
Key Stage 2 results at the town’s 4 primary schools: 59% of pupils meet the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (three-year average). Attainment 8 at the 5 secondary schools within 3 km averages 49, and 47% of pupils get grade 5 or above in English and maths. Some 625 pupils attend Coppull’s four primaries.
| School | Level | Pupils | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coppull Primary School and NurseryLargest primary schoolPrimary | Primary | 274 | C |
Just over a fifth of residents have a disability, near Lancashire’s towns (20%) and higher than England’s towns (17%). One GP practice serves the town; four in five patients rate theirs good in the GP Patient Survey. The nearest A&E to Coppull is Chorley and South Ribble Hospital, 3.1 miles away.
| Census 2021 | Coppull | Lancashire | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good or very good health | 80% | 80% | 82% |
| Bad or very bad health | 6% | 6.3% | 5.2% |
| Disabled (Equality Act) | 21% | 20% | 17% |
ONS Census 2021, general health and disability · OHID Fingertips, life expectancy 2019–23 · OGL · No age adjustment applies to these census answers, which flatter younger towns; the Health Grade’s measures, life expectancy and early deaths among them, do allow for age.
The heritage lists give each building’s grade but not its age, so we don’t say which is oldest.
A fifth of its homes were built before 1919, between Lancashire’s towns (23%) and England’s towns (16%). Relative to its size, Coppull keeps 4 listed buildings per 10,000 residents.
Historic England list, October 2026 · Valuation Office Agency, homes by build period · OGL
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in lockdown, so 21% of workers were mainly at home; shares here are of those who travelled.
Household income came to £45K a year before tax, below both Lancashire’s towns (£48K) and England’s towns (£55K). The car carried 86% of commuters at the census. 38% of commuters travelled under 5 km to work.
ONS Census 2021, method of travel and distance to work · ONS small-area income · DWP claimant count · OGL
Police figures for Coppull’s built-up area: 361 crimes and 106 anti-social behaviour reports in the 12 months to August 2026. Violence and sexual offences were 63% of the crimes. Also worth knowing: there were 16.6 anti-social behaviour reports per 1,000 residents (not graded), near Lancashire’s towns (17.3) and higher than England’s towns (7.8).
Not gradedAnti-social behaviour, shoplifting and other theft are shown but left out of the Safety Grade, which counts violence and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident.
data.police.uk street-level crime · points inside the ONS built-up-area boundary · OGL · The police category of violence and sexual offences includes harassment and stalking.
The share aged 15 to 24 is 9.8%. People 65 and over make up just over a fifth of the town, above Lancashire’s towns (20%) and England’s towns (18%) alike. At 43.7, the median resident of Coppull sits in the middle of the age range.
51% women, 49% men
About 96 men for every 100 women. Across England, 51% of residents are women.
| Coppull | Lancashire | England | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 17% | 17% | 18% |
| 15–24 | 9.8% | 12% | 12% |
| 25–44 | 25% | 24% | 27% |
| 45–64 | 28% | 26% | 25% |
| 65+ | 21% | 20% | 18% |
| No qualifications | 21% | 20% | 18% |
| Apprenticeship | 7.3% | 6.3% | 5.3% |
| A levels or similar | 18% | 18% | 17% |
| Degree level | 26% | 29% | 34% |
ONS Census 2021 · Lancashire and England: all residents of their built-up areas · OGL
3 notable people were born in Coppull.
Doug Hoyle, Baron Hoyle: Chris McAndrew, CC BY 3.0
The nearest built-up areas, from ONS’s 2022 boundaries. See them on the map →
| Town | People | Miles | Overall | Cost | Safety | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coppull | 8,303 | — | B− | A | B− | C− |
| Charnock Richard | 1,098 | 0.9 | — | B+ | D | B |
| Shevington Moor | 2,717 | 2.2 | — | C+ | — | B− |
| Chorley | 39,539 | 2.3 | B− | A | D | D |
| Adlington | 8,777 | 2.5 | A− | A | B− | C+ |
| Standish | 12,937 | 2.5 | — | B− | — | B− |
| Eccleston | 4,543 | 3 | A | B+ | B+ | B+ |
| Euxton | 17,519 | 3.5 | A | A | B | B− |
Charnock Richard has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Shevington Moor and Standish have no Safety Grade: Greater Manchester Police doesn’t publish to police.uk. People: Census 2021. Miles: centre to centre.
Homes cost less than in most UK towns: the median sale over three years was £195,000, against £277,000 in the typical UK town. By type: terraced houses £145,000, semi-detached houses £200,000 and detached houses £330,000.
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Town in Lancashire, England
Coppull is a built-up area of 8,303 people, in the Chorley council area. TownRatings uses ONS’s 2022 built-up areas as towns: the physical town, as people mean the word, rather than a council district, so its figures cover the town itself.
Built from ONS geography and Census 2021
Sources: ONS Census 2021, output areas summed to the ONS 2022 built-up area · HM Land Registry Price Paid (standard sales, September 2023 to August 2026) · ONS Price Index of Private Rents (August 2026, by council) · MHCLG and Welsh Government council tax, Band D 2026–27 (with parish precepts in England) · data.police.uk street-level crime, 36 months to August 2026, points inside the built-up-area boundary · ONS small-area life expectancy and healthy life expectancy, 2019 to 2023 (England and Wales), OHID Fingertips small-area indicators (England) and Census 2021 health, adjusted for age · ONS small-area income estimates (financial year ending 2023) · DWP claimant count via Nomis (January to August 2026) · Historic England, National Heritage List for England (listed buildings, scheduled monuments, registered parks and gardens, battlefields, World Heritage Sites), October 2026, inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary · Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties by build period (31 March 2025) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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