Schools
91 open schools are in scope, including 56 primary and 13 secondary schools. Litherland High School is the nearest published school at 428 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
L21 7NZ
Ford · Sefton · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- L21 7NZ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1990
- Postcode area
- L
- Postcode district
- L21
- Postcode sector
- L21 7
- Latitude
- 53.477336
- Longitude
- -2.989882
- British National Grid easting
- 334,400
- British National Grid northing
- 398,300
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Sefton · E08000014
- Electoral ward
- Ford · E05016333
- Parish or community
- E43000168
- Westminster constituency
- Bootle · E14001113
- Output area
- E00035375
- Lower layer super output area
- Sefton 031B · E01006981
- Middle layer super output area
- Sefton 031 · E02001459
Postcode source versions
- Ordnance Survey: Code-Point Open Version 2026-08 · Current postcode units in Great Britain · OGL-3.0
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory Version 2026-08 · United Kingdom; Northern Ireland excluded pending rights review; Crown Dependencies outside product scope · OGL-3.0 with third-party rights
- Ordnance Survey: Boundary-Line Version 2026-05 · Local-authority boundaries in Great Britain · OS OpenData Licence
Explore L21
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 91
- Primary
- 56
- Secondary
- 13
- 428 m
Litherland High School
Academy sponsor led
- 499 m
Litherland Moss Primary School
Academy converter
- 563 m
Rowan Park School
Academy special converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,942
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,358
- Criminal damage and arson 308
- Anti social behaviour 252
- Public order 240
- Drugs 210
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- L21 7 residents
- 3,314
Age bands in L21 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 17.9%
689 residents
405 residents
891 residents
948 residents
639 residents
Small counts are adjusted for privacy, so totals can differ slightly between Census tables.
Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.
GP practices
33
within 5 km straight-line
FORD MEDICAL PRACTICE
93 GORSEY LANE, FORD, LIVERPOOL, L21 0DF
ODS code N84029
642 m
15 SEFTON ROAD
DOCTORS SURGERY, 15 SEFTON ROAD, LITHERLAND, LIVERPOOL, L21 9HA
ODS code N84035
967 m
LITHERLAND PRACTICE
LITHERLAND TOWN HALL H/C, HATTON HILL ROAD, LIVERPOOL, L21 9JN
ODS code N84605
995 m
LITHERLAND PRIMARY CARE WALK-IN SERVICE
HATTON HILL ROAD, LIVERPOOL, L21 9JN
ODS code Y02514
995 m
BRIDGE ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
66-88 BRIDGE ROAD, LITHERLAND, LIVERPOOL, L21 6PH
ODS code N84023
1.3 km
SEAFORTH VILLAGE SURGERY
20 SEAFORTH ROAD, LIVERPOOL, L21 3TA
ODS code N84043
1.7 km
GLOVERS LANE SURGERY
GLOVERS LANE, BOOTLE, L30 5TA
ODS code N84004
1.7 km
NETHERTON SURGERY
NETHERTON HEALTH CENTRE, MAGDALEN SQUARE, BOOTLE, L30 5SP
ODS code N84630
1.7 km
RAWSON ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
138 RAWSON ROAD, SEAFORTH, LIVERPOOL, L21 1HP
ODS code N84615
2.0 km
42 KINGSWAY
KINGSWAY, WATERLOO, LIVERPOOL, L22 4RQ
ODS code N84001
2.1 km
KINGSWAY SURGERY
30 KINGSWAY, WATERLOO, LIVERPOOL, L22 4RQ
ODS code N84041
2.1 km
NORTH PARK HEALTH CENTRE
290 KNOWSLEY ROAD, BOOTLE, L20 5DQ
ODS code N84019
2.1 km
AINTREE PARK GROUP PRACTICE
46 MOSS LANE, ORRELL PARK, LIVERPOOL, L9 8AL
ODS code N82053
2.2 km
MOORE STREET MEDICAL CENTRE
77 MOORE STREET, BOOTLE, L20 4SE
ODS code N84016
2.2 km
GREAT CROSBY AND THORNTON
THORNTON FAMILY HC, BRETLANDS ROAD, THORNTON, LIVERPOOL, L23 1TQ
ODS code N84621
2.3 km
EASTVIEW SURGERY
81-83 CROSBY ROAD NORTH, WATERLOO, LIVERPOOL, L22 4QD
ODS code N84011
2.3 km
AINTREE ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
2 AINTREE ROAD, BOOTLE, L20 9DL
ODS code N84002
2.4 km
ORRELL PARK MEDICAL CENTRE
TRINITY CHURCH, ORRELL LANE, LIVERPOOL, L9 8BU
ODS code N84027
2.4 km
LIVERPOOL RD MEDICAL PRACTICE
133 LIVERPOOL ROAD, CROSBY, LIVERPOOL, L23 5TE
ODS code N84007
2.5 km
THE STRAND MEDICAL CENTRE
272 MARSH LANE, BOOTLE, L20 5BW
ODS code N84028
2.6 km
Showing 20 of 33 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.3 miles
Kirkstone Road North
BCT · Litherland
- 0.3 miles
Sonning Avenue
BCT · Hatton Hill Park
- 0.3 miles
Osborne Road
BCT · Stanley Park
- 0.3 miles
Kirkstone Road South
BCT · Litherland
- 0.3 miles
Thirlmere Drive
BCT · Litherland
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Sefton 031B, the published LSOA linked to this postcode. Decile 1 contains the most deprived 10% of English LSOAs and decile 10 the least deprived 10%.
Overall IMD decile
1 of 10
Overall England rank
1,812 of 33,755
- Income
- 1 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 of 10
These are relative area statistics, not measures of an individual household, affluence or absolute change. They cannot be compared with indices for other UK nations. Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025, version 2025-v2.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
2,942 published events cover 12 months, averaging 245.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,358 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.