Schools
59 open schools are in scope, including 39 primary and 8 secondary schools. Forefield Junior School is the nearest published school at 399 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
L23 2WA
Great Crosby · Sefton · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Great Crosby
- Local authority
- Sefton
- Constituency
- Bootle
- Postcode district
- L23
- Postcode sector
- L23 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- L23 2WA
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 October 2002
- Terminated
- 1 November 2003
- Postcode area
- L
- Postcode district
- L23
- Postcode sector
- L23 2
- Latitude
- 53.493055
- Longitude
- -3.014787
- British National Grid easting
- 332,772
- British National Grid northing
- 400,072
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Sefton · E08000014
- Electoral ward
- Great Crosby · E05016336
- Parish or community
- E43000168
- Westminster constituency
- Bootle · E14001113
- Output area
- E00035614
- Lower layer super output area
- Sefton 025A · E01007021
- Middle layer super output area
- Sefton 025 · E02001453
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 L23
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 59
- Primary
- 39
- Secondary
- 8
- 399 m
Forefield Junior School
Academy converter
- 458 m
Great Crosby Catholic Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 540 m
Crosby High School
Community special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,901
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 806
- Anti social behaviour 178
- Shoplifting 175
- Criminal damage and arson 175
- Public order 163
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- L23 2 residents
- 3,802
Age bands in L23 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 20.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 25.9%
474 residents
280 residents
640 residents
911 residents
804 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
21
within 5 km straight-line
LIVERPOOL RD MEDICAL PRACTICE
133 LIVERPOOL ROAD, CROSBY, LIVERPOOL, L23 5TE
ODS code N84007
908 m
GREAT CROSBY AND THORNTON
THORNTON FAMILY HC, BRETLANDS ROAD, THORNTON, LIVERPOOL, L23 1TQ
ODS code N84621
1.2 km
42 KINGSWAY
KINGSWAY, WATERLOO, LIVERPOOL, L22 4RQ
ODS code N84001
1.4 km
KINGSWAY SURGERY
30 KINGSWAY, WATERLOO, LIVERPOOL, L22 4RQ
ODS code N84041
1.4 km
EASTVIEW SURGERY
81-83 CROSBY ROAD NORTH, WATERLOO, LIVERPOOL, L22 4QD
ODS code N84011
1.5 km
FORD MEDICAL PRACTICE
93 GORSEY LANE, FORD, LIVERPOOL, L21 0DF
ODS code N84029
1.8 km
BLUNDELLSANDS SURGERY
1 WARREN ROAD, BLUNDELLSANDS, LIVERPOOL, L23 6TZ
ODS code N84020
2.0 km
LITHERLAND PRACTICE
LITHERLAND TOWN HALL H/C, HATTON HILL ROAD, LIVERPOOL, L21 9JN
ODS code N84605
2.4 km
LITHERLAND PRIMARY CARE WALK-IN SERVICE
HATTON HILL ROAD, LIVERPOOL, L21 9JN
ODS code Y02514
2.4 km
15 SEFTON ROAD
DOCTORS SURGERY, 15 SEFTON ROAD, LITHERLAND, LIVERPOOL, L21 9HA
ODS code N84035
2.6 km
RAWSON ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
138 RAWSON ROAD, SEAFORTH, LIVERPOOL, L21 1HP
ODS code N84615
2.7 km
NETHERTON SURGERY
NETHERTON HEALTH CENTRE, MAGDALEN SQUARE, BOOTLE, L30 5SP
ODS code N84630
2.9 km
GLOVERS LANE SURGERY
GLOVERS LANE, BOOTLE, L30 5TA
ODS code N84004
2.9 km
BRIDGE ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
66-88 BRIDGE ROAD, LITHERLAND, LIVERPOOL, L21 6PH
ODS code N84023
3.0 km
SEAFORTH VILLAGE SURGERY
20 SEAFORTH ROAD, LIVERPOOL, L21 3TA
ODS code N84043
3.1 km
MOORE STREET MEDICAL CENTRE
77 MOORE STREET, BOOTLE, L20 4SE
ODS code N84016
3.9 km
NORTH PARK HEALTH CENTRE
290 KNOWSLEY ROAD, BOOTLE, L20 5DQ
ODS code N84019
4.1 km
THE STRAND MEDICAL CENTRE
272 MARSH LANE, BOOTLE, L20 5BW
ODS code N84028
4.6 km
AINTREE PARK GROUP PRACTICE
46 MOSS LANE, ORRELL PARK, LIVERPOOL, L9 8AL
ODS code N82053
4.6 km
AINTREE ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
2 AINTREE ROAD, BOOTLE, L20 9DL
ODS code N84002
4.6 km
Showing 20 of 21 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Moor Close
BCT · Crosby
- 0.2 miles
Park Avenue
BCT · Moor Park
- 0.2 miles
Moor Coppice
BCT · Moor Park
- 0.2 miles
Moor Drive
BCT · Crosby
- 0.2 miles
Moor Lane
BCT · Crosby
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Sefton 025A, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
28,991 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
1,901 published events cover 12 months, averaging 158.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 806 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.