Property market
The five-year median is £150,000 from 3 recorded sales in L23 4TA. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Sefton is £225,433 in June 2026, up 5.2% year on year.
L23 4TA
Thornton & Hightown · Sefton · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Liverpool
- Ward
- Thornton & Hightown
- Local authority
- Sefton
- Constituency
- Sefton Central
- Postcode district
- L23
- Postcode sector
- L23 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- L23 4TA
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- L
- Postcode district
- L23
- Postcode sector
- L23 4
- Latitude
- 53.499586
- Longitude
- -3.005731
- British National Grid easting
- 333,383
- British National Grid northing
- 400,790
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Sefton · E08000014
- Electoral ward
- Thornton & Hightown · E05016345
- Parish or community
- E04000036
- Westminster constituency
- Sefton Central · E14001463
- Output area
- E00035706
- Lower layer super output area
- Sefton 021E · E01007037
- Middle layer super output area
- Sefton 021 · E02001449
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
Property
18 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 4, The Crescent, Thornton, Liverpool, L23 4TA | 27 March 2026 | £150,000 |
| 2a, The Crescent, Thornton, Liverpool, L23 4TA | 6 December 2024 | £230,000 |
| 9a, The Crescent, Thornton, Liverpool, L23 4TA | 26 April 2022 | £86,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 63
- Primary
- 41
- Secondary
- 10
- 162 m
Holy Family Catholic High School
Voluntary aided school
- 449 m
Jigsaw Primary Pupil Referral Unit
Pupil referral unit
- 502 m
St William of York Catholic Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,169
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 510
- Anti social behaviour 109
- Public order 103
- Criminal damage and arson 101
- Shoplifting 100
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 5
- Postcode households
- 4
- Residents per household
- 1.3
- L23 4 residents
- 1,080
2 female, 3 male
Age bands in L23 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 7.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 20.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 30.1%
157 residents
88 residents
229 residents
319 residents
342 residents
This postcode contained 0.5% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider L23 4 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
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.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 94.4%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 94.4%
- Gigabit-capable
- 94.4%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
23
within 5 km
GREAT CROSBY AND THORNTON
THORNTON FAMILY HC, BRETLANDS ROAD, THORNTON, LIVERPOOL, L23 1TQ
ODS code N84621
598 m
LIVERPOOL RD MEDICAL PRACTICE
133 LIVERPOOL ROAD, CROSBY, LIVERPOOL, L23 5TE
ODS code N84007
1.9 km
FORD MEDICAL PRACTICE
93 GORSEY LANE, FORD, LIVERPOOL, L21 0DF
ODS code N84029
2.1 km
42 KINGSWAY
KINGSWAY, WATERLOO, LIVERPOOL, L22 4RQ
ODS code N84001
2.3 km
KINGSWAY SURGERY
30 KINGSWAY, WATERLOO, LIVERPOOL, L22 4RQ
ODS code N84041
2.3 km
EASTVIEW SURGERY
81-83 CROSBY ROAD NORTH, WATERLOO, LIVERPOOL, L22 4QD
ODS code N84011
2.5 km
NETHERTON SURGERY
NETHERTON HEALTH CENTRE, MAGDALEN SQUARE, BOOTLE, L30 5SP
ODS code N84630
2.5 km
GLOVERS LANE SURGERY
GLOVERS LANE, BOOTLE, L30 5TA
ODS code N84004
2.6 km
BLUNDELLSANDS SURGERY
1 WARREN ROAD, BLUNDELLSANDS, LIVERPOOL, L23 6TZ
ODS code N84020
2.9 km
LITHERLAND PRACTICE
LITHERLAND TOWN HALL H/C, HATTON HILL ROAD, LIVERPOOL, L21 9JN
ODS code N84605
3.0 km
LITHERLAND PRIMARY CARE WALK-IN SERVICE
HATTON HILL ROAD, LIVERPOOL, L21 9JN
ODS code Y02514
3.0 km
15 SEFTON ROAD
DOCTORS SURGERY, 15 SEFTON ROAD, LITHERLAND, LIVERPOOL, L21 9HA
ODS code N84035
3.2 km
RAWSON ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
138 RAWSON ROAD, SEAFORTH, LIVERPOOL, L21 1HP
ODS code N84615
3.5 km
BRIDGE ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
66-88 BRIDGE ROAD, LITHERLAND, LIVERPOOL, L21 6PH
ODS code N84023
3.6 km
SEAFORTH VILLAGE SURGERY
20 SEAFORTH ROAD, LIVERPOOL, L21 3TA
ODS code N84043
3.7 km
MAGHULL FAMILY SURGERY
MAGHULL HEALTH CENTRE, WESTWAY, MAGHULL, LIVERPOOL, L31 0DJ
ODS code N84010
4.5 km
MAGHULL PRACTICE
MAGHULL HEALTH CENTRE, WESTWAY, MAGHULL, LIVERPOOL, L31 0DJ
ODS code Y00446
4.5 km
WESTWAY MEDICAL CENTRE
WESTWAY, MAGHULL, LIVERPOOL, L31 0DJ
ODS code N84025
4.5 km
HIGH PASTURES SURGERY
138 LIVERPOOL ROAD NORTH, MAGHULL, LIVERPOOL, L31 2HW
ODS code N84003
4.5 km
MOORE STREET MEDICAL CENTRE
77 MOORE STREET, BOOTLE, L20 4SE
ODS code N84016
4.6 km
Showing 20 of 23 matching practices.
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Edge Lane
BCT · Thornton
- 0.1 miles
Virgin's Lane
BCT · Thornton
- 0.1 miles
Virgin's Lane
BCT · Thornton
- 0.1 miles
Hartdale Road
BCT · Thornton
- 0.2 miles
Green Lane
BCT · Thornton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Sefton 021E, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
24,737 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 2
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Schools
63 open schools are in scope, including 41 primary and 10 secondary schools. Holy Family Catholic High School is the nearest published school at 162 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
1,169 published events cover 12 months, averaging 97.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 510 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.