Schools
42 open schools are in scope, including 30 primary and 5 secondary schools. Finch Woods Academy is the nearest published school at 736 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
L26 3UD
Halewood South · Knowsley · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Halewood South
- Local authority
- Knowsley
- Constituency
- Widnes and Halewood
- Postcode district
- L26
- Postcode sector
- L26 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- L26 3UD
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- L
- Postcode district
- L26
- Postcode sector
- L26 3
- Latitude
- 53.363942
- Longitude
- -2.810934
- British National Grid easting
- 346,133
- British National Grid northing
- 385,535
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Knowsley · E08000011
- Electoral ward
- Halewood South · E05010937
- Parish or community
- E04000017
- Westminster constituency
- Widnes and Halewood · E14001584
- Output area
- E00032549
- Lower layer super output area
- Knowsley 017A · E01006420
- Middle layer super output area
- Knowsley 017 · E02001343
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 L26
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 42
- Primary
- 30
- Secondary
- 5
- 736 m
Finch Woods Academy
Academy special sponsor led
- 990 m
St Mark's Catholic Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 1.1 km
Halewood Church of England Primary Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 776
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 295
- Anti social behaviour 104
- Criminal damage and arson 100
- Public order 74
- Drugs 50
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 65
- Postcode households
- 48
- Residents per household
- 1.4
- L26 3 residents
- 92
33 female, 32 male
This postcode contained 70.7% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider L26 3 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+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- 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
19
within 5 km
ROSEHEATH SURGERY
ROSEHEATH DRIVE, HALEWOOD, LIVERPOOL, L26 9UH
ODS code N83031
1.1 km
THE HEALTH CENTRE SURGERY
THE HALEWOOD CENTRE, ROSEHEATH DRIVE, LIVERPOOL, L26 9UH
ODS code N83013
1.1 km
HOLLIES MEDICAL CENTRE
HOLLIES ROAD, HALEWOOD VLGE, LIVERPOOL, L26 0TH
ODS code N83605
1.3 km
THE MARGARET THOMPSON MED CENTRE
105 EAST MILLWOOD ROAD, LIVERPOOL, L24 6TH
ODS code N82001
2.1 km
THE BEECHES MEDICAL CTR
20 DITCHFIELD ROAD, WIDNES, WA8 8QS
ODS code N81037
3.0 km
SPEKE HC - DR SINGH & DR BICHA
SPEKE NEIGHBOURHOOD HEALTH CENTRE, 75 SOUTH PARADE, SPEKE, LIVERPOOL, L24 2SF
ODS code N82650
3.2 km
SPEKE HC - DR THAKUR
75 SOUTH PARADE, SPEKE, LIVERPOOL, L24 2SF
ODS code N82109
3.2 km
HILLFOOT HEALTH
HUNTS CROSS HEALTH CENTRE, 70 HILLFOOT ROAD, LIVERPOOL, L25 0ND
ODS code N82116
3.3 km
HOUGH GREEN HEALTH PARK
HOUGH GREEN ROAD, WIDNES, WA8 4PF
ODS code N81119
3.3 km
NETHERLEY HEALTH CENTRE
MIDDLEMASS HEY, NETHERLEY, LIVERPOOL, L27 7AF
ODS code N82036
3.3 km
UPTON ROCKS PRIMARY CARE
HEATH ROAD, WIDNES, WA8 7NU
ODS code N81651
3.9 km
GATEACRE MEDICAL CENTRE
49 BELLE VALE ROAD, LIVERPOOL, L25 2PA
ODS code N82050
3.9 km
WOOLTON HOUSE MEDICAL CTR
4/6 WOOLTON STREET, LIVERPOOL, L25 5JA
ODS code N82066
4.0 km
GATEACRE BROW SURGERY
1 GATEACRE BROW, LIVERPOOL, L25 3PA
ODS code N82084
4.1 km
THE VILLAGE MEDICAL CTRE
20 QUARRY STREET, WOOLTON, LIVERPOOL, L25 6HE
ODS code N82106
4.2 km
BELLE VALE HEALTH CENTRE
HEDGEFIELD ROAD, LIVERPOOL, L25 2XE
ODS code N82094
4.5 km
ASTON HEALTHCARE LIMITED
MANOR FARM RESOURCE CTR, MANOR FARM ROAD, HUYTON, LIVERPOOL, L36 0UB
ODS code N83028
4.7 km
TARBOCK MEDICAL CENTRE
MANOR FARM PRIMARY CARE R, MANOR FARM ROAD, HUYTON, LIVERPOOL, L36 0UB
ODS code N83047
4.7 km
FIR PARK MEDICAL CENTRE
UPTON ROCKS, WIDNES, WA8 9DT
ODS code N81035
4.7 km
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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Halewood Caravan Park
BCT · Halewood
- 0.1 miles
Halewood Caravan Park
BCT · Halewood
- 0.1 miles
Finch Lane
BCT · Halewood
- 0.3 miles
Ditton Fold Farm
BCT · Halewood
- 0.4 miles
Rawlinson Crescent
BCT · Halewood
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Knowsley 017A, 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
26,083 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 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.
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
- 1
- 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
Recorded crime
776 published events cover 12 months, averaging 64.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 295 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.