Schools
43 open schools are in scope, including 30 primary and 6 secondary schools. Finch Woods Academy is the nearest published school at 523 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
L26 8UB
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 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- L26 8UB
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1981
- Postcode area
- L
- Postcode district
- L26
- Postcode sector
- L26 8
- Latitude
- 53.359017
- Longitude
- -2.827864
- British National Grid easting
- 345,000
- British National Grid northing
- 385,000
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
- E00032575
- Lower layer super output area
- Knowsley 020A · E01006426
- Middle layer super output area
- Knowsley 020 · E02001346
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
- 43
- Primary
- 30
- Secondary
- 6
- 523 m
Finch Woods Academy
Academy special sponsor led
- 553 m
St Mark's Catholic Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 773 m
Halewood Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,469
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 566
- Criminal damage and arson 180
- Anti social behaviour 174
- Public order 132
- Shoplifting 121
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- L26 8 residents
- 1
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
18
within 5 km
ROSEHEATH SURGERY
ROSEHEATH DRIVE, HALEWOOD, LIVERPOOL, L26 9UH
ODS code N83031
152 m
THE HEALTH CENTRE SURGERY
THE HALEWOOD CENTRE, ROSEHEATH DRIVE, LIVERPOOL, L26 9UH
ODS code N83013
152 m
HOLLIES MEDICAL CENTRE
HOLLIES ROAD, HALEWOOD VLGE, LIVERPOOL, L26 0TH
ODS code N83605
988 m
THE MARGARET THOMPSON MED CENTRE
105 EAST MILLWOOD ROAD, LIVERPOOL, L24 6TH
ODS code N82001
1.5 km
HILLFOOT HEALTH
HUNTS CROSS HEALTH CENTRE, 70 HILLFOOT ROAD, LIVERPOOL, L25 0ND
ODS code N82116
2.1 km
SPEKE HC - DR SINGH & DR BICHA
SPEKE NEIGHBOURHOOD HEALTH CENTRE, 75 SOUTH PARADE, SPEKE, LIVERPOOL, L24 2SF
ODS code N82650
2.1 km
SPEKE HC - DR THAKUR
75 SOUTH PARADE, SPEKE, LIVERPOOL, L24 2SF
ODS code N82109
2.1 km
WOOLTON HOUSE MEDICAL CTR
4/6 WOOLTON STREET, LIVERPOOL, L25 5JA
ODS code N82066
3.2 km
NETHERLEY HEALTH CENTRE
MIDDLEMASS HEY, NETHERLEY, LIVERPOOL, L27 7AF
ODS code N82036
3.4 km
THE VILLAGE MEDICAL CTRE
20 QUARRY STREET, WOOLTON, LIVERPOOL, L25 6HE
ODS code N82106
3.4 km
GATEACRE MEDICAL CENTRE
49 BELLE VALE ROAD, LIVERPOOL, L25 2PA
ODS code N82050
3.5 km
GATEACRE BROW SURGERY
1 GATEACRE BROW, LIVERPOOL, L25 3PA
ODS code N82084
3.6 km
THE BEECHES MEDICAL CTR
20 DITCHFIELD ROAD, WIDNES, WA8 8QS
ODS code N81037
4.1 km
BELLE VALE HEALTH CENTRE
HEDGEFIELD ROAD, LIVERPOOL, L25 2XE
ODS code N82094
4.2 km
MATHER AVENUE SURGERY
584 MATHER AVENUE, LIVERPOOL, L19 4UG
ODS code N82035
4.4 km
HOUGH GREEN HEALTH PARK
HOUGH GREEN ROAD, WIDNES, WA8 4PF
ODS code N81119
4.5 km
GARSTON FAMILY HEALTH CENTRE
SOUTH LIVERPOOL NHS T/C, 32 CHURCH ROAD, GARSTON, LIVERPOOL, L19 2LW
ODS code N82004
4.6 km
THE VILLAGE SURGERY
SOUTH LIVERPOOL NHS T.CTR, 32 CHURCH ROAD, GARSTON, LIVERPOOL, L19 2LW
ODS code N82034
4.6 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
- 0.0 miles
Roseheath Drive
BCT · Halewood
- 0.0 miles
Roseheath Drive
BCT · Halewood
- 0.1 miles
Halewood Shopping Centre
BCT · Halewood
- 0.1 miles
Barn Croft Road
BCT · Halewood
- 0.1 miles
Barn Croft Road
BCT · Halewood
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Knowsley 020A, 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
1,119 of 33,755
- Income
- 1 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
1,469 published events cover 12 months, averaging 122.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 566 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.