Schools
81 open schools are in scope, including 53 primary and 13 secondary schools. Waterside Academy is the nearest published school at 558 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
L29 1YB
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
- L29
- Postcode sector
- L29 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- L29 1YB
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- L
- Postcode district
- L29
- Postcode sector
- L29 1
- Latitude
- 53.491685
- Longitude
- -2.988422
- British National Grid easting
- 334,519
- British National Grid northing
- 399,895
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Sefton · E08000014
- Electoral ward
- Thornton & Hightown · E05016345
- Parish or community
- E04000035
- Westminster constituency
- Sefton Central · E14001463
- Output area
- E00035699
- Lower layer super output area
- Sefton 021F · E01007038
- 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 L29
Property
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Orchard Farm, Buckley Hill Lane, Liverpool, L29 1YB | 6 July 2018 | £210,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 81
- Primary
- 53
- Secondary
- 13
- 558 m
Waterside Academy
Academy alternative provision sponsor led
- 758 m
The Grange Primary School
Academy converter
- 767 m
Newfield School
Community special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,462
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,126
- Criminal damage and arson 244
- Public order 236
- Anti social behaviour 202
- Drugs 193
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 5
- Postcode households
- 1
- Residents per household
- 5.0
- L29 1 residents
- 5
3 female, 2 male
This postcode contained 100% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider L29 1 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+
- 50%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 50%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 50%
- Gigabit-capable
- 50%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 50%
- 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
32
within 5 km
GREAT CROSBY AND THORNTON
THORNTON FAMILY HC, BRETLANDS ROAD, THORNTON, LIVERPOOL, L23 1TQ
ODS code N84621
863 m
NETHERTON SURGERY
NETHERTON HEALTH CENTRE, MAGDALEN SQUARE, BOOTLE, L30 5SP
ODS code N84630
1.1 km
GLOVERS LANE SURGERY
GLOVERS LANE, BOOTLE, L30 5TA
ODS code N84004
1.2 km
FORD MEDICAL PRACTICE
93 GORSEY LANE, FORD, LIVERPOOL, L21 0DF
ODS code N84029
1.3 km
LITHERLAND PRACTICE
LITHERLAND TOWN HALL H/C, HATTON HILL ROAD, LIVERPOOL, L21 9JN
ODS code N84605
2.3 km
LITHERLAND PRIMARY CARE WALK-IN SERVICE
HATTON HILL ROAD, LIVERPOOL, L21 9JN
ODS code Y02514
2.3 km
LIVERPOOL RD MEDICAL PRACTICE
133 LIVERPOOL ROAD, CROSBY, LIVERPOOL, L23 5TE
ODS code N84007
2.4 km
15 SEFTON ROAD
DOCTORS SURGERY, 15 SEFTON ROAD, LITHERLAND, LIVERPOOL, L21 9HA
ODS code N84035
2.4 km
42 KINGSWAY
KINGSWAY, WATERLOO, LIVERPOOL, L22 4RQ
ODS code N84001
2.4 km
KINGSWAY SURGERY
30 KINGSWAY, WATERLOO, LIVERPOOL, L22 4RQ
ODS code N84041
2.4 km
EASTVIEW SURGERY
81-83 CROSBY ROAD NORTH, WATERLOO, LIVERPOOL, L22 4QD
ODS code N84011
2.7 km
BRIDGE ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
66-88 BRIDGE ROAD, LITHERLAND, LIVERPOOL, L21 6PH
ODS code N84023
2.8 km
RAWSON ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
138 RAWSON ROAD, SEAFORTH, LIVERPOOL, L21 1HP
ODS code N84615
3.1 km
SEAFORTH VILLAGE SURGERY
20 SEAFORTH ROAD, LIVERPOOL, L21 3TA
ODS code N84043
3.1 km
AINTREE PARK GROUP PRACTICE
46 MOSS LANE, ORRELL PARK, LIVERPOOL, L9 8AL
ODS code N82053
3.5 km
BLUNDELLSANDS SURGERY
1 WARREN ROAD, BLUNDELLSANDS, LIVERPOOL, L23 6TZ
ODS code N84020
3.6 km
POULTER ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
34 POULTER ROAD, LIVERPOOL, L9 0HJ
ODS code N82648
3.7 km
ORRELL PARK MEDICAL CENTRE
TRINITY CHURCH, ORRELL LANE, LIVERPOOL, L9 8BU
ODS code N84027
3.7 km
NORTH PARK HEALTH CENTRE
290 KNOWSLEY ROAD, BOOTLE, L20 5DQ
ODS code N84019
3.7 km
MOORE STREET MEDICAL CENTRE
77 MOORE STREET, BOOTLE, L20 4SE
ODS code N84016
3.8 km
Showing 20 of 32 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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Granams Croft
BCT · Buckley Hill
- 0.1 miles
Granams Croft
BCT · Buckley Hill
- 0.1 miles
Gorsey Lane
BCT · Netherton
- 0.1 miles
Almonds Turn
BCT · Buckley Hill
- 0.2 miles
Red Lomes
BCT · Sefton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Sefton 021F, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
11,046 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
- 1
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- 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
2,462 published events cover 12 months, averaging 205.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,126 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.