Schools
42 open schools are in scope, including 30 primary and 6 secondary schools. Deyes High School is the nearest published school at 300 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
L31 0AF
Lydiate & Maghull West · Sefton · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Sefton
- Constituency
- Sefton Central
- Postcode district
- L31
- Postcode sector
- L31 0
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- L31 0AF
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1999
- Postcode area
- L
- Postcode district
- L31
- Postcode sector
- L31 0
- Latitude
- 53.516467
- Longitude
- -2.942819
- British National Grid easting
- 337,581
- British National Grid northing
- 402,611
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Sefton · E08000014
- Electoral ward
- Lydiate & Maghull West · E05016339
- Parish or community
- E04000033
- Westminster constituency
- Sefton Central · E14001463
- Output area
- E00035958
- Lower layer super output area
- Sefton 018C · E01007095
- Middle layer super output area
- Sefton 018 · E02001446
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 L31
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 42
- Primary
- 30
- Secondary
- 6
- 300 m
Deyes High School
Academy converter
- 452 m
St Andrews Church of England Primary School, Maghull
Academy converter
- 687 m
Northway Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 885
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 384
- Anti social behaviour 116
- Public order 79
- Criminal damage and arson 78
- Shoplifting 44
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- L31 0 residents
- 1,983
Age bands in L31 0
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10%
- Age 25 to 44
- 19.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 29.3%
279 residents
207 residents
413 residents
570 residents
608 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
9
within 5 km
MAGHULL FAMILY SURGERY
MAGHULL HEALTH CENTRE, WESTWAY, MAGHULL, LIVERPOOL, L31 0DJ
ODS code N84010
120 m
MAGHULL PRACTICE
MAGHULL HEALTH CENTRE, WESTWAY, MAGHULL, LIVERPOOL, L31 0DJ
ODS code Y00446
120 m
WESTWAY MEDICAL CENTRE
WESTWAY, MAGHULL, LIVERPOOL, L31 0DJ
ODS code N84025
120 m
HIGH PASTURES SURGERY
138 LIVERPOOL ROAD NORTH, MAGHULL, LIVERPOOL, L31 2HW
ODS code N84003
409 m
NETHERTON SURGERY
NETHERTON HEALTH CENTRE, MAGDALEN SQUARE, BOOTLE, L30 5SP
ODS code N84630
3.7 km
GLOVERS LANE SURGERY
GLOVERS LANE, BOOTLE, L30 5TA
ODS code N84004
3.7 km
AUGHTON SURGERY
19 TOWN GREEN LANE, AUGHTON, ORMSKIRK, L39 6SE
ODS code P81695
4.0 km
GREAT CROSBY AND THORNTON
THORNTON FAMILY HC, BRETLANDS ROAD, THORNTON, LIVERPOOL, L23 1TQ
ODS code N84621
4.2 km
DR MAASSARANI & PARTNERS
EBONY WAY, KIRKBY, LIVERPOOL, L33 1XT
ODS code N83608
4.4 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
Central Square
BCT · Maghull
- 0.1 miles
Central Square
BCT · Maghull
- 0.1 miles
Westway
BCT · Maghull
- 0.1 miles
Hunt Road
BCT · Maghull
- 0.1 miles
Eastway
BCT · Maghull
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Sefton 018C, 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
25,663 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 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
885 published events cover 12 months, averaging 73.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 384 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.