Schools
52 open schools are in scope, including 36 primary and 7 secondary schools. Melling Primary School is the nearest published school at 985 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
L31 1AH
Aintree & Maghull South · Sefton · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Sefton
- Constituency
- Sefton Central
- Postcode district
- L31
- Postcode sector
- L31 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- L31 1AH
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- L
- Postcode district
- L31
- Postcode sector
- L31 1
- Latitude
- 53.498194
- Longitude
- -2.909037
- British National Grid easting
- 339,795
- British National Grid northing
- 400,549
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Sefton · E08000014
- Electoral ward
- Aintree & Maghull South · E05016326
- Parish or community
- E04000034
- Westminster constituency
- Sefton Central · E14001463
- Output area
- E00035694
- Lower layer super output area
- Sefton 026B · E01007040
- Middle layer super output area
- Sefton 026 · E02001454
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
- 52
- Primary
- 36
- Secondary
- 7
- 985 m
Melling Primary School
Community school
- 1.5 km
Ravenscroft Community Primary School
Community school
- 1.5 km
Summerhill Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 834
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 389
- Criminal damage and arson 94
- Drugs 68
- Public order 68
- Other theft 67
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 10
- Postcode households
- 3
- Residents per household
- 3.3
- L31 1 residents
- 4,971
3 female, 7 male
Age bands in L31 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 27.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 15%
979 residents
617 residents
1,485 residents
1,548 residents
817 residents
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider L31 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+
- 100%
- 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
16
within 5 km straight-line
DR MAASSARANI & PARTNERS
EBONY WAY, KIRKBY, LIVERPOOL, L33 1XT
ODS code N83608
1.5 km
THE MACMILLAN SURGERY
ST. CHADS WALK IN CENTRE, ST. CHADS DRIVE, LIVERPOOL, L32 8RE
ODS code N83601
2.4 km
WINGATE MEDICAL CENTRE
79 BIGDALE DRIVE, KIRKBY, LIVERPOOL, L33 6YJ
ODS code N83009
2.5 km
MILLBROOK MEDICAL CENTRE
SOUTHDENE PCRC, BEWLEY DRIVE, KIRKBY, LIVERPOOL, L32 9PF
ODS code N83032
2.9 km
MAGHULL FAMILY SURGERY
MAGHULL HEALTH CENTRE, WESTWAY, MAGHULL, LIVERPOOL, L31 0DJ
ODS code N84010
3.0 km
MAGHULL PRACTICE
MAGHULL HEALTH CENTRE, WESTWAY, MAGHULL, LIVERPOOL, L31 0DJ
ODS code Y00446
3.0 km
WESTWAY MEDICAL CENTRE
WESTWAY, MAGHULL, LIVERPOOL, L31 0DJ
ODS code N84025
3.0 km
ST. LAURENCE'S MEDICAL CENTRE
32 LEESIDE AVENUE, LIVERPOOL, L32 9QU
ODS code N83033
3.1 km
HIGH PASTURES SURGERY
138 LIVERPOOL ROAD NORTH, MAGHULL, LIVERPOOL, L31 2HW
ODS code N84003
3.4 km
WESTMORELAND GP CENTRE
UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL AINTREE, FAZAKERLEY, LIVERPOOL, L9 7AL
ODS code N82037
3.8 km
GLOVERS LANE SURGERY
GLOVERS LANE, BOOTLE, L30 5TA
ODS code N84004
4.3 km
NETHERTON SURGERY
NETHERTON HEALTH CENTRE, MAGDALEN SQUARE, BOOTLE, L30 5SP
ODS code N84630
4.3 km
GILLMOSS MEDICAL CENTRE
48 PETHERICK ROAD, LIVERPOOL, L11 0AG
ODS code N82087
4.4 km
POULTER ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
34 POULTER ROAD, LIVERPOOL, L9 0HJ
ODS code N82648
4.5 km
MOSS WAY
51 MOSS WAY, LIVERPOOL, L11 0BL
ODS code N82655
4.6 km
LONG LANE
LONG LANE MEDICAL CENTRE, LONG LANE, WALTON, LIVERPOOL, L9 6DQ
ODS code N82110
4.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Tithebarn Lane
BCT · Melling
- 0.1 miles
Tithebarn Lane
BCT · Melling
- 0.3 miles
School Lane
BCT · Melling
- 0.3 miles
School Lane
BCT · Melling
- 0.4 miles
Prescot Road
BCT · Melling
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Sefton 026B, 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
12,335 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 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
- 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
834 published events cover 12 months, averaging 69.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 389 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.