Property market
The five-year median is £194,998 from 4 recorded sales in L31 2LZ. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Sefton is £225,433 in June 2026, up 5.2% year on year.
L31 2LZ
Lydiate & Maghull West · Sefton · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Liverpool
- Local authority
- Sefton
- Constituency
- Sefton Central
- Postcode district
- L31
- Postcode sector
- L31 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- L31 2LZ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- L
- Postcode district
- L31
- Postcode sector
- L31 2
- Latitude
- 53.522890
- Longitude
- -2.945616
- British National Grid easting
- 337,405
- British National Grid northing
- 403,328
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
- E04000032
- Westminster constituency
- Sefton Central · E14001463
- Output area
- E00035933
- Lower layer super output area
- Sefton 017E · E01007101
- Middle layer super output area
- Sefton 017 · E02001445
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
Property
32 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 42, Liverpool Road, Lydiate, Liverpool, L31 2LZ | 25 November 2025 | £140,000 |
| 6, Liverpool Road, Lydiate, Liverpool, L31 2LZ | 28 March 2025 | £249,995 |
| 4, Liverpool Road, Lydiate, Liverpool, L31 2LZ | 21 March 2025 | £258,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 33
- Primary
- 25
- Secondary
- 4
- 483 m
Lydiate Primary School
Community school
- 594 m
St Thomas Church of England Primary School, Lydiate
Academy converter
- 658 m
St Gregory's Catholic Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 655
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 279
- Anti social behaviour 78
- Criminal damage and arson 57
- Public order 54
- Shoplifting 41
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 50
- Postcode households
- 22
- Residents per household
- 2.3
- L31 2 residents
- 3,453
20 female, 30 male
Age bands in L31 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 21%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29%
- Age 65 and over
- 26.8%
566 residents
358 residents
837 residents
1,155 residents
1,068 residents
This postcode contained 1.4% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider L31 2 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+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- 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
9
within 5 km straight-line
HIGH PASTURES SURGERY
138 LIVERPOOL ROAD NORTH, MAGHULL, LIVERPOOL, L31 2HW
ODS code N84003
394 m
MAGHULL FAMILY SURGERY
MAGHULL HEALTH CENTRE, WESTWAY, MAGHULL, LIVERPOOL, L31 0DJ
ODS code N84010
818 m
MAGHULL PRACTICE
MAGHULL HEALTH CENTRE, WESTWAY, MAGHULL, LIVERPOOL, L31 0DJ
ODS code Y00446
818 m
WESTWAY MEDICAL CENTRE
WESTWAY, MAGHULL, LIVERPOOL, L31 0DJ
ODS code N84025
818 m
AUGHTON SURGERY
19 TOWN GREEN LANE, AUGHTON, ORMSKIRK, L39 6SE
ODS code P81695
3.7 km
NETHERTON SURGERY
NETHERTON HEALTH CENTRE, MAGDALEN SQUARE, BOOTLE, L30 5SP
ODS code N84630
4.2 km
GLOVERS LANE SURGERY
GLOVERS LANE, BOOTLE, L30 5TA
ODS code N84004
4.2 km
GREAT CROSBY AND THORNTON
THORNTON FAMILY HC, BRETLANDS ROAD, THORNTON, LIVERPOOL, L23 1TQ
ODS code N84621
4.5 km
DR MAASSARANI & PARTNERS
EBONY WAY, KIRKBY, LIVERPOOL, L33 1XT
ODS code N83608
5.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Virginia Avenue
BCT · Lydiate
- 0.0 miles
Coronation Road
BCT · Lydiate
- 0.1 miles
Clent Avenue
BCT · Lydiate
- 0.1 miles
Nedens Lane
BCT · Lydiate
- 0.1 miles
Oakhill Drive
BCT · Lydiate
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Sefton 017E, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
27,741 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 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.
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
- 3
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 5
- 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
Schools
33 open schools are in scope, including 25 primary and 4 secondary schools. Lydiate Primary School is the nearest published school at 483 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
655 published events cover 12 months, averaging 54.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 279 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.