Schools
32 open schools are in scope, including 24 primary and 4 secondary schools. Lydiate Primary School is the nearest published school at 454 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
L31 2PX
Lydiate & Maghull West · Sefton · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Sefton
- Constituency
- Sefton Central
- Postcode district
- L31
- Postcode sector
- L31 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- L31 2PX
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 December 1996
- Terminated
- 1 June 1998
- Postcode area
- L
- Postcode district
- L31
- Postcode sector
- L31 2
- Latitude
- 53.523008
- Longitude
- -2.946630
- British National Grid easting
- 337,338
- British National Grid northing
- 403,342
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
- E00035795
- Lower layer super output area
- Sefton 017C · E01007069
- 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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 32
- Primary
- 24
- Secondary
- 4
- 454 m
Lydiate Primary School
Community school
- 636 m
St Gregory's Catholic Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 648 m
Green Park Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 642
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 270
- Anti social behaviour 75
- Criminal damage and arson 57
- Public order 54
- Shoplifting 41
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- L31 2 residents
- 3,453
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
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
8
within 5 km straight-line
HIGH PASTURES SURGERY
138 LIVERPOOL ROAD NORTH, MAGHULL, LIVERPOOL, L31 2HW
ODS code N84003
402 m
MAGHULL FAMILY SURGERY
MAGHULL HEALTH CENTRE, WESTWAY, MAGHULL, LIVERPOOL, L31 0DJ
ODS code N84010
842 m
MAGHULL PRACTICE
MAGHULL HEALTH CENTRE, WESTWAY, MAGHULL, LIVERPOOL, L31 0DJ
ODS code Y00446
842 m
WESTWAY MEDICAL CENTRE
WESTWAY, MAGHULL, LIVERPOOL, L31 0DJ
ODS code N84025
842 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
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Coronation Road
BCT · Lydiate
- 0.0 miles
Virginia Avenue
BCT · Lydiate
- 0.1 miles
Nedens Lane
BCT · Lydiate
- 0.1 miles
Clent Avenue
BCT · Lydiate
- 0.1 miles
Nedens Lane
BCT · Lydiate
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Sefton 017C, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
16,770 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 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
642 published events cover 12 months, averaging 53.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 270 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.