Schools
44 open schools are in scope, including 30 primary and 7 secondary schools. Deyes High School is the nearest published school at 475 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
L31 7BY
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 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- L31 7BY
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- L
- Postcode district
- L31
- Postcode sector
- L31 7
- Latitude
- 53.514380
- Longitude
- -2.947568
- British National Grid easting
- 337,263
- British National Grid northing
- 402,383
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
- E00035818
- Lower layer super output area
- Sefton 020D · E01007072
- Middle layer super output area
- Sefton 020 · E02001448
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
15 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 31, Shop Lane, Liverpool, L31 7BY | 3 August 2020 | £237,000 |
| 13, Shop Lane, Liverpool, L31 7BY | 31 January 2020 | £178,000 |
| 11, Shop Lane, Liverpool, L31 7BY | 17 May 2019 | £180,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 44
- Primary
- 30
- Secondary
- 7
- 475 m
Deyes High School
Academy converter
- 537 m
St Andrews Church of England Primary School, Maghull
Academy converter
- 667 m
Green Park Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 853
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 361
- Anti social behaviour 112
- Public order 78
- Criminal damage and arson 76
- Shoplifting 45
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 61
- Postcode households
- 26
- Residents per household
- 2.3
- L31 7 residents
- 2,732
33 female, 28 male
Age bands in L31 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 19%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 28.3%
328 residents
226 residents
468 residents
749 residents
698 residents
This postcode contained 2.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider L31 7 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
10
within 5 km
MAGHULL FAMILY SURGERY
MAGHULL HEALTH CENTRE, WESTWAY, MAGHULL, LIVERPOOL, L31 0DJ
ODS code N84010
278 m
MAGHULL PRACTICE
MAGHULL HEALTH CENTRE, WESTWAY, MAGHULL, LIVERPOOL, L31 0DJ
ODS code Y00446
278 m
WESTWAY MEDICAL CENTRE
WESTWAY, MAGHULL, LIVERPOOL, L31 0DJ
ODS code N84025
278 m
HIGH PASTURES SURGERY
138 LIVERPOOL ROAD NORTH, MAGHULL, LIVERPOOL, L31 2HW
ODS code N84003
562 m
NETHERTON SURGERY
NETHERTON HEALTH CENTRE, MAGDALEN SQUARE, BOOTLE, L30 5SP
ODS code N84630
3.3 km
GLOVERS LANE SURGERY
GLOVERS LANE, BOOTLE, L30 5TA
ODS code N84004
3.3 km
GREAT CROSBY AND THORNTON
THORNTON FAMILY HC, BRETLANDS ROAD, THORNTON, LIVERPOOL, L23 1TQ
ODS code N84621
3.8 km
AUGHTON SURGERY
19 TOWN GREEN LANE, AUGHTON, ORMSKIRK, L39 6SE
ODS code P81695
4.4 km
DR MAASSARANI & PARTNERS
EBONY WAY, KIRKBY, LIVERPOOL, L33 1XT
ODS code N83608
4.6 km
FORD MEDICAL PRACTICE
93 GORSEY LANE, FORD, LIVERPOOL, L21 0DF
ODS code N84029
4.9 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
- 0.1 miles
Stafford Moreton Way
BCT · Maghull
- 0.1 miles
Maghull Library
BCT · Maghull
- 0.1 miles
Shop Lane
BCT · Maghull
- 0.1 miles
Balmoral Road
BCT · Maghull
- 0.2 miles
Milton Way
BCT · Maghull
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Sefton 020D, 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
24,834 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
- 8
- Medium risk addresses
- 2
- Low risk addresses
- 2
- 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
853 published events cover 12 months, averaging 71.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 361 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.