Schools
59 open schools are in scope, including 37 primary and 10 secondary schools. Maghull High School is the nearest published school at 818 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
L31 8BT
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 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- L31 8BT
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- L
- Postcode district
- L31
- Postcode sector
- L31 8
- Latitude
- 53.507752
- Longitude
- -2.962620
- British National Grid easting
- 336,255
- British National Grid northing
- 401,659
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
- E00035820
- Lower layer super output area
- Sefton 020C · E01007071
- 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
2 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 102, Sefton Lane, Liverpool, L31 8BT | 27 March 2014 | £240,000 |
| 142, Sefton Lane, Liverpool, L31 8BT | 17 February 1995 | £64,950 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 59
- Primary
- 37
- Secondary
- 10
- 818 m
Maghull High School
Academy converter
- 1.3 km
St John Bosco Catholic Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 1.4 km
St George's Catholic Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 401
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 150
- Anti social behaviour 48
- Public order 46
- Shoplifting 41
- Criminal damage and arson 38
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 8
- Postcode households
- 4
- Residents per household
- 2.0
- L31 8 residents
- 2,909
4 female, 4 male
Age bands in L31 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 19.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 31.3%
374 residents
238 residents
545 residents
758 residents
873 residents
This postcode contained 0.3% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider L31 8 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+
- 83.3%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 83.3%
- Gigabit-capable
- 83.3%
- 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
15
within 5 km
MAGHULL FAMILY SURGERY
MAGHULL HEALTH CENTRE, WESTWAY, MAGHULL, LIVERPOOL, L31 0DJ
ODS code N84010
1.5 km
MAGHULL PRACTICE
MAGHULL HEALTH CENTRE, WESTWAY, MAGHULL, LIVERPOOL, L31 0DJ
ODS code Y00446
1.5 km
WESTWAY MEDICAL CENTRE
WESTWAY, MAGHULL, LIVERPOOL, L31 0DJ
ODS code N84025
1.5 km
HIGH PASTURES SURGERY
138 LIVERPOOL ROAD NORTH, MAGHULL, LIVERPOOL, L31 2HW
ODS code N84003
1.7 km
NETHERTON SURGERY
NETHERTON HEALTH CENTRE, MAGDALEN SQUARE, BOOTLE, L30 5SP
ODS code N84630
2.2 km
GLOVERS LANE SURGERY
GLOVERS LANE, BOOTLE, L30 5TA
ODS code N84004
2.3 km
GREAT CROSBY AND THORNTON
THORNTON FAMILY HC, BRETLANDS ROAD, THORNTON, LIVERPOOL, L23 1TQ
ODS code N84621
2.6 km
FORD MEDICAL PRACTICE
93 GORSEY LANE, FORD, LIVERPOOL, L21 0DF
ODS code N84029
3.7 km
POULTER ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
34 POULTER ROAD, LIVERPOOL, L9 0HJ
ODS code N82648
4.6 km
LIVERPOOL RD MEDICAL PRACTICE
133 LIVERPOOL ROAD, CROSBY, LIVERPOOL, L23 5TE
ODS code N84007
4.7 km
LITHERLAND PRACTICE
LITHERLAND TOWN HALL H/C, HATTON HILL ROAD, LIVERPOOL, L21 9JN
ODS code N84605
4.7 km
LITHERLAND PRIMARY CARE WALK-IN SERVICE
HATTON HILL ROAD, LIVERPOOL, L21 9JN
ODS code Y02514
4.7 km
15 SEFTON ROAD
DOCTORS SURGERY, 15 SEFTON ROAD, LITHERLAND, LIVERPOOL, L21 9HA
ODS code N84035
4.8 km
42 KINGSWAY
KINGSWAY, WATERLOO, LIVERPOOL, L22 4RQ
ODS code N84001
4.8 km
KINGSWAY SURGERY
30 KINGSWAY, WATERLOO, LIVERPOOL, L22 4RQ
ODS code N84041
4.8 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
Bridges Lane
BCT · Maghull
- 0.1 miles
Sefton Lane Industrial Park
BCT · Maghull
- 0.3 miles
Old Racecourse Road
BCT · Maghull
- 0.3 miles
Sefton Drive
BCT · Maghull
- 0.4 miles
Sefton Mill Lane
BCT · Sefton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Sefton 020C, 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
29,374 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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
- 5
- Medium risk addresses
- 2
- 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
401 published events cover 12 months, averaging 33.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 150 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.