Schools
12 open schools are in scope, including 9 primary and 2 secondary schools. Woodlands Primary School is the nearest published school at 615 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
L37 1QF
Formby West · Sefton · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Formby West
- Local authority
- Sefton
- Constituency
- Sefton Central
- Postcode district
- L37
- Postcode sector
- L37 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- L37 1QF
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 June 1998
- Terminated
- 1 June 2001
- Postcode area
- L
- Postcode district
- L37
- Postcode sector
- L37 1
- Latitude
- 53.561406
- Longitude
- -3.079454
- British National Grid easting
- 328,597
- British National Grid northing
- 407,739
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Sefton · E08000014
- Electoral ward
- Formby West · E05016335
- Parish or community
- E04000038
- Westminster constituency
- Sefton Central · E14001463
- Output area
- E00035427
- Lower layer super output area
- Sefton 013D · E01006989
- Middle layer super output area
- Sefton 013 · E02001441
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 L37
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 12
- Primary
- 9
- Secondary
- 2
- 615 m
Woodlands Primary School
Community school
- 761 m
Formby High School
Academy converter
- 761 m
St Jerome's Catholic Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 605
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 212
- Anti social behaviour 98
- Shoplifting 76
- Public order 52
- Criminal damage and arson 40
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- L37 1 residents
- 2,568
Age bands in L37 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 7.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 13.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 37.6%
319 residents
183 residents
305 residents
637 residents
870 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
3
within 5 km straight-line
CHAPEL LANE SURGERY
13 CHAPEL LANE, FORMBY, LIVERPOOL, L37 4DL
ODS code N84006
1.3 km
THE VILLAGE SURGERY FORMBY
12 ELBOW LANE, FORMBY, LIVERPOOL, L37 4AW
ODS code N84018
1.3 km
HIGHTOWN VILLAGE SURGERY
1 ST GEORGES ROAD, HIGHTOWN, LIVERPOOL, L38 3RY
ODS code N84626
3.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Wicks Green
BCT · Formby
- 0.1 miles
Barkfield Lane
BCT · Freshfield
- 0.2 miles
Birch Green
BCT · Freshfield
- 0.2 miles
Squirrel Green
BCT · Freshfield
- 0.2 miles
Harington Close
BCT · Formby
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Sefton 013D, 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
27,686 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 10 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
605 published events cover 12 months, averaging 50.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 212 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.