Schools
9 open schools are in scope, including 7 primary and 2 secondary schools. Range High School is the nearest published school at 269 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
L37 2FH
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 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- L37 2FH
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 March 1988
- Terminated
- 1 May 1994
- Postcode area
- L
- Postcode district
- L37
- Postcode sector
- L37 2
- Latitude
- 53.544825
- Longitude
- -3.085024
- British National Grid easting
- 328,200
- British National Grid northing
- 405,900
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
- E00035415
- Lower layer super output area
- Sefton 015C · E01006993
- Middle layer super output area
- Sefton 015 · E02001443
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
- 9
- Primary
- 7
- Secondary
- 2
- 269 m
Range High School
Academy converter
- 778 m
St Luke's Church of England Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
- 1.2 km
St Jerome's Catholic Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 273
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 104
- Anti social behaviour 49
- Public order 21
- Criminal damage and arson 21
- Other theft 16
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- L37 2 residents
- 4,889
Age bands in L37 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 17.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 30.8%
733 residents
490 residents
857 residents
1,390 residents
1,542 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
THE VILLAGE SURGERY FORMBY
12 ELBOW LANE, FORMBY, LIVERPOOL, L37 4AW
ODS code N84018
2.0 km
CHAPEL LANE SURGERY
13 CHAPEL LANE, FORMBY, LIVERPOOL, L37 4DL
ODS code N84006
2.1 km
HIGHTOWN VILLAGE SURGERY
1 ST GEORGES ROAD, HIGHTOWN, LIVERPOOL, L38 3RY
ODS code N84626
2.4 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Range High School
BCT · Formby
- 0.3 miles
Mayfield Avenue
BCT · Formby
- 0.4 miles
Jubilee Road
BCT · Formby
- 0.4 miles
Lime Tree Way
BCT · Formby
- 0.4 miles
St Lukes Church Road
BCT · Formby
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Sefton 015C, 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
10 of 10
Overall England rank
31,279 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
273 published events cover 12 months, averaging 22.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 104 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.