Property market
The five-year median is £222,500 from 14 recorded sales in L37 3JU. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Sefton is £225,433 in June 2026, up 5.2% year on year.
L37 3JU
Formby East · Sefton · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Liverpool
- Ward
- Formby East
- Local authority
- Sefton
- Constituency
- Sefton Central
- Postcode district
- L37
- Postcode sector
- L37 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- L37 3JU
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- L
- Postcode district
- L37
- Postcode sector
- L37 3
- Latitude
- 53.559253
- Longitude
- -3.052708
- British National Grid easting
- 330,365
- British National Grid northing
- 407,473
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Sefton · E08000014
- Electoral ward
- Formby East · E05016334
- Parish or community
- E04000038
- Westminster constituency
- Sefton Central · E14001463
- Output area
- E00035871
- Lower layer super output area
- Sefton 014C · E01007080
- Middle layer super output area
- Sefton 014 · E02001442
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
Property
54 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 30, Watchyard Lane, Formby, Liverpool, L37 3JU | 3 July 2026 | £298,000 |
| 24, Watchyard Lane, Formby, Liverpool, L37 3JU | 31 March 2025 | £218,000 |
| 14, Watchyard Lane, Formby, Liverpool, L37 3JU | 26 November 2024 | £270,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 13
- Primary
- 10
- Secondary
- 2
- 280 m
Our Lady of Compassion Catholic Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 429 m
Freshfield Primary School
Community school
- 816 m
Redgate Community Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 825
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 336
- Shoplifting 119
- Anti social behaviour 99
- Public order 73
- Other theft 44
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 87
- Postcode households
- 45
- Residents per household
- 1.9
- L37 3 residents
- 4,530
48 female, 39 male
Age bands in L37 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 16.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 33.9%
707 residents
392 residents
800 residents
1,358 residents
1,669 residents
This postcode contained 1.9% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider L37 3 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
5
within 5 km straight-line
CHAPEL LANE SURGERY
13 CHAPEL LANE, FORMBY, LIVERPOOL, L37 4DL
ODS code N84006
626 m
THE VILLAGE SURGERY FORMBY
12 ELBOW LANE, FORMBY, LIVERPOOL, L37 4AW
ODS code N84018
700 m
HIGHTOWN VILLAGE SURGERY
1 ST GEORGES ROAD, HIGHTOWN, LIVERPOOL, L38 3RY
ODS code N84626
3.3 km
AINSDALE VILLAGE SURGERY
THE SURGERY, 2 LEAMINGTON RD, AINSDALE, SOUTHPORT, PR8 3LB
ODS code N84014
4.8 km
AINSDALE MEDICAL CENTRE
66 STATION ROAD, AINSDALE, SOUTHPORT, PR8 3HW
ODS code N84012
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Whitehouse Lane
BCT · Formby
- 0.1 miles
Mittens Lane
BCT · Formby
- 0.1 miles
Kenyons Lane
BCT · Formby
- 0.1 miles
Mittens Lane
BCT · Formby
- 0.1 miles
Smithy Green
BCT · Freshfield
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Sefton 014C, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
21,188 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 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
- 2
- Medium risk addresses
- 4
- Low risk addresses
- 27
- 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
Schools
13 open schools are in scope, including 10 primary and 2 secondary schools. Our Lady of Compassion Catholic Primary School is the nearest published school at 280 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
825 published events cover 12 months, averaging 68.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 336 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.