Schools
13 open schools are in scope, including 10 primary and 2 secondary schools. Formby High School is the nearest published school at 456 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
L37 3RA
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 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- L37 3RA
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1995
- Terminated
- 1 December 1996
- Postcode area
- L
- Postcode district
- L37
- Postcode sector
- L37 3
- Latitude
- 53.560050
- Longitude
- -3.061258
- British National Grid easting
- 329,800
- British National Grid northing
- 407,570
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
- E00035868
- Lower layer super output area
- Sefton 014D · E01007081
- 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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 13
- Primary
- 10
- Secondary
- 2
- 456 m
Formby High School
Academy converter
- 719 m
Our Lady of Compassion Catholic Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 752 m
Freshfield Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 915
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 357
- Shoplifting 138
- Anti social behaviour 113
- Public order 77
- Criminal damage and arson 50
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- L37 3 residents
- 4,530
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
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
5
within 5 km straight-line
CHAPEL LANE SURGERY
13 CHAPEL LANE, FORMBY, LIVERPOOL, L37 4DL
ODS code N84006
330 m
THE VILLAGE SURGERY FORMBY
12 ELBOW LANE, FORMBY, LIVERPOOL, L37 4AW
ODS code N84018
460 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
4.9 km
AINSDALE MEDICAL CENTRE
66 STATION ROAD, AINSDALE, SOUTHPORT, PR8 3HW
ODS code N84012
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Page Court
BCT · Formby
- 0.1 miles
Old Mill Lane
BCT · Freshfield
- 0.1 miles
Old Mill Lane
BCT · Freshfield
- 0.1 miles
Furness Avenue
BCT · Formby
- 0.2 miles
Alderson Crescent
BCT · Freshfield
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Sefton 014D, 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
29,007 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 5 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
915 published events cover 12 months, averaging 76.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 357 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.