Schools
12 open schools are in scope, including 9 primary and 2 secondary schools. Formby High School is the nearest published school at 588 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
L37 4EF
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 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- L37 4EF
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 May 1994
- Postcode area
- L
- Postcode district
- L37
- Postcode sector
- L37 4
- Latitude
- 53.555786
- Longitude
- -3.065680
- British National Grid easting
- 329,500
- British National Grid northing
- 407,100
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
- E00035842
- Lower layer super output area
- Sefton 014B · E01007079
- 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
- 12
- Primary
- 9
- Secondary
- 2
- 588 m
Formby High School
Academy converter
- 794 m
Woodlands Primary School
Community school
- 919 m
Our Lady of Compassion Catholic Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 988
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 398
- Shoplifting 135
- Anti social behaviour 125
- Public order 83
- Criminal damage and arson 58
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- L37 4 residents
- 2,774
Age bands in L37 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 16.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 28.6%
315 residents
271 residents
385 residents
683 residents
663 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
266 m
CHAPEL LANE SURGERY
13 CHAPEL LANE, FORMBY, LIVERPOOL, L37 4DL
ODS code N84006
317 m
HIGHTOWN VILLAGE SURGERY
1 ST GEORGES ROAD, HIGHTOWN, LIVERPOOL, L38 3RY
ODS code N84626
2.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Formby Village
BCT · Formby
- 0.1 miles
Formby Station
BCT · Formby
- 0.2 miles
Formby Station
BCT · Formby
- 0.2 miles
Elbow Lane
BCT · Formby
- 0.2 miles
Elbow Lane
BCT · Formby
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Sefton 014B, 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
31,031 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
988 published events cover 12 months, averaging 82.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 398 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.