Schools
10 open schools are in scope, including 8 primary and 2 secondary schools. Range High School is the nearest published school at 0.7 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
L37 6AJ
Formby East · Sefton · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Formby East
- Local authority
- Sefton
- Constituency
- Sefton Central
- Postcode district
- L37
- Postcode sector
- L37 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- L37 6AJ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 July 2006
- Postcode area
- L
- Postcode district
- L37
- Postcode sector
- L37 6
- Latitude
- 53.542862
- Longitude
- -3.065385
- British National Grid easting
- 329,498
- British National Grid northing
- 405,662
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Sefton · E08000014
- Electoral ward
- Formby East · E05016334
- Parish or community
- E04000031
- Westminster constituency
- Sefton Central · E14001463
- Output area
- E00035879
- Lower layer super output area
- Sefton 016B · E01007076
- Middle layer super output area
- Sefton 016 · E02001444
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
- 10
- Primary
- 8
- Secondary
- 2
- 1.1 km
Range High School
Academy converter
- 1.1 km
St Luke's Church of England Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
- 1.3 km
Redgate Community Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 586
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 231
- Anti social behaviour 80
- Shoplifting 78
- Public order 49
- Criminal damage and arson 35
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- L37 6 residents
- 3,144
Age bands in L37 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 24.5%
513 residents
297 residents
684 residents
823 residents
751 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
1.5 km
HIGHTOWN VILLAGE SURGERY
1 ST GEORGES ROAD, HIGHTOWN, LIVERPOOL, L38 3RY
ODS code N84626
1.5 km
CHAPEL LANE SURGERY
13 CHAPEL LANE, FORMBY, LIVERPOOL, L37 4DL
ODS code N84006
1.6 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Park Close
BCT · Formby
- 0.4 miles
Park Road
BCT · Formby
- 0.4 miles
Windsor Road
BCT · Formby
- 0.4 miles
Balmoral Drive
BCT · Formby
- 0.5 miles
Raven Meols Lane
BCT · Formby
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Sefton 016B, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
18,771 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
586 published events cover 12 months, averaging 48.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 231 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.