Property market
The five-year median is £227,500 from 4 recorded sales in L37 8DB. 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 8DB
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 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- L37 8DB
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- L
- Postcode district
- L37
- Postcode sector
- L37 8
- Latitude
- 53.559357
- Longitude
- -3.048046
- British National Grid easting
- 330,674
- British National Grid northing
- 407,480
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
- E00035848
- 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
14 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 2, Norris Way, Formby, Liverpool, L37 8DB | 19 March 2026 | £335,000 |
| 12, Norris Way, Formby, Liverpool, L37 8DB | 23 February 2026 | £230,000 |
| 5, Norris Way, Formby, Liverpool, L37 8DB | 17 November 2023 | £225,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 13
- Primary
- 10
- Secondary
- 2
- 384 m
Our Lady of Compassion Catholic Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 448 m
Freshfield Primary School
Community school
- 875 m
Redgate Community Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 735
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 296
- Shoplifting 119
- Anti social behaviour 80
- Public order 65
- Other theft 38
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 30
- Postcode households
- 13
- Residents per household
- 2.3
- L37 8 residents
- 1,753
15 female, 15 male
Age bands in L37 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 18.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 30.3%
308 residents
191 residents
393 residents
591 residents
645 residents
This postcode contained 1.7% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider L37 8 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
CHAPEL LANE SURGERY
13 CHAPEL LANE, FORMBY, LIVERPOOL, L37 4DL
ODS code N84006
922 m
THE VILLAGE SURGERY FORMBY
12 ELBOW LANE, FORMBY, LIVERPOOL, L37 4AW
ODS code N84018
980 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
4.7 km
AINSDALE MEDICAL CENTRE
66 STATION ROAD, AINSDALE, SOUTHPORT, PR8 3HW
ODS code N84012
4.8 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Smithy Green
BCT · Freshfield
- 0.1 miles
No. 43
BCT · Freshfield
- 0.1 miles
Watchyard Lane
BCT · Freshfield
- 0.2 miles
Smithy Green
BCT · Freshfield
- 0.2 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
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 1
- 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 384 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
735 published events cover 12 months, averaging 61.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 296 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.