Property market
The five-year median is £408,000 from 3 recorded sales in L38 0BL. 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.
L38 0BL
Thornton & Hightown · Sefton · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Liverpool
- Ward
- Thornton & Hightown
- Local authority
- Sefton
- Constituency
- Sefton Central
- Postcode district
- L38
- Postcode sector
- L38 0
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- L38 0BL
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- L
- Postcode district
- L38
- Postcode sector
- L38 0
- Latitude
- 53.526163
- Longitude
- -3.060139
- British National Grid easting
- 329,818
- British National Grid northing
- 403,799
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Sefton · E08000014
- Electoral ward
- Thornton & Hightown · E05016345
- Parish or community
- E04000037
- Westminster constituency
- Sefton Central · E14001463
- Output area
- E00035621
- Lower layer super output area
- Sefton 021D · E01007027
- Middle layer super output area
- Sefton 021 · E02001449
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 L38
Property
17 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 3, St Stephens Road, Hightown, Liverpool, L38 0BL | 3 June 2026 | £342,500 |
| 11, St Stephens Road, Hightown, Liverpool, L38 0BL | 26 July 2024 | £440,000 |
| 15, St Stephens Road, Hightown, Liverpool, L38 0BL | 15 September 2022 | £408,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 20
- Primary
- 13
- Secondary
- 4
- 2.5 km
Range High School
Academy converter
- 2.9 km
St Luke's Church of England Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
- 2.9 km
Redgate Community Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 125
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Anti social behaviour 33
- Violence and sexual offences 31
- Criminal damage and arson 24
- Public order 12
- Burglary 5
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 44
- Postcode households
- 14
- Residents per household
- 3.1
- L38 0 residents
- 517
20 female, 24 male
Age bands in L38 0
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 8.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 13.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 42.1%
43 residents
31 residents
71 residents
154 residents
217 residents
This postcode contained 8.5% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider L38 0 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+
- 81.3%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 81.3%
- Gigabit-capable
- 81.3%
- 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
4
within 5 km
HIGHTOWN VILLAGE SURGERY
1 ST GEORGES ROAD, HIGHTOWN, LIVERPOOL, L38 3RY
ODS code N84626
453 m
THE VILLAGE SURGERY FORMBY
12 ELBOW LANE, FORMBY, LIVERPOOL, L37 4AW
ODS code N84018
3.3 km
CHAPEL LANE SURGERY
13 CHAPEL LANE, FORMBY, LIVERPOOL, L37 4DL
ODS code N84006
3.4 km
BLUNDELLSANDS SURGERY
1 WARREN ROAD, BLUNDELLSANDS, LIVERPOOL, L23 6TZ
ODS code N84020
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
Hightown Interchange
BCT · Hightown
- 0.1 miles
School Road
BCT · Hightown
- 0.1 miles
School Road
BCT · Hightown
- 0.1 miles
Hightown Rail Station
RLY · Hightown
- 0.1 miles
Hightown Rail Station
RSE · Hightown
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Sefton 021D, 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
28,863 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 10 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
- 1
- Medium risk addresses
- 1
- Low risk addresses
- 4
- 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
20 open schools are in scope, including 13 primary and 4 secondary schools. Range High School is the nearest published school at 1.5 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
125 published events cover 12 months, averaging 10.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Anti social behaviour with 33 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.