Schools
28 open schools are in scope, including 16 primary and 6 secondary schools. Range High School is the nearest published school at 1.8 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
L38 3SB
Thornton & Hightown · Sefton · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Thornton & Hightown
- Local authority
- Sefton
- Constituency
- Sefton Central
- Postcode district
- L38
- Postcode sector
- L38 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- L38 3SB
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1993
- Terminated
- 1 December 1999
- Postcode area
- L
- Postcode district
- L38
- Postcode sector
- L38 3
- Latitude
- 53.524495
- Longitude
- -3.054682
- British National Grid easting
- 330,177
- British National Grid northing
- 403,608
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
- E00035620
- 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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 28
- Primary
- 16
- Secondary
- 6
- 2.8 km
Range High School
Academy converter
- 2.9 km
St Mary's Catholic Primary School
Academy converter
- 3.1 km
Redgate Community Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 133
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Anti social behaviour 35
- Violence and sexual offences 33
- Criminal damage and arson 24
- Public order 13
- Burglary 5
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- L38 3 residents
- 326
Age bands in L38 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 15.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 32.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 26.7%
53 residents
33 residents
54 residents
113 residents
92 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
6
within 5 km
HIGHTOWN VILLAGE SURGERY
1 ST GEORGES ROAD, HIGHTOWN, LIVERPOOL, L38 3RY
ODS code N84626
670 m
THE VILLAGE SURGERY FORMBY
12 ELBOW LANE, FORMBY, LIVERPOOL, L37 4AW
ODS code N84018
3.5 km
CHAPEL LANE SURGERY
13 CHAPEL LANE, FORMBY, LIVERPOOL, L37 4DL
ODS code N84006
3.7 km
BLUNDELLSANDS SURGERY
1 WARREN ROAD, BLUNDELLSANDS, LIVERPOOL, L23 6TZ
ODS code N84020
4.5 km
LIVERPOOL RD MEDICAL PRACTICE
133 LIVERPOOL ROAD, CROSBY, LIVERPOOL, L23 5TE
ODS code N84007
4.7 km
GREAT CROSBY AND THORNTON
THORNTON FAMILY HC, BRETLANDS ROAD, THORNTON, LIVERPOOL, L23 1TQ
ODS code N84621
4.9 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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Hightown Rail Station
RSE · Hightown
- 0.1 miles
Hightown Rail Station
RLY · Hightown
- 0.1 miles
Hightown Rail Station
RSE · Hightown
- 0.1 miles
Hightown Interchange
BCT · Hightown
- 0.1 miles
School Road
BCT · 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
133 published events cover 12 months, averaging 11.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Anti social behaviour with 35 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.