Property market
The five-year median is £330,000 from 1 recorded sale in L38 9EU. 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 9EU
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 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- L38 9EU
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- L
- Postcode district
- L38
- Postcode sector
- L38 9
- Latitude
- 53.520028
- Longitude
- -3.058643
- British National Grid easting
- 329,907
- British National Grid northing
- 403,115
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
- E00035615
- 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
5 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 5, Withins Field, Hightown, Liverpool, L38 9EU | 14 July 2025 | £330,000 |
| 1, Withins Field, Hightown, Liverpool, L38 9EU | 28 April 2017 | £312,500 |
| 5, Withins Field, Hightown, Liverpool, L38 9EU | 26 November 2015 | £180,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 27
- Primary
- 15
- Secondary
- 6
- 2.8 km
St Mary's Catholic Primary School
Academy converter
- 2.9 km
St Michaels Church of England Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 3.1 km
Range High School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 115
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Anti social behaviour 29
- Violence and sexual offences 25
- Criminal damage and arson 24
- Public order 12
- Burglary 5
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 7
- Postcode households
- 6
- Residents per household
- 1.2
- L38 9 residents
- 1,183
3 female, 4 male
Age bands in L38 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 11.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 6.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 18.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 33.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 29.8%
135 residents
74 residents
219 residents
383 residents
345 residents
This postcode contained 0.6% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider L38 9 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
7
within 5 km
HIGHTOWN VILLAGE SURGERY
1 ST GEORGES ROAD, HIGHTOWN, LIVERPOOL, L38 3RY
ODS code N84626
1.1 km
THE VILLAGE SURGERY FORMBY
12 ELBOW LANE, FORMBY, LIVERPOOL, L37 4AW
ODS code N84018
4.0 km
BLUNDELLSANDS SURGERY
1 WARREN ROAD, BLUNDELLSANDS, LIVERPOOL, L23 6TZ
ODS code N84020
4.1 km
CHAPEL LANE SURGERY
13 CHAPEL LANE, FORMBY, LIVERPOOL, L37 4DL
ODS code N84006
4.1 km
LIVERPOOL RD MEDICAL PRACTICE
133 LIVERPOOL ROAD, CROSBY, LIVERPOOL, L23 5TE
ODS code N84007
4.4 km
GREAT CROSBY AND THORNTON
THORNTON FAMILY HC, BRETLANDS ROAD, THORNTON, LIVERPOOL, L23 1TQ
ODS code N84621
4.8 km
EASTVIEW SURGERY
81-83 CROSBY ROAD NORTH, WATERLOO, LIVERPOOL, L22 4QD
ODS code N84011
5.0 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
Thornbeck Avenue
BCT · Hightown
- 0.1 miles
Blundell Road
BCT · Hightown
- 0.1 miles
Thornbeck Avenue
BCT · Hightown
- 0.1 miles
Thornbeck Avenue
BCT · Hightown
- 0.1 miles
Blundell 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.
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
- 0
- 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
27 open schools are in scope, including 15 primary and 6 secondary schools. St Mary's Catholic Primary School is the nearest published school at 1.7 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
115 published events cover 12 months, averaging 9.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Anti social behaviour with 29 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.