Schools
12 open schools are in scope, including 9 primary and 2 secondary schools. Formby High School is the nearest published school at 573 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
L38 9XB
Formby West · Sefton · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Formby West
- Local authority
- Sefton
- Constituency
- Sefton Central
- Postcode district
- L38
- Postcode sector
- L38 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- L38 9XB
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 May 2020
- Terminated
- 1 March 2022
- Postcode area
- L
- Postcode district
- L38
- Postcode sector
- L38 9
- Latitude
- 53.556497
- Longitude
- -3.063494
- British National Grid easting
- 329,646
- British National Grid northing
- 407,177
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Sefton · E08000014
- Electoral ward
- Formby West · E05016335
- Parish or community
- E04000038
- Westminster constituency
- Sefton Central · E14001463
- Output area
- E00035842
- Lower layer super output area
- Sefton 014B · E01007079
- 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 L38
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 12
- Primary
- 9
- Secondary
- 2
- 573 m
Formby High School
Academy converter
- 769 m
Our Lady of Compassion Catholic Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 899 m
Redgate Community Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,013
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 406
- Shoplifting 137
- Anti social behaviour 130
- Public order 88
- Criminal damage and arson 60
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- L38 9 residents
- 1,183
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
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
THE VILLAGE SURGERY FORMBY
12 ELBOW LANE, FORMBY, LIVERPOOL, L37 4AW
ODS code N84018
137 m
CHAPEL LANE SURGERY
13 CHAPEL LANE, FORMBY, LIVERPOOL, L37 4DL
ODS code N84006
152 m
HIGHTOWN VILLAGE SURGERY
1 ST GEORGES ROAD, HIGHTOWN, LIVERPOOL, L38 3RY
ODS code N84626
3.0 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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Formby Village
BCT · Formby
- 0.1 miles
Formby Village
BCT · Formby
- 0.1 miles
Cropton Road
BCT · Formby
- 0.2 miles
Elbow Lane
BCT · Formby
- 0.2 miles
Elbow Lane
BCT · Formby
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Sefton 014B, 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
10 of 10
Overall England rank
31,031 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
1,013 published events cover 12 months, averaging 84.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 406 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.