Schools
18 open schools are in scope, including 12 primary and 4 secondary schools. Avalon School is the nearest published school at 745 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
L48 2JL
West Kirby and Thurstaston · Wirral · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Wirral
- Constituency
- Wirral West
- Postcode district
- L48
- Postcode sector
- L48 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- L48 2JL
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 June 1999
- Postcode area
- L
- Postcode district
- L48
- Postcode sector
- L48 2
- Latitude
- 53.357947
- Longitude
- -3.170426
- British National Grid easting
- 322,200
- British National Grid northing
- 385,200
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Wirral · E08000015
- Electoral ward
- West Kirby and Thurstaston · E05000975
- Parish or community
- E43000169
- Westminster constituency
- Wirral West · E14001589
- Output area
- E00036938
- Lower layer super output area
- Wirral 028E · E01007283
- Middle layer super output area
- Wirral 028 · E02001494
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 L48
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 18
- Primary
- 12
- Secondary
- 4
- 745 m
Avalon School
Other independent school
- 1.2 km
Calday Grange Grammar School
Academy converter
- 1.2 km
West Kirby St Bridget's CofE Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 175
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 50
- Anti social behaviour 35
- Public order 18
- Criminal damage and arson 18
- Shoplifting 13
GP practices
3
within 5 km straight-line
MARINE LAKE MEDICAL PRACTICE
MARINE LAKE HEALTH & WELLBEING CTR, ORRYSDALE ROAD, WEST KIRBY, WIRRAL, CH48 5AA
ODS code N85002
2.0 km
GREASBY GROUP PRACTICE
GREASBY HEALTH CENTRE, GREASBY ROAD, GREASBY, WIRRAL, CH49 3AT
ODS code N85032
3.9 km
HOYLAKE & MEOLS MEDICAL CTR
WARWICK HOUSE, STATION APPROACH, MEOLS, WIRRAL, CH47 8XA
ODS code N85059
4.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Croft Drive West
BCT · Kirby Park
- 0.2 miles
Kings Drive
BCT · Caldy
- 0.3 miles
Melloncroft Drive
BCT · Kirby Park
- 0.3 miles
Melloncroft Drive
BCT · West Kirby
- 0.4 miles
Caldy Wood
BCT · Caldy
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wirral 028E, 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
30,630 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 9 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
175 published events cover 12 months, averaging 14.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 50 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.