Schools
26 open schools are in scope, including 17 primary and 5 secondary schools. Hilbre High School is the nearest published school at 358 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
L48 6ED
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 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- L48 6ED
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 June 1999
- Postcode area
- L
- Postcode district
- L48
- Postcode sector
- L48 6
- Latitude
- 53.375067
- Longitude
- -3.166386
- British National Grid easting
- 322,500
- British National Grid northing
- 387,100
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
- E00036795
- Lower layer super output area
- Wirral 028B · E01007260
- 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
- 26
- Primary
- 17
- Secondary
- 5
- 358 m
Hilbre High School
Academy converter
- 367 m
Black Horse Hill Infant School
Community school
- 367 m
Black Horse Hill Junior School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 602
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 227
- Anti social behaviour 105
- Public order 58
- Criminal damage and arson 47
- Shoplifting 41
GP practices
6
within 5 km straight-line
MARINE LAKE MEDICAL PRACTICE
MARINE LAKE HEALTH & WELLBEING CTR, ORRYSDALE ROAD, WEST KIRBY, WIRRAL, CH48 5AA
ODS code N85002
1.1 km
HOYLAKE & MEOLS MEDICAL CTR
WARWICK HOUSE, STATION APPROACH, MEOLS, WIRRAL, CH47 8XA
ODS code N85059
2.9 km
GREASBY GROUP PRACTICE
GREASBY HEALTH CENTRE, GREASBY ROAD, GREASBY, WIRRAL, CH49 3AT
ODS code N85032
3.0 km
HOYLAKE RD MET CTR
314 HOYLAKE ROAD, MORETON, WIRRAL, CH46 6DE
ODS code N85046
4.3 km
MORETON MEDICAL CENTRE
27 UPTON ROAD, MORETON, WIRRAL, CH46 0PE
ODS code N85048
4.6 km
MORETON GROUP PRACTICE
PASTURE ROAD HEALTH CENTRE, PASTURE ROAD, WIRRAL, CH46 8SA
ODS code N85028
4.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Wirral Mount
BCT · Grange
- 0.1 miles
Black Horse Close
BCT · Newton
- 0.1 miles
Black Horse Hill
BCT · West Kirby
- 0.1 miles
Black Horse Hill
BCT · West Kirby
- 0.2 miles
Wirral Mount
BCT · Grange
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wirral 028B, 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
31,355 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 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
602 published events cover 12 months, averaging 50.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 227 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.