Schools
52 open schools are in scope, including 36 primary and 9 secondary schools. Stanley School is the nearest published school at 0.8 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
L61 1DA
Pensby and Thingwall · Wirral · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Pensby and Thingwall
- Local authority
- Wirral
- Constituency
- Wirral West
- Postcode district
- L61
- Postcode sector
- L61 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- L61 1DA
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 June 1999
- Postcode area
- L
- Postcode district
- L61
- Postcode sector
- L61 1
- Latitude
- 53.345343
- Longitude
- -3.076949
- British National Grid easting
- 328,400
- British National Grid northing
- 383,700
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Wirral · E08000015
- Electoral ward
- Pensby and Thingwall · E05000969
- Parish or community
- E43000169
- Westminster constituency
- Wirral West · E14001589
- Output area
- E00036406
- Lower layer super output area
- Wirral 034A · E01007183
- Middle layer super output area
- Wirral 034 · E02001500
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 L61
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 52
- Primary
- 36
- Secondary
- 9
- 1.4 km
Stanley School
Community special school
- 1.5 km
Pensby Primary School
Community school
- 1.6 km
Thingwall Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 193
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 105
- Other theft 24
- Public order 16
- Anti social behaviour 13
- Burglary 10
GP practices
13
within 5 km straight-line
WEST WIRRAL GROUP PRACTICE
THE WARRENS MEDICAL CENTRE, ARROWE PARK ROAD, WIRRAL, CH49 5PL
ODS code N85008
1.8 km
MYRTLE GROUP PRACTICE
270 TELEGRAPH ROAD, HESWALL, WIRRAL, CH60 7RN
ODS code N85007
2.4 km
THE VILLA MEDICAL CENTRE
1-2 ROMAN ROAD, PRENTON, CH43 3DB
ODS code N85018
2.7 km
PRENTON & WOODCHURCH MEDICAL CENTRE
516-518 WOODCHURCH ROAD, PRENTON, BIRKENHEAD, WIRRAL, CH43 0TS
ODS code N85643
3.1 km
HOLMLANDS MED CTR
16-20 HOLMLANDS DR, OXTON, BIRKENHEAD, WIRRAL, PRENTON, CH43 0TX
ODS code N85022
3.2 km
CHURCH ROAD MEDICAL PRACTICE
25 BRACKENWOOD ROAD, HIGHER BEBINGTON, WIRRAL, CH63 2LR
ODS code N85633
3.6 km
KINGS LANE MEDICAL PRACTICE
25 BRACKENWOOD ROAD, WIRRAL, CH63 2LR
ODS code N85054
3.6 km
TEEHEY LANE SURGERY
66 TEEHEY LANE, BEBINGTON, WIRRAL, CH63 2JN
ODS code N85057
3.7 km
HEATHERLANDS MED CTR
396 NEW HEY ROAD, WIRRAL, CH49 9DA
ODS code N85037
4.1 km
UPTON GROUP PRACTICE
32 FORD ROAD, WIRRAL, CH49 0TF
ODS code N85013
4.5 km
GREASBY GROUP PRACTICE
GREASBY HEALTH CENTRE, GREASBY ROAD, GREASBY, WIRRAL, CH49 3AT
ODS code N85032
4.7 km
CIVIC MEDICAL CENTRE
CIVIC WAY, BEBINGTON, WIRRAL, CH63 7RX
ODS code N85006
4.8 km
SPITAL SURGERY
1 LANCELYN COURT PRECINCT, SPITAL ROAD, BEBINGTON, WIRRAL, CH63 9JP
ODS code N85617
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Barnston Road
BCT · Barnston
- 0.1 miles
Youth Centre
BCT · Barnston
- 0.1 miles
Youth Centre
BCT · Barnston
- 0.3 miles
Gills Lane
BCT · Barnston
- 0.3 miles
Private Drive
BCT · Barnston
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wirral 034A, 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
28,319 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
193 published events cover 12 months, averaging 16.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 105 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.