Schools
39 open schools are in scope, including 26 primary and 6 secondary schools. Pensby High School is the nearest published school at 607 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
L61 2XA
Greasby, Frankby and Irby · Wirral · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Wirral
- Constituency
- Wirral West
- Postcode district
- L61
- Postcode sector
- L61 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- L61 2XA
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 June 1999
- Postcode area
- L
- Postcode district
- L61
- Postcode sector
- L61 2
- Latitude
- 53.348579
- Longitude
- -3.116089
- British National Grid easting
- 325,800
- British National Grid northing
- 384,100
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Wirral · E08000015
- Electoral ward
- Greasby, Frankby and Irby · E05000961
- Parish or community
- E43000169
- Westminster constituency
- Wirral West · E14001589
- Output area
- E00036915
- Lower layer super output area
- Wirral 033C · E01007285
- Middle layer super output area
- Wirral 033 · E02001499
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
- 39
- Primary
- 26
- Secondary
- 6
- 607 m
Pensby High School
Foundation school
- 996 m
Irby Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.1 km
Ladymount Catholic Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 471
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 235
- Criminal damage and arson 51
- Other theft 40
- Anti social behaviour 33
- Public order 32
GP practices
8
within 5 km straight-line
WEST WIRRAL GROUP PRACTICE
THE WARRENS MEDICAL CENTRE, ARROWE PARK ROAD, WIRRAL, CH49 5PL
ODS code N85008
2.0 km
MYRTLE GROUP PRACTICE
270 TELEGRAPH ROAD, HESWALL, WIRRAL, CH60 7RN
ODS code N85007
2.2 km
GREASBY GROUP PRACTICE
GREASBY HEALTH CENTRE, GREASBY ROAD, GREASBY, WIRRAL, CH49 3AT
ODS code N85032
3.3 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
4.4 km
PRENTON & WOODCHURCH MEDICAL CENTRE
516-518 WOODCHURCH ROAD, PRENTON, BIRKENHEAD, WIRRAL, CH43 0TS
ODS code N85643
4.4 km
HOLMLANDS MED CTR
16-20 HOLMLANDS DR, OXTON, BIRKENHEAD, WIRRAL, PRENTON, CH43 0TX
ODS code N85022
4.6 km
THE VILLA MEDICAL CENTRE
1-2 ROMAN ROAD, PRENTON, CH43 3DB
ODS code N85018
4.6 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Woodlands Road
BCT · Irby Heath
- 0.1 miles
Backford Road
BCT · Irby Heath
- 0.2 miles
Thingwall Road
BCT · Irby Heath
- 0.2 miles
Thingwall Road
BCT · Irby Heath
- 0.3 miles
Thurstaston Road
BCT · Irby Heath
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wirral 033C, 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
27,672 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 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
471 published events cover 12 months, averaging 39.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 235 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.