Schools
27 open schools are in scope, including 20 primary and 2 secondary schools. Heswall Primary School is the nearest published school at 403 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
L61 6UW
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 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- L61 6UW
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 June 1999
- Postcode area
- L
- Postcode district
- L61
- Postcode sector
- L61 6
- Latitude
- 53.336192
- Longitude
- -3.094740
- British National Grid easting
- 327,200
- British National Grid northing
- 382,700
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
- E00036416
- Lower layer super output area
- Wirral 040C · E01007188
- Middle layer super output area
- Wirral 040 · E02001506
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
- 27
- Primary
- 20
- Secondary
- 2
- 403 m
Heswall Primary School
Academy converter
- 590 m
Stanley School
Community special school
- 711 m
Pensby Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 640
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 328
- Anti social behaviour 59
- Criminal damage and arson 50
- Public order 47
- Other theft 43
GP practices
8
within 5 km straight-line
MYRTLE GROUP PRACTICE
270 TELEGRAPH ROAD, HESWALL, WIRRAL, CH60 7RN
ODS code N85007
827 m
WEST WIRRAL GROUP PRACTICE
THE WARRENS MEDICAL CENTRE, ARROWE PARK ROAD, WIRRAL, CH49 5PL
ODS code N85008
2.6 km
THE VILLA MEDICAL CENTRE
1-2 ROMAN ROAD, PRENTON, CH43 3DB
ODS code N85018
4.2 km
PRENTON & WOODCHURCH MEDICAL CENTRE
516-518 WOODCHURCH ROAD, PRENTON, BIRKENHEAD, WIRRAL, CH43 0TS
ODS code N85643
4.5 km
HOLMLANDS MED CTR
16-20 HOLMLANDS DR, OXTON, BIRKENHEAD, WIRRAL, PRENTON, CH43 0TX
ODS code N85022
4.7 km
GREASBY GROUP PRACTICE
GREASBY HEALTH CENTRE, GREASBY ROAD, GREASBY, WIRRAL, CH49 3AT
ODS code N85032
4.9 km
CHURCH ROAD MEDICAL PRACTICE
25 BRACKENWOOD ROAD, HIGHER BEBINGTON, WIRRAL, CH63 2LR
ODS code N85633
5.0 km
KINGS LANE MEDICAL PRACTICE
25 BRACKENWOOD ROAD, WIRRAL, CH63 2LR
ODS code N85054
5.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Whitfield Lane
BCT · Heswall
- 0.1 miles
Pensby Road
BCT · Heswall
- 0.1 miles
Whitfield Lane
BCT · Heswall
- 0.1 miles
Downham Road North
BCT · Heswall
- 0.1 miles
Downham Road North
BCT · Heswall
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wirral 040C, 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
33,244 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
640 published events cover 12 months, averaging 53.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 328 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.