Schools
38 open schools are in scope, including 26 primary and 5 secondary schools. Pensby Primary School is the nearest published school at 573 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
L61 7UQ
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 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- L61 7UQ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 June 1999
- Postcode area
- L
- Postcode district
- L61
- Postcode sector
- L61 7
- Latitude
- 53.346963
- Longitude
- -3.096518
- British National Grid easting
- 327,100
- British National Grid northing
- 383,900
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
- E00036917
- Lower layer super output area
- Wirral 033D · E01007287
- 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
- 38
- Primary
- 26
- Secondary
- 5
- 573 m
Pensby Primary School
Community school
- 618 m
Stanley School
Community special school
- 794 m
Ladymount Catholic Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 488
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 256
- Other theft 43
- Criminal damage and arson 41
- Public order 37
- Anti social behaviour 28
GP practices
11
within 5 km straight-line
WEST WIRRAL GROUP PRACTICE
THE WARRENS MEDICAL CENTRE, ARROWE PARK ROAD, WIRRAL, CH49 5PL
ODS code N85008
1.4 km
MYRTLE GROUP PRACTICE
270 TELEGRAPH ROAD, HESWALL, WIRRAL, CH60 7RN
ODS code N85007
1.9 km
THE VILLA MEDICAL CENTRE
1-2 ROMAN ROAD, PRENTON, CH43 3DB
ODS code N85018
3.5 km
PRENTON & WOODCHURCH MEDICAL CENTRE
516-518 WOODCHURCH ROAD, PRENTON, BIRKENHEAD, WIRRAL, CH43 0TS
ODS code N85643
3.6 km
HOLMLANDS MED CTR
16-20 HOLMLANDS DR, OXTON, BIRKENHEAD, WIRRAL, PRENTON, CH43 0TX
ODS code N85022
3.7 km
GREASBY GROUP PRACTICE
GREASBY HEALTH CENTRE, GREASBY ROAD, GREASBY, WIRRAL, CH49 3AT
ODS code N85032
3.8 km
HEATHERLANDS MED CTR
396 NEW HEY ROAD, WIRRAL, CH49 9DA
ODS code N85037
3.9 km
UPTON GROUP PRACTICE
32 FORD ROAD, WIRRAL, CH49 0TF
ODS code N85013
4.3 km
CHURCH ROAD MEDICAL PRACTICE
25 BRACKENWOOD ROAD, HIGHER BEBINGTON, WIRRAL, CH63 2LR
ODS code N85633
4.9 km
KINGS LANE MEDICAL PRACTICE
25 BRACKENWOOD ROAD, WIRRAL, CH63 2LR
ODS code N85054
4.9 km
TEEHEY LANE SURGERY
66 TEEHEY LANE, BEBINGTON, WIRRAL, CH63 2JN
ODS code N85057
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Beech Avenue
BCT · Pensby
- 0.0 miles
Beech Avenue
BCT · Pensby
- 0.1 miles
Gills Lane
BCT · Pensby
- 0.1 miles
Shearman Road
BCT · Pensby
- 0.1 miles
Fishers Lane
BCT · Pensby
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wirral 033D, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
20,952 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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
488 published events cover 12 months, averaging 40.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 256 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.