Schools
28 open schools are in scope, including 21 primary and 2 secondary schools. Stanley School is the nearest published school at 482 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
L61 9PJ
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 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- L61 9PJ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1991
- Postcode area
- L
- Postcode district
- L61
- Postcode sector
- L61 9
- Latitude
- 53.337077
- Longitude
- -3.096264
- British National Grid easting
- 327,100
- British National Grid northing
- 382,800
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
- 28
- Primary
- 21
- Secondary
- 2
- 482 m
Stanley School
Community special school
- 543 m
Heswall Primary School
Academy converter
- 582 m
Pensby Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 625
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 315
- Anti social behaviour 59
- Criminal damage and arson 51
- Public order 46
- Other theft 44
GP practices
7
within 5 km straight-line
MYRTLE GROUP PRACTICE
270 TELEGRAPH ROAD, HESWALL, WIRRAL, CH60 7RN
ODS code N85007
849 m
WEST WIRRAL GROUP PRACTICE
THE WARRENS MEDICAL CENTRE, ARROWE PARK ROAD, WIRRAL, CH49 5PL
ODS code N85008
2.5 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
4.6 km
GREASBY GROUP PRACTICE
GREASBY HEALTH CENTRE, GREASBY ROAD, GREASBY, WIRRAL, CH49 3AT
ODS code N85032
4.8 km
HEATHERLANDS MED CTR
396 NEW HEY ROAD, WIRRAL, CH49 9DA
ODS code N85037
5.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Downham Road North
BCT · Heswall
- 0.1 miles
Downham Road North
BCT · Heswall
- 0.1 miles
Whitfield Lane
BCT · Heswall
- 0.1 miles
Pensby Road
BCT · Heswall
- 0.1 miles
Whitfield Lane
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
625 published events cover 12 months, averaging 52.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 315 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.