Schools
25 open schools are in scope, including 21 primary and 4 secondary schools. Heygarth Primary School is the nearest published school at 223 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
L62 8AW
Eastham · Wirral · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Eastham
- Local authority
- Wirral
- Constituency
- Ellesmere Port and Bromborough
- Postcode district
- L62
- Postcode sector
- L62 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- L62 8AW
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 June 1999
- Postcode area
- L
- Postcode district
- L62
- Postcode sector
- L62 8
- Latitude
- 53.314741
- Longitude
- -2.977109
- British National Grid easting
- 335,000
- British National Grid northing
- 380,200
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Wirral · E08000015
- Electoral ward
- Eastham · E05000960
- Parish or community
- E43000169
- Westminster constituency
- Ellesmere Port and Bromborough · E14001222
- Output area
- E00036333
- Lower layer super output area
- Wirral 042B · E01007166
- Middle layer super output area
- Wirral 042 · E02001508
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 L62
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 25
- Primary
- 21
- Secondary
- 4
- 223 m
Heygarth Primary School
Community school
- 407 m
South Wirral High School
Academy converter
- 747 m
Raeburn Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 755
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 336
- Public order 85
- Shoplifting 68
- Anti social behaviour 61
- Criminal damage and arson 56
GP practices
5
within 5 km straight-line
EASTHAM GROUP PRACTICE
47 BRIDLE ROAD, BROMBOROUGH, WIRRAL, CH62 6EE
ODS code N85005
910 m
ORCHARD SURGERY
VILLAGE ROAD, BROMBOROUGH, WIRRAL, CH62 7EU
ODS code N85047
1.9 km
THE WILLASTON SURGERY
NESTON ROAD, WILLASTON, NESTON, CH64 2TN
ODS code Y04664
3.3 km
SPITAL SURGERY
1 LANCELYN COURT PRECINCT, SPITAL ROAD, BEBINGTON, WIRRAL, CH63 9JP
ODS code N85617
3.4 km
CIVIC MEDICAL CENTRE
CIVIC WAY, BEBINGTON, WIRRAL, CH63 7RX
ODS code N85006
4.4 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Grampian Way
BCT · Plymyard
- 0.1 miles
Heygarth Road
BCT · Plymyard
- 0.1 miles
Sutherland Drive
BCT · Plymyard
- 0.2 miles
Langfield Grove
BCT · Plymyard
- 0.2 miles
Heygarth Road
BCT · Plymyard
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wirral 042B, 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
28,090 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 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
755 published events cover 12 months, averaging 62.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 336 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.