Schools
21 open schools are in scope, including 19 primary and 2 secondary schools. Heygarth Primary School is the nearest published school at 509 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
L62 8BT
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 8BT
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 June 1999
- Postcode area
- L
- Postcode district
- L62
- Postcode sector
- L62 8
- Latitude
- 53.312118
- Longitude
- -2.968044
- British National Grid easting
- 335,600
- British National Grid northing
- 379,900
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
- E00036297
- Lower layer super output area
- Wirral 042A · E01007164
- 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
- 21
- Primary
- 19
- Secondary
- 2
- 509 m
Heygarth Primary School
Community school
- 536 m
Millfields Church of England (Controlled) Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
- 721 m
South Wirral High School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 631
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 272
- Public order 70
- Shoplifting 67
- Anti social behaviour 51
- Criminal damage and arson 50
GP practices
6
within 5 km straight-line
EASTHAM GROUP PRACTICE
47 BRIDLE ROAD, BROMBOROUGH, WIRRAL, CH62 6EE
ODS code N85005
1.2 km
ORCHARD SURGERY
VILLAGE ROAD, BROMBOROUGH, WIRRAL, CH62 7EU
ODS code N85047
2.3 km
THE WILLASTON SURGERY
NESTON ROAD, WILLASTON, NESTON, CH64 2TN
ODS code Y04664
3.6 km
SPITAL SURGERY
1 LANCELYN COURT PRECINCT, SPITAL ROAD, BEBINGTON, WIRRAL, CH63 9JP
ODS code N85617
4.0 km
GREAT SUTTON MEDICAL CENTRE
OLD CHESTER ROAD, GREAT SUTTON, ELLESMERE PORT, CH66 3NZ
ODS code N81050
4.4 km
CIVIC MEDICAL CENTRE
CIVIC WAY, BEBINGTON, WIRRAL, CH63 7RX
ODS code N85006
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Mill Park Drive
BCT · Eastham Rake
- 0.1 miles
Mill Park Drive
BCT · Eastham Rake
- 0.1 miles
Glenburn Avenue
BCT · Eastham Rake
- 0.1 miles
Eastham Rake
BCT · Eastham Rake
- 0.1 miles
Eastham Rake
BCT · Eastham Rake
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wirral 042A, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
24,347 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
631 published events cover 12 months, averaging 52.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 272 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.