Schools
136 open schools are in scope, including 79 primary and 20 secondary schools. Princes School is the nearest published school at 232 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
L8 7SA
Canning · Liverpool · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Canning
- Local authority
- Liverpool
- Constituency
- Liverpool Riverside
- Postcode district
- L8
- Postcode sector
- L8 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- L8 7SA
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 August 2002
- Postcode area
- L
- Postcode district
- L8
- Postcode sector
- L8 7
- Latitude
- 53.398873
- Longitude
- -2.957860
- British National Grid easting
- 336,408
- British National Grid northing
- 389,542
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Liverpool · E08000012
- Electoral ward
- Canning · E05015285
- Parish or community
- E43000166
- Westminster constituency
- Liverpool Riverside · E14001338
- Output area
- E00176644
- Lower layer super output area
- Liverpool 031A · E01006512
- Middle layer super output area
- Liverpool 031 · E02001377
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 L8
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 136
- Primary
- 79
- Secondary
- 20
- 232 m
Princes School
Community special school
- 420 m
Abercromby Nursery School
Local authority nursery school
- 452 m
Smithdown Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 11,215
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 4,201
- Drugs 1,672
- Public order 1,011
- Other theft 834
- Anti social behaviour 664
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- L8 7 residents
- 3,669
Age bands in L8 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 6.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 32.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 34.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 18.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 7.8%
258 residents
1,325 residents
1,394 residents
747 residents
316 residents
Small counts are adjusted for privacy, so totals can differ slightly between Census tables.
Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.
GP practices
58
within 5 km straight-line
ABERCROMBY FAMILY PRACTICE
GROVE STREET, EDGE HILL, LIVERPOOL, L7 7HG
ODS code N82054
259 m
BROWNLOW HEALTH @ PRINCES PARK
PRINCES PARK HEALTH CENTRE, BENTLEY ROAD, TOXTETH, LIVERPOOL, L8 0SY
ODS code N82076
904 m
DUNSTAN VILLAGE GROUP PRACTICE
EARLE ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE, 131 EARLE ROAD, LIVERPOOL, L7 6HD
ODS code N82662
987 m
EARLE ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
131 EARLE ROAD, LIVERPOOL, L7 6HD
ODS code N82065
987 m
PICTON GREEN
137 EARLE ROAD, LIVERPOOL, L7 6HD
ODS code N82089
987 m
BROWNLOW HEALTH AT KENSINGTON
KENSINGTON N'HOOD HC, 157 EDGE LANE, LIVERPOOL, L7 2PF
ODS code N82645
1.1 km
BEACON HEALTH KENSINGTON
157 EDGE LANE, EDGE HILL, LIVERPOOL, L7 2AB
ODS code N82022
1.2 km
BROWNLOW GROUP PRACTICE
PRIMARY CARE RESOURCE CENTRE, 70 PEMBROKE PLACE, LIVERPOOL, L69 3GF
ODS code N82117
1.2 km
ST. JAMES' HEALTH CENTRE
29 GREAT GEORGE SQUARE, LIVERPOOL, L1 5DZ
ODS code N82082
1.4 km
SEFTON PARK MEDICAL CENTRE
SMITHDOWN ROAD, LIVERPOOL, L15 2LQ
ODS code N82046
1.7 km
DINGLE PARK PRACTICE
PARK STREET, TOXTETH, LIVERPOOL, L8 6QP
ODS code N82033
1.7 km
DR JUDE'S PRACTICE - RIVERSIDE
RIVERSIDE CENTRE FOR HEALTH, PARK STREET, LIVERPOOL, L8 6QP
ODS code N82646
1.7 km
GP PRACTICE RIVERSIDE (DR JUDE)
RIVERSIDE CTR FOR HEALTH, PARK STREET, LIVERPOOL, L8 6QP
ODS code N82091
1.7 km
BIGHAM ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
BIGHAM ROAD, LIVERPOOL, L6 6DW
ODS code N82671
1.8 km
THE ELMS MEDICAL CENTRE
3 THE ELMS, DINGLE, LIVERPOOL, L8 3SS
ODS code N82070
1.8 km
ALBION SURGERY
45 EVERTON ROAD, LIVERPOOL, L6 2EH
ODS code N82095
1.9 km
ISLINGTON HOUSE MEDICAL CENTRE
45 EVERTON ROAD, LIVERPOOL, L6 2EH
ODS code N82081
1.9 km
SANDRINGHAM MEDICAL CENTRE
1A AIGBURTH ROAD, AIGBURTH, LIVERPOOL, L17 4JP
ODS code N82641
2.1 km
GREENBANK DRIVE SURGERY
8 GREENBANK DRIVE, SEFTON PARK, LIVERPOOL, L17 1AW
ODS code N82059
2.1 km
BENIM MEDICAL CENTRE
2 PENVALLEY CRESCENT, LIVERPOOL, L6 3BY
ODS code N82067
2.4 km
Showing 20 of 58 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Chancellor Court
BCT · Liverpool
- 0.0 miles
Falkner Street
BCT · Liverpool
- 0.1 miles
Kingsley Road
BCT · Toxteth
- 0.1 miles
Crown Street
BCT · Toxteth
- 0.1 miles
Crown Street
BCT · Toxteth
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Liverpool 031A, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
17,822 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 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
11,215 published events cover 12 months, averaging 934.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 4,201 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.