Schools
22 open schools are in scope, including 14 primary and 4 secondary schools. Greenbank High School is the nearest published school at 931 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
PR8 2LJ
Duke's · Sefton · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- PR8 2LJ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 April 1985
- Terminated
- 1 June 1998
- Postcode area
- PR
- Postcode district
- PR8
- Postcode sector
- PR8 2
- Latitude
- 53.629917
- Longitude
- -3.021183
- British National Grid easting
- 332,566
- British National Grid northing
- 415,304
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Sefton · E08000014
- Electoral ward
- Duke's · E05016332
- Parish or community
- E43000168
- Westminster constituency
- Southport · E14001504
- Output area
- E00035337
- Lower layer super output area
- Sefton 009F · E01006974
- Middle layer super output area
- Sefton 009 · E02001437
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 PR8
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 22
- Primary
- 14
- Secondary
- 4
- 931 m
Greenbank High School
Academy converter
- 1.1 km
Birkdale Primary School
Community school
- 1.2 km
Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Primary School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 913
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 424
- Shoplifting 92
- Public order 91
- Anti social behaviour 61
- Drugs 51
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- PR8 2 residents
- 8,542
Age bands in PR8 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 9.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 7.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 13.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 41.5%
826 residents
673 residents
1,187 residents
2,488 residents
3,668 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
9
within 5 km straight-line
THE FAMILY SURGERY
107 LIVERPOOL RD, BIRKDALE, SOUTHPORT, PR8 4DB
ODS code N84625
654 m
GRANGE SURGERY
41 YORK ROAD, BIRKDALE, SOUTHPORT, PR8 2AD
ODS code N84024
983 m
CUMBERLAND HOUSE SURGERY
58 SCARISBRICK NEW ROAD, SOUTHPORT, PR8 6PQ
ODS code N84005
2.3 km
KEW SURGERY
85 TOWN LANE, SOUTHPORT, PR8 6RG
ODS code N84617
2.5 km
ST MARKS MEDICAL CENTRE (TCG MEDICAL)
42 DERBY ROAD, SOUTHPORT, PR9 0TZ
ODS code N84021
2.5 km
CHRISTIANA HARTLEY MEDICAL PRACTICE
5 CURZON ROAD, SOUTHPORT, PR8 6PL
ODS code N84013
2.7 km
AINSDALE MEDICAL CENTRE
66 STATION ROAD, AINSDALE, SOUTHPORT, PR8 3HW
ODS code N84012
3.3 km
AINSDALE VILLAGE SURGERY
THE SURGERY, 2 LEAMINGTON RD, AINSDALE, SOUTHPORT, PR8 3LB
ODS code N84014
3.4 km
NORWOOD SURGERY
11 NORWOOD AVENUE, SOUTHPORT, PR9 7EG
ODS code N84008
3.6 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Trafalgar Road
BCT · Birkdale
- 0.0 miles
Trafalgar Road
BCT · Birkdale
- 0.1 miles
Dover Road
BCT · Birkdale
- 0.2 miles
Waterloo Road
BCT · Birkdale
- 0.2 miles
Grosvenor Road
BCT · Birkdale
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Sefton 009F, 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
30,730 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
913 published events cover 12 months, averaging 76.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 424 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.