Property market
The five-year median is £260,000 from 1 recorded sale in PR8 2QA. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Sefton is £225,433 in June 2026, up 5.2% year on year.
PR8 2QA
Ainsdale · Sefton · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- PR8 2QA
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- PR
- Postcode district
- PR8
- Postcode sector
- PR8 2
- Latitude
- 53.606787
- Longitude
- -3.056580
- British National Grid easting
- 330,187
- British National Grid northing
- 412,765
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Sefton · E08000014
- Electoral ward
- Ainsdale · E05016325
- Parish or community
- E43000168
- Westminster constituency
- Sefton Central · E14001463
- Output area
- E00035082
- Lower layer super output area
- Sefton 012B · E01006922
- Middle layer super output area
- Sefton 012 · E02001440
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
Property
2 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Railway Cottages, 21, Shore Road, Ainsdale, Southport, PR8 2QA | 25 November 2025 | £260,000 |
| 58, Shore Road, Ainsdale, Southport, PR8 2QA | 9 February 2007 | £295,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 14
- Primary
- 10
- Secondary
- 3
- 995 m
Shoreside Primary School
Academy sponsor led
- 1.1 km
Merefield School
Academy special converter
- 1.8 km
Ainsdale St John's Church of England Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 300
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 102
- Shoplifting 68
- Public order 35
- Criminal damage and arson 29
- Anti social behaviour 20
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 4
- Postcode households
- 3
- Residents per household
- 1.3
- PR8 2 residents
- 8,542
2 female, 2 male
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
This postcode contained 0% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider PR8 2 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
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.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 25%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
4
within 5 km straight-line
AINSDALE MEDICAL CENTRE
66 STATION ROAD, AINSDALE, SOUTHPORT, PR8 3HW
ODS code N84012
1.3 km
AINSDALE VILLAGE SURGERY
THE SURGERY, 2 LEAMINGTON RD, AINSDALE, SOUTHPORT, PR8 3LB
ODS code N84014
1.5 km
THE FAMILY SURGERY
107 LIVERPOOL RD, BIRKDALE, SOUTHPORT, PR8 4DB
ODS code N84625
3.9 km
GRANGE SURGERY
41 YORK ROAD, BIRKDALE, SOUTHPORT, PR8 2AD
ODS code N84024
4.5 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Coastal Road
BCT · Ainsdale
- 0.1 miles
Coastal Road
BCT · Ainsdale
- 0.1 miles
Pontins
TXR · Ainsdale
- 0.2 miles
Chatsworth Road
BCT · Ainsdale
- 0.3 miles
Westminster Drive
BCT · Ainsdale
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Sefton 012B, 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
26,872 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 10 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.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 2
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 1
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Schools
14 open schools are in scope, including 10 primary and 3 secondary schools. Shoreside Primary School is the nearest published school at 995 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
300 published events cover 12 months, averaging 25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 102 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.