Schools
20 open schools are in scope, including 12 primary and 4 secondary schools. Birkdale High School is the nearest published school at 676 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
PR8 3HQ
Rural West · West Lancashire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Rural West
- Local authority
- West Lancashire
- Constituency
- West Lancashire
- Postcode district
- PR8
- Postcode sector
- PR8 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- PR8 3HQ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 November 2003
- Postcode area
- PR
- Postcode district
- PR8
- Postcode sector
- PR8 3
- Latitude
- 53.606846
- Longitude
- -3.018752
- British National Grid easting
- 332,690
- British National Grid northing
- 412,735
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- West Lancashire · E07000127
- Electoral ward
- Rural West · E05014938
- Parish or community
- E04005307
- Westminster constituency
- West Lancashire · E14001577
- Output area
- E00129382
- Lower layer super output area
- West Lancashire 003B · E01025495
- Middle layer super output area
- West Lancashire 003 · E02005306
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
- 20
- Primary
- 12
- Secondary
- 4
- 676 m
Birkdale High School
Academy converter
- 1.1 km
Farnborough Road Infant School
Community school
- 1.1 km
Farnborough Road Junior School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 580
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 295
- Shoplifting 71
- Public order 49
- Anti social behaviour 44
- Criminal damage and arson 37
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- PR8 3 residents
- 12,427
Age bands in PR8 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 19.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 26.8%
1,876 residents
1,225 residents
2,443 residents
3,532 residents
3,317 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
8
within 5 km straight-line
AINSDALE VILLAGE SURGERY
THE SURGERY, 2 LEAMINGTON RD, AINSDALE, SOUTHPORT, PR8 3LB
ODS code N84014
1.3 km
AINSDALE MEDICAL CENTRE
66 STATION ROAD, AINSDALE, SOUTHPORT, PR8 3HW
ODS code N84012
1.4 km
THE FAMILY SURGERY
107 LIVERPOOL RD, BIRKDALE, SOUTHPORT, PR8 4DB
ODS code N84625
2.5 km
GRANGE SURGERY
41 YORK ROAD, BIRKDALE, SOUTHPORT, PR8 2AD
ODS code N84024
3.4 km
KEW SURGERY
85 TOWN LANE, SOUTHPORT, PR8 6RG
ODS code N84617
3.6 km
CUMBERLAND HOUSE SURGERY
58 SCARISBRICK NEW ROAD, SOUTHPORT, PR8 6PQ
ODS code N84005
4.1 km
CHRISTIANA HARTLEY MEDICAL PRACTICE
5 CURZON ROAD, SOUTHPORT, PR8 6PL
ODS code N84013
4.4 km
ST MARKS MEDICAL CENTRE (TCG MEDICAL)
42 DERBY ROAD, SOUTHPORT, PR9 0TZ
ODS code N84021
4.7 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Philip Drive
BCT · Hillside
- 0.2 miles
Nixons Lane
BCT · Hillside
- 0.3 miles
Nixons Lane
BCT · Hillside
- 0.3 miles
Mary Avenue
BCT · Hillside
- 0.3 miles
Nixons Lane
BCT · Hillside
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for West Lancashire 003B, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
22,497 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
580 published events cover 12 months, averaging 48.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 295 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.