Schools
17 open schools are in scope, including 12 primary and 4 secondary schools. Merefield School is the nearest published school at 425 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
PR8 3XD
Ainsdale · Sefton · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Ainsdale
- Local authority
- Sefton
- Constituency
- Sefton Central
- Postcode district
- PR8
- Postcode sector
- PR8 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- PR8 3XD
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 December 2001
- Terminated
- 1 April 2002
- Postcode area
- PR
- Postcode district
- PR8
- Postcode sector
- PR8 3
- Latitude
- 53.594024
- Longitude
- -3.047317
- British National Grid easting
- 330,779
- British National Grid northing
- 411,336
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
- E00035076
- Lower layer super output area
- Sefton 012C · E01006923
- 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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 17
- Primary
- 12
- Secondary
- 4
- 425 m
Merefield School
Academy special converter
- 573 m
Shoreside Primary School
Academy sponsor led
- 769 m
Kings Meadow Primary School and Early Years Education Centre
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 543
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 230
- Shoplifting 78
- Public order 55
- Criminal damage and arson 50
- Anti social behaviour 45
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
5
within 5 km straight-line
AINSDALE VILLAGE SURGERY
THE SURGERY, 2 LEAMINGTON RD, AINSDALE, SOUTHPORT, PR8 3LB
ODS code N84014
1.1 km
AINSDALE MEDICAL CENTRE
66 STATION ROAD, AINSDALE, SOUTHPORT, PR8 3HW
ODS code N84012
1.1 km
CHAPEL LANE SURGERY
13 CHAPEL LANE, FORMBY, LIVERPOOL, L37 4DL
ODS code N84006
4.2 km
THE VILLAGE SURGERY FORMBY
12 ELBOW LANE, FORMBY, LIVERPOOL, L37 4AW
ODS code N84018
4.3 km
THE FAMILY SURGERY
107 LIVERPOOL RD, BIRKDALE, SOUTHPORT, PR8 4DB
ODS code N84625
4.6 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Pinfold Lane
BCT · Ainsdale
- 0.1 miles
Pinfold Lane
BCT · Ainsdale
- 0.1 miles
Pinfold Lane
BCT · Ainsdale
- 0.2 miles
Gleneagles Drive
BCT · Ainsdale
- 0.2 miles
Penrith Avenue
BCT · Ainsdale
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Sefton 012C, 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
25,355 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 9 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
543 published events cover 12 months, averaging 45.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 230 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.