Schools
13 open schools are in scope, including 9 primary and 1 secondary schools. Banks Methodist School is the nearest published school at 375 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
PR9 8EF
North Meols & Hesketh Bank · West Lancashire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- West Lancashire
- Constituency
- Southport
- Postcode district
- PR9
- Postcode sector
- PR9 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- PR9 8EF
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1999
- Postcode area
- PR
- Postcode district
- PR9
- Postcode sector
- PR9 8
- Latitude
- 53.679455
- Longitude
- -2.911756
- British National Grid easting
- 339,873
- British National Grid northing
- 420,717
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- West Lancashire · E07000127
- Electoral ward
- North Meols & Hesketh Bank · E05014932
- Parish or community
- E04005311
- Westminster constituency
- Southport · E14001504
- Output area
- E00129443
- Lower layer super output area
- West Lancashire 002A · E01025507
- Middle layer super output area
- West Lancashire 002 · E02005305
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 PR9
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 13
- Primary
- 9
- Secondary
- 1
- 375 m
Banks Methodist School
Voluntary controlled school
- 604 m
Banks St Stephen's CofE School
Voluntary controlled school
- 2.4 km
St John's Church of England Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 222
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 97
- Anti social behaviour 51
- Criminal damage and arson 22
- Public order 13
- Other theft 9
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- PR9 8 residents
- 10,618
Age bands in PR9 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 21.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 26.2%
1,637 residents
974 residents
2,356 residents
3,227 residents
2,907 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
3
within 5 km straight-line
THE CORNER SURGERY (DR MULLA)
117 FYLDE ROAD, MARSHSIDE, SOUTHPORT, PR9 9XP
ODS code N84613
3.5 km
THE MARSHSIDE SURGERY
117 FYLDE ROAD, MARSHSIDE, SOUTHPORT, PR9 9XL
ODS code N84614
3.5 km
CHURCHTOWN MEDICAL CENTRE
137 CAMBRIDGE ROAD, CHURCHTOWN, SOUTHPORT, PR9 7LT
ODS code N84017
4.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Smithy Corner
BCT · Banks
- 0.3 miles
Methodist School
BCT · Banks
- 0.3 miles
Methodist School
BCT · Banks
- 0.3 miles
Smithy Corner
BCT · Banks
- 0.3 miles
Fleetwood Drive
BCT · Banks
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for West Lancashire 002A, 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
17,877 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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
222 published events cover 12 months, averaging 18.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 97 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.