L29 postcode district: Bootle and around, Sefton

L29 is a postcode district in England, with 22 postcodes in use in 7 sectors. It has postcodes in Bootle. Its council is Sefton.

Postcodes in use
22
Sectors
7
Council
Sefton
Places
Bootle

Source: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026.

Every postcode in L29, by gigabit broadband

Map of every postcode in L29, by gigabit broadband Of the 22 postcodes in L29 that ONS places, 1 have no home or business that can get gigabit, 3 have some that can, 17 can all get it and 1 have no Ofcom figure. One postcode lies beyond the edge and is listed under the map. Places named: Thornton & Hightown, Formby East. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 500 m. A5758A565 L29 5XB: no Ofcom figureL29 3EA: gigabit for allL29 5XA: gigabit for allL29 6YA: gigabit for allL29 6YB: gigabit for allL29 7WA: gigabit for allL29 7WB: gigabit for allL29 7WD: gigabit for allL29 7WE: gigabit for allL29 7WG: gigabit for allL29 7WH: gigabit for allL29 7WJ: gigabit for allL29 7WL: gigabit for allL29 8AA: gigabit for allL29 8YA: gigabit for allL29 9AD: gigabit for allL29 9AE: gigabit for allL29 9AF: gigabit for allL29 6YD: some gigabitL29 8YB: some gigabitL29 3EB: no gigabit Thornton & HightownFormby East Map of every postcode in L29, by gigabit broadband Of the 22 postcodes in L29 that ONS places, 1 have no home or business that can get gigabit, 3 have some that can, 17 can all get it and 1 have no Ofcom figure. One postcode lies beyond the edge and is listed under the map. Places named: Thornton & Hightown, Formby East. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 500 m. A565 Thornton & HightownFormby East
  • No home or business can get gigabit: 1
  • Some can get gigabit: 3
  • Every home and business can get gigabit: 17
  • Ofcom gives no figure: 1

Of the 22 postcodes in L29 that ONS places, 1 have no home or business that can get gigabit, 3 have some that can, 17 can all get it and 1 have no Ofcom figure.

Each mark is a postcode's centre point as ONS gives it, not a building. Press one to see its postcode and open its page. No boundary is drawn. Where marks overlap, the one first in the key is drawn; the counts include every postcode. Names in italics are council wards: we hold no town or village names here.

The middle of its postcodes: latitude 53.5076, longitude -2.9855. Open this area on OpenStreetMap

Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 2026; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Ordnance Survey open maps. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Drawn by us. Street map: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Zoomstack, Open Government Licence v3.0, drawn with MapLibre.

Postcodes without gigabit

Further out, not drawn

This postcode lies well apart from the rest, so the map is drawn without it to show the rest closer; it is in every count.

What broadband can you get in L29?

Ofcom reports on 21 of the 22 postcodes in L29. At 17 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit17 of 21
Postcodes where every home can get superfast17 of 21

Ofcom gives each postcode's share of homes and businesses, not how many there are, so these count postcodes. Each postcode page has its own figures. A provider's checker answers for one address.

Check one address on Ofcom's checker

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026.

Is L29 at risk of flooding?

7 of the 22 postcodes in L29 have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 2 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 7 of 22 postcodes High: 1Medium: 1Low: 44Very low: 6

High: 3.3% or more a year (1 in 30). Medium: 1% to 3.3% a year. Low: 0.1% to 1% a year. Very low: under 0.1% a year (1 in 1,000). Each band is the chance of flooding in any one year.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, as the Environment Agency counts them, added up over the postcodes. It is for the land, not each building, and leaves out surface water, groundwater and sewers. Each postcode page has its own figures and its flood warning areas.

Source: Environment Agency flood risk, published 6 July 2026.

What do homes sell for in L29?

HM Land Registry records 3 sales of homes in L29 in the 12 months to September 2026: too few to give a typical price.

  • Detached 1 sale, too few to price
  • Semi-detached 1 sale, too few to price
  • Terraced 1 sale, too few to price

Standard sales of homes at market value. A typical price is the median, the middle sale. Sales take weeks to be registered, so the last month or two are incomplete. Each postcode page gives the figure for its own postcode sector.

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.

Postcodes in L29

Pick a sector, then a postcode. A sector is the district plus the next digit.

UK postcode format explained

Places in L29

Towns and villages with postcodes in L29, and how many each has here.

Who covers L29

How many of the district's postcodes in use fall under each council, constituency and police force area.

Councils

What council am I in?

Constituencies

  • Sefton Central22

Police force areas

  • Merseyside22

Next to L29

"Next to" is by number: the districts before and after L29 in the L area.

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Where the facts on this page come from

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

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