L38 postcode district: Hightown and around, Sefton

L38 is a postcode district in England, with 100 postcodes in use in 9 sectors. It has postcodes in Hightown and Formby. Its council is Sefton.

Postcodes in use
100
Sectors
9
Council
Sefton
Places
2 places

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

Every postcode in L38, by gigabit broadband

Map of every postcode in L38, by gigabit broadband Of the 100 postcodes in L38 that ONS places, 26 have no home or business that can get gigabit, 37 have some that can, 36 can all get it and 1 have no Ofcom figure. One group of postcodes without gigabit is outlined: 8 postcodes without gigabit. Places named: Hightown, Formby. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 500 m. L38 3SH: no Ofcom figureL38 0BB: gigabit for allL38 0BD: gigabit for allL38 0BE: gigabit for allL38 0BG: gigabit for allL38 0BP: gigabit for allL38 0BQ: gigabit for allL38 0BW: gigabit for allL38 1QE: gigabit for allL38 1QF: gigabit for allL38 1QG: gigabit for allL38 1QQ: gigabit for allL38 3RE: gigabit for allL38 3RF: gigabit for allL38 3RG: gigabit for allL38 3RJ: gigabit for allL38 3RW: gigabit for allL38 3RZ: gigabit for allL38 6JA: gigabit for allL38 6JD: gigabit for allL38 6JG: gigabit for allL38 6JL: gigabit for allL38 9AN: gigabit for allL38 9AW: gigabit for allL38 9EA: gigabit for allL38 9EB: gigabit for allL38 9ED: gigabit for allL38 9EH: gigabit for allL38 9EQ: gigabit for allL38 9ET: gigabit for allL38 9EU: gigabit for allL38 9EX: gigabit for allL38 9EZ: gigabit for allL38 9GG: gigabit for allL38 9GH: gigabit for allL38 9GL: gigabit for allL38 9GQ: gigabit for allL38 0BA: some gigabitL38 0BH: some gigabitL38 0BJ: some gigabitL38 0BL: some gigabitL38 0BN: some gigabitL38 0BR: some gigabitL38 0BS: some gigabitL38 0BT: some gigabitL38 0BU: some gigabitL38 1QA: some gigabitL38 1QB: some gigabitL38 1QD: some gigabitL38 3RH: some gigabitL38 3RL: some gigabitL38 3RN: some gigabitL38 3RQ: some gigabitL38 3RR: some gigabitL38 3SG: some gigabitL38 5DA: some gigabitL38 6JB: some gigabitL38 6JE: some gigabitL38 6JF: some gigabitL38 6JJ: some gigabitL38 6JQ: some gigabitL38 9EE: some gigabitL38 9EF: some gigabitL38 9EG: some gigabitL38 9EJ: some gigabitL38 9EL: some gigabitL38 9EN: some gigabitL38 9EP: some gigabitL38 9ER: some gigabitL38 9ES: some gigabitL38 9EY: some gigabitL38 9GE: some gigabitL38 9GF: some gigabitL38 9GJ: some gigabitL38 0AA: no gigabitL38 0BF: no gigabitL38 0DB: no gigabitL38 1AB: no gigabitL38 1QH: no gigabitL38 3AB: no gigabitL38 3RA: no gigabitL38 3RB: no gigabitL38 3RD: no gigabitL38 3RP: no gigabitL38 3RS: no gigabitL38 3RT: no gigabitL38 3RU: no gigabitL38 3RX: no gigabitL38 3RY: no gigabitL38 3SF: no gigabitL38 4JB: no gigabitL38 5AA: no gigabitL38 5DB: no gigabitL38 5DD: no gigabitL38 5DE: no gigabitL38 6JH: no gigabitL38 7JB: no gigabitL38 7JD: no gigabitL38 8AF: no gigabitL38 9EW: no gigabit HightownFormby 8 postcodes without gigabit, outlined: this goes to L38 3RX, the one nearest the middle of them8 postcodes without gigabit Map of every postcode in L38, by gigabit broadband Of the 100 postcodes in L38 that ONS places, 26 have no home or business that can get gigabit, 37 have some that can, 36 can all get it and 1 have no Ofcom figure. One group of postcodes without gigabit is outlined: 8 postcodes without gigabit. Places named: Hightown, Formby. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 1 km. HightownFormby
  • No home or business can get gigabit: 26
  • Some can get gigabit: 37
  • Every home and business can get gigabit: 36
  • Ofcom gives no figure: 1
  • Outline: where 5 or more postcodes without gigabit lie together

Of the 100 postcodes in L38 that ONS places, 26 have no home or business that can get gigabit, 37 have some that can, 36 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. A dashed outline shows where 5 or more lie within 160 metres of each other. It is not a boundary, and no boundary is drawn.

The middle of its postcodes: latitude 53.5243, longitude -3.0510. 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

26 postcodes here have no gigabit. These are the 12 first in postcode order.

L38 0AAL38 0BFL38 0DBL38 1ABL38 1QHL38 3ABL38 3RAL38 3RBL38 3RDL38 3RPL38 3RSL38 3RT

Where the postcodes without gigabit lie together

  • 8 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. L38 3RX, is the one nearest the middle of them.

What broadband can you get in L38?

Ofcom reports on 99 of the 100 postcodes in L38. At 36 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit36 of 99
Postcodes where every home can get superfast85 of 99

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 L38 at risk of flooding?

12 of the 100 postcodes in L38 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 21 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 12 of 100 postcodes High: 2Medium: 19Low: 28Very low: 62

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 L38?

Homes in L38 sold for a typical £325,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 25 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £350,500 from 38 sales. With fewer than 30 sales a year, a change can come from which homes happened to sell, so we do not give one.

£325,000 typical price, the 12 months to September 2026
£350,500 12 months to September 2025
  • Detached £502,500 12 sales
  • Semi-detached £275,000 9 sales
  • Terraced 3 sales, too few to price
  • Flat or maisonette 1 sale, too few to price

Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.

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 L38

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

L38 019 postcodesL38 19 postcodesL38 324 postcodesL38 41 postcodeL38 55 postcodesL38 610 postcodesL38 72 postcodesL38 81 postcodeL38 929 postcodes
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Places in L38

Towns and villages with postcodes in L38, and how many each has here.

Hightown postcodes,67Formby postcodes,1

Who covers L38

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 Central100

Police force areas

  • Merseyside100

Next to L38

L37 postcode district L39 postcode district All L districts Hightown postcodes

"Next to" is by number: the districts before and after L38 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.

Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0.

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