L6 postcode district: Liverpool and around

L6 is a postcode district in England, with 504 postcodes in use in 10 sectors. It has postcodes in Liverpool. Its council is Liverpool.

Postcodes in use: 504
Sectors: 10
Council: Liverpool
Places: Liverpool

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. See all our data sources

Every postcode in L6, and which are new since 2020

New since 2020: 17
In use before 2020: 487
Outline: where 5 or more new postcodes since 2020 lie together

Of the 504 postcodes in L6 that ONS places, 17 are new since 2020 and 487 were in use before 2020.

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. New since 2020 means it came into use in January 2020 or later. A dashed outline shows where 5 or more lie within 150 metres of each other. It is not a boundary, and 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 53.4190, longitude -2.9516. Open this area on OpenStreetMap

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026, the centre point of each postcode; when each came into use: the same directory; roads, rivers and built-up areas: 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. How we use them

The 5 newest postcodes

L6 2BNJanuary 2026 L6 0BQNovember 2025 L6 1BBMarch 2024 L6 1AROctober 2023 L6 1ASOctober 2023

Where the new postcodes lie together

7 new postcodes since 2020, outlined on the map. L6 1BB, is the newest of them.
5 new postcodes since 2020, outlined on the map. L6 0BQ, is the newest of them.

What broadband can you get in L6?

Ofcom reports on 498 of the 504 postcodes in L6. At 404 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 2 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s).

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit404 of 498

Postcodes where every home can get superfast475 of 498

Postcodes where some cannot get decent broadband2 of 498

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, Spring 2026, data for January 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Is L6 at risk of flooding?

None of the 504 postcodes in L6 is on the Environment Agency's list of postcodes with a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea.

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, Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea (postcodes in areas at risk), published 6 July 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

What do homes sell for in L6?

Homes in L6 sold for a typical £147,500 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 124 sales, up 13% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

£147,500 typical price, the 12 months to August 2026

£130,500 12 months to August 2025

▲ up 13% on the 12 months before

Detached £220,500 6 sales
Semi-detached £175,000 25 sales
Terraced £141,000 77 sales
Flat or maisonette £94,000 16 sales

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 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it