L72 postcode district: Bootle and around, Sefton

L72 is a postcode district in England, with 33 postcodes in use in 3 sectors. It has postcodes in Bootle and Crosby. Its council is Sefton.

Postcodes in use
33
Sectors
3
Council
Sefton
Places
2 places

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

Every postcode in L72, by flood risk

Map of every postcode in L72, by flood risk Of the 33 postcodes in L72 that ONS places, 33 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Litherland. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 500 m. A5036 L72 0AD: not on the flood risk listL72 8AD: not on the flood risk list Litherland Map of every postcode in L72, by flood risk Of the 33 postcodes in L72 that ONS places, 33 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Litherland. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 1 km. A5038 Litherland
  • A home or business at high risk: 0
  • At medium risk at worst: 0
  • At low risk at worst: 0
  • At very low risk only: 0
  • Not on the at-risk list: 33

Of the 33 postcodes in L72 that ONS places, 33 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list.

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.

The middle of its postcodes: latitude 53.4747, longitude -2.9674. 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; flood risk: Environment Agency, published 6 July 2026; 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

Is L72 at risk of flooding?

None of the 33 postcodes in L72 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

Postcodes in L72

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

L72 05 postcodesL72 116 postcodesL72 812 postcodes
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Places in L72

Towns and villages with postcodes in L72, and how many each has here.

Bootle postcodes,29Crosby postcodes,4

Who covers L72

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

  • Bootle33

Police force areas

  • Merseyside33

Next to L72

L71 postcode district L74 postcode district All L districts Bootle postcodes

"Next to" is by number: the districts before and after L72 in the L area.

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