Bootle
Bootle is covered by postcode districts L9, L10, L20, L21, L29, L30 and 6 more. It is mostly in the Sefton council area: 1,422 of its 1,428 postcodes. The others are in Liverpool.
ONS publishes this built-up area as Bootle (Sefton).
Every postcode in Bootle, and which are new since 2020
- New since 2020: 25
- In use before 2020: 1,403
- Outline: where 5 or more new postcodes since 2020 lie together
Of the 1,428 postcodes in Bootle that ONS places, 25 are new since 2020 and 1,403 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.
The middle of its postcodes: latitude 53.4649, longitude -2.9827. 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
Where the new postcodes lie together
- 8 new postcodes since 2020, outlined on the map. L30 1WJ, is the newest of them.
What is it like to live in Bootle?
Homes sold for a typical £151,250 in the 12 months to August 2026, up 0.8% on the 12 months before. At 1,152 of the 1,310 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 33 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 5 of its 1,428 postcodes. It has at least 8 primary schools and 4 secondary schools at its postcodes. At least 5 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Orrell Park, 1.3 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.
We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge.
Source: HM Land Registry, Ofcom, the Environment Agency, the Department for Education, NHS England and the Department for Transport, as each section of this page says. See all our data sources
What do homes cost in Bootle?
Homes in Bootle sold for a typical £151,250 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 366 sales, up 0.8% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.
- Detached £262,500 22 sales
- Semi-detached £185,000 134 sales
- Terraced £130,000 174 sales
- Flat or maisonette £65,000 36 sales
Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.
Across the whole L20 district, Bootle's main postcode district: a typical £140,000.
Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Bootle: 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
Are new homes being built in Bootle?
25 of the 1,428 postcodes now in use in Bootle came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 453 homes sold in Bootle were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the L20 district, 0%.
The newest postcodes
A new postcode is often a new street or estate, but Royal Mail also makes new postcodes when it reorganises old ones, so not every one means new homes. Only postcodes still in use are counted.
New homes among the homes sold
| Period | In Bootle | Across the L20 district |
|---|---|---|
| The 12 months to August 2026 | 1 of 366 (Under 1%) | 0 of 233 (0%) |
| The 12 months to August 2025 | 0 of 453 (0%) | 0 of 257 (0%) |
Standard sales of homes at market value that HM Land Registry marks as newly built. New homes take longer to be registered than other sales, so the latest 12 months count fewer of them than were sold. A share is given from 5 sales or more.
Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
What broadband can you get in Bootle?
Ofcom reports on 1,310 of the 1,428 postcodes in Bootle. At 1,152 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.
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 checkerSource: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Is Bootle at risk of flooding?
5 of the 1,428 postcodes in Bootle 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 33 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.
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, 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
Which schools are in Bootle?
The open schools at the postcodes in Bootle (the first 8 primaries by distance from its middle). A school for ages 4 to 18 is listed under both. Distances are straight lines from the middle of its postcodes. Distance is not a catchment: each council sets its own admission rules.
Primary
- Springwell Park Community Primary School100 m 440 pupils, 482 places
- St Robert Bellarmine Catholic Primary School400 m 236 pupils, 210 places
- King's Lander Primary Academy850 m 234 pupils, 210 places
- Linacre Primary School900 m 134 pupils, 210 places
- St Monica's Catholic Primary School950 m 446 pupils, 420 places
- Christ Church Church of England Controlled Primary School1.3 km 440 pupils, 450 places
- All Saints Catholic Primary School1.4 km 312 pupils, 420 places
- Thomas Gray Primary School1.4 km 318 pupils, 210 places
Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. Each school opens its own record there. How we use it
How far is the station from Bootle?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Bootle is Orrell Park Rail Station, 1.3 km away in a straight line.
- Orrell Park Rail Station Railway station 1.3 kmCycle
- Walton (Merseyside) Rail Station Railway station 1.5 kmCycle
- Bootle New Strand Rail Station Railway station 1.5 kmCycle
Straight-line distances from the centre point, not routes. Walk: under 1.2 km. Cycle: 1.2 to 5 km. Drive: further.
Straight-line distances from the middle of the postcodes, not routes. Each postcode page lists its own nearest stations and bus stops. The Department for Transport's register does not say how often services run.
Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Which GP surgeries are in Bootle?
The GP practices at the postcodes in Bootle, the first 5 by distance from its middle. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.
- Aintree Road Medical Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report March 2018, over 3 years old · Phone 0151 922 1768 950 mWalk
- North Park Health Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Inadequate CQC report March 2023, over 3 years old · Phone 0151 922 3841 1.1 kmWalk
- The Strand Medical Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report January 2024 · Phone 0151 922 1600 1.4 kmCycle
- Moore Street Medical Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report December 2023 · Phone 0151 944 1066 1.5 kmCycle
- Park Street Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report August 2021, over 3 years old · Phone 0151 944 1090 1.6 kmCycle
Source: NHS England, Organisation Data Service (GP practices), read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Is Bootle safe? Crime recorded around it
Police.uk records 5,270 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Bootle over the 12 months from September 2025 to August 2026. August 2026 is the latest month it has published. These are counts, not a rate: we hold no count of the people who live, work or pass through, so we do not say whether a place is safe.
Each month, September 2025 to August 2026
- 451 September 2025
- 474 October 2025
- 418 November 2025
- 437 December 2025
- 396 January 2026
- 400 February 2026
- 490 March 2026
- 358 April 2026
- 417 May 2026
- 470 June 2026
- 509 July 2026
- 450 August 2026
By kind, over the 12 months
Also: vehicle crime 144, burglary 120, robbery 71, possession of weapons 51, bicycle theft 50, theft from the person 16.
Police.uk says its locations "always represent the approximate location of a crime". Each crime is moved to the nearest of a fixed list of map points, each over a street centre, a public place or a commercial premises, chosen so that every point covers at least eight addresses or none. A mile is a wide circle: in a town it takes in the centre and its shops, where much crime is recorded.
Crime around one postcodeSource: Police.uk (data.police.uk), data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Who runs Bootle?
- Councils
- Sefton (1,422) and Liverpool (6)
- Parliamentary constituencies
- Bootle (1,414), Liverpool Riverside (6), Liverpool Walton (5) and 1 other
- Police force area
- Merseyside
- Region
- North West
- Country
- England
Where the place crosses a boundary, a row lists each side with its number of postcodes. Check a postcode for its own. What council am I in?
Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. See all our data sources
Moving to Bootle
Who to tell and what to sort out in your first week. Most of Bootle is in Sefton; near its edge, check which council a postcode is in.
- Tell Sefton about council tax Council tax, on sefton.gov.uk
- Register to vote at the new address Register to vote on GOV.UK
- Register with a GP practice The GP practices in Bootle
- Take meter readings on the day you move in
- Power cut? Call 105. It is free. About 105, the power cut number
- Find out your bin day Check your bin day on BinDayBuddy, which reads the council's own collection system
Bootle postcodes
1,428 postcodes in use in Bootle, by district:
Those districts are all in the L postcode area.
Check a Bootle postcode
Enter a full postcode to see its ward, its flood risk, house prices in its sector and its nearest schools.
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Places near Bootle
With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Bootle's £151,250. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.
Questions about Bootle
- What is it like to live in Bootle?
- Homes sold for a typical £151,250 in the 12 months to August 2026, up 0.8% on the 12 months before. At 1,152 of the 1,310 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 33 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 5 of its 1,428 postcodes. It has at least 8 primary schools and 4 secondary schools at its postcodes. At least 5 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Orrell Park, 1.3 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge. Source: HM Land Registry, Ofcom, the Environment Agency, the Department for Education, NHS England and the Department for Transport, as each section of this page says.
- What is the postcode for Bootle?
- Bootle is covered by postcode districts L9, L10, L20, L21, L29, L30 and 6 more, across 1,428 postcodes in use. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
- How much are houses in Bootle?
- Homes in Bootle sold for a typical £151,250 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 366 sales, up 0.8% on the 12 months before. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026.
- What schools are in Bootle?
- In Bootle, primary schools at its postcodes include Springwell Park Community Primary School, St Robert Bellarmine Catholic Primary School and King's Lander Primary Academy; secondary schools at its postcodes include King's Leadership Academy Hawthornes, PANDA Schools and The Salesian Academy of St John Bosco. Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026.
- Does Bootle have a railway station?
- Yes: Orrell Park is 1.3 km from the centre point of the postcodes in Bootle, in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
- What broadband can you get in Bootle?
- Ofcom reports on 1,310 of the 1,428 postcodes in Bootle. At 1,152 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026.
- Is Bootle at risk of flooding?
- 5 of the 1,428 postcodes in Bootle 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 33 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk. This is long-term risk for the land, and leaves out surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
- Are new homes being built in Bootle?
- 25 of the 1,428 postcodes now in use in Bootle came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 453 homes sold in Bootle were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the L20 district, 0%. Source: ONS Postcode Directory and HM Land Registry Price Paid Data.
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