Liverpool

What is it like to live in Liverpool?

Homes sold for a typical £195,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, up 5.4% on the 12 months before. At 8,983 of the 10,585 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 1,708 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 235 of its 11,097 postcodes. It has 122 primary schools, 35 secondary schools and 5 all-through schools at its postcodes within 12 km of its centre. At least 5 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Wavertree Technology Park, 300 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.

We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge.

Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data; Ofcom Connected Nations; Environment Agency flood risk; Get Information about Schools; NHS GP practices; NaPTAN. Each figure is from a section of this page, which gives its date.

What do homes cost in Liverpool?

Homes in Liverpool sold for a typical £195,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 3,839 sales, up 5.4% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

• Detached £362,500 362 sales
• Semi-detached £240,000 1,158 sales
• Terraced £168,000 1,563 sales
• Flat or maisonette £147,700 756 sales

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

Across the whole L25 district, Liverpool's main postcode district: a typical £270,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Liverpool: 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.

Are new homes being built in Liverpool?

415 of the 11,097 postcodes now in use in Liverpool came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 229 of the 5,299 homes sold in Liverpool were newly built (4%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the L25 district, Under 1%.

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

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.

Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.

What broadband can you get in Liverpool?

Ofcom reports on 10,585 of the 11,097 postcodes in Liverpool. At 8,983 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 3 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s).

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.

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

Is Liverpool at risk of flooding?

235 of the 11,097 postcodes in Liverpool 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 1,708 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 flood risk, published 6 July 2026.

Which schools are in Liverpool?

The open schools at the postcodes in Liverpool (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. Special schools and alternative provision, which children join by referral, are not listed.

An orange bar: the school has as many pupils as places, or more (Department for Education's figures).

Source: Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026. Each school opens its own record there.

How far is the station from Liverpool?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Liverpool is Wavertree Technology Park Rail Station, 300 m away in a straight line.

• Wavertree Technology Park Rail Station Railway station 300 mWalk
• Edge Hill Rail Station Railway station 1.3 kmCycle
• Broad Green Rail Station Railway station 2.2 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: NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.

Which GP surgeries are in Liverpool?

The GP practices at the postcodes in Liverpool, the first 5 by distance from its middle. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.

• Old Swan Health Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report January 2017, over 3 years old · Phone 0151 285 3737 950 mWalk
• Rock Court Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report November 2016, over 3 years old · Phone 0151 228 0672 950 mWalk
• Dunstan Village Group Practice Care Quality Commission rating: Requires improvement CQC report March 2023, over 3 years old · Phone 0151 734 3535 1.3 kmCycle
• Earle Road Medical Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report June 2016, over 3 years old · Phone 0151 733 7172 1.3 kmCycle
• Picton Green Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report July 2021, over 3 years old · Phone 0151 295 3377 1.3 kmCycle

Sources: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026; Care Quality Commission, ratings of 1 October 2026.

Is Liverpool safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 6,885 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Liverpool 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

By kind, over the 12 months

Also: burglary 235, other crime 126, robbery 97, bicycle theft 73, possession of weapons 63, theft from the person 42.

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.

Source: police.uk, data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026.

Who runs Liverpool?

Councils

Liverpool (10,589), Knowsley (491), Sefton (13) and 1 other

Parliamentary constituencies

Liverpool Riverside (3,363), Liverpool Garston (2,135), Liverpool Wavertree (1,926) and 5 others

Police force areas

Merseyside (11,093) and Cheshire (4)

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