Wirral

9°CPatchy rain nearby

• Today: 10° / 7° · 40% rain
• Tomorrow: 11° / 8° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 07:18Sunset 16:32

9h 14m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

30US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Wirral Tranmere, United Kingdom

• 5.9 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
• 4.5% of adult (30+) deaths estimated attributable to fine-particle pollution

Lower is better for both figures.

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2024

123 reported · August 2026

• Violence & sexual offences53
• Anti-social behaviour26
• Criminal damage & arson10
• Vehicle crime8

8 stop & searches · mostly controlled drugs

Neighbourhood team: Oxton · Merseyside

Source: data.police.uk (within ~1 mile)

343 reported road collisions (2025)

81 killed or seriously injured · 419 casualties · 10.7 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

414 food businesses within 2 miles

• 343 rated 4–5 ★ (264 top)
• 15 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Upton (2.1 km)
• 30 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£221,673 average▲ 5.8% YoY

Across Wirral · to 2026-08

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£859 average monthly rent▲ 7% YoY

• 1 bed £572
• 2 bed £740
• 3 bed £905

Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents · to 2026-08

6.1× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 6.1 times median annual pay (6.1× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

4,300 property sales in the last 12 months

12 months to May 2026

A busier or quieter market is not by itself good or bad. Monthly counts are small and volatile, so only the annual total is shown.

Source: HM Land Registry UK HPI, 12 months to 2026-05

• Cheapest petrol: 155.9p · Esso (9.5 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 144.8p · AppleGreen (6.9 km)

18 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

133 charging locations within ~8 km

• 9 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 150 kW
• Nearest: o/s house 21 Walby Close, Woodchurch (0.8 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres3
• Gyms1
• Swimming pools1
• Sports pitches21
• Golf courses2
• Playgrounds3

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

320,199 residents in Wirral · 1,990/km²

• Under 16: 18%
• 16–64: 60%
• 65+: 22%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

• Moves in from elsewhere in the UK11,405
• Moves out to elsewhere in the UK9,533
• Net moves+1,872

Residential moves between local authorities (counts of moves, not people) · ONS Internal migration, YE Jun 2025

More deprived than the average in England

Ranked 106 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

23% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

£2,501 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band A (40% of 152,090)

Source: VOA council-tax stock · MHCLG band levels 2026-27

136 schools · 50,451 pupils

90 primary · 19 secondary · 27 other

Ofsted: 49 of 63 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (78%)

125 inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Wirral

325 CQC-registered services

• Care homes113
• GP practices65
• Dentists67
• Homecare agencies51
• Hospitals & hospices7

CQC ratings: 88% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 8 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Wirral

• Not in the Green Belt
• 27 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (England)

225 applications decided

89.3% granted · 201 granted, 24 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Alison McGovern

Labour

Birkenhead

Source: UK Parliament

Labour (minority)

• Lab 26
• Con 14
• LD 6
• Grn 14
• Ref 3
• Oth 3

Source: Open Council Data UK (CC BY-SA)

• Schools11
• GPs & clinics2
• Pharmacies2
• Supermarkets4
• Parks & greens11
• Restaurants & cafés10

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

10,525 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

642 jobs advertised · £37,533 avg

e.g. CTW IPS Employment Specialist, Level 3 Teaching Assistant, Key Stage 2 in the Wirral, Care Support Worker - Mendell Court, Bromborough

Source: Adzuna

£728 median full-time weekly pay

3.6% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£23,294 disposable income per head (2024)

Source: ONS / Nomis (claimant count · ASHE) · ONS regional GDHI

37% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 161,783 certificates

12.6% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

Source: MHCLG EPC statistics · DESNZ sub-regional fuel poverty

81% low-carbon electricity

Wind 54% · Nuclear 27% · Gas 16% · Imports 3%

63 gCO₂/kWh · low intensity

Latest estimate for North Wales & Merseyside · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 82.3 yrs women · 78.5 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy: 60.1 women · 59.1 men

72% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.3
• Feeling worthwhile7.6
• Happiness yesterday7.3
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.3

Average rating out of 10 · ONS personal well-being 2022-23

4 GP surgeries · 7 pharmacies in CH43

• Devaney Med Ctr
• The Villa Medical Centre
• Holmlands Med Ctr

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Birkenhead:

• Ban the sale of helium balloons1,185 local signatures · 3,791 nationwide
• Change surrogacy law to recognise intended parents from birth298 local signatures · 113,305 nationwide
• Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases289 local signatures · 105,832 nationwide
• Protect legal right to support for children with SEND209 local signatures · 111,357 nationwide
• Stop a single Minister having the final say on national infrastructure projects172 local signatures · 15,667 nationwide

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-10-05

• Woodchurch railway station · 0.1 km

  Woodchurch is a proposed railway station in Merseyside, situated between Upton and Heswall on the Borderlands Line.

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  Prenton Brook · 1.0 km

  Prenton Brook is a tributary of the River Fender, in Wirral, Merseyside. The brook starts as field drainage east of Thingwall and flows through Barnston Dale. Prenton Brook joins the River Fender at Prenton. The River…

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  Ridgeway High School, Birkenhead · 1.1 km

  Ridgeway High School is a co-educational, comprehensive school in Noctorum, Birkenhead, on the Wirral Peninsula in England. The school caters for pupils between the ages of 11 and 16, from within the Local Authority a…

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  Noctorum · 1.2 km

  Noctorum is a suburb of Birkenhead, Merseyside, England. Administratively it is within the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral as part of Claughton Ward. Noctorum is in the north east of the Wirral Peninsula, bounded by th…

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  Wirral Peninsula · 1.3 km

  The Wirral Peninsula, known locally as the Wirral, is a peninsula in North West England. The roughly rectangular peninsula is about 15 miles (24 km) long and 7 miles (11 km) wide, and is bounded by the Dee Estuary to…

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  Woodchurch High School · 1.3 km

  Woodchurch High School is a non-selective co-educational secondary school with academy status for people aged 11 to 16. It is located at Woodchurch, on the Wirral Peninsula, England. The school holds Specialist Engine…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)