Bebington

15°CMist

• Today: 20° / 14° · 53% rain
• Tomorrow: 23° / 14° · Sunny

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:40Sunset 19:35

12h 54m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

17US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Wirral Tranmere, United Kingdom

120 reported · July 2026▼ 3% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences52
• Criminal damage & arson18
• Anti-social behaviour14
• Public order8

18 stop & searches · mostly controlled drugs

Neighbourhood team: Bebington · Merseyside

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

342 reported road collisions (2024)

85 killed or seriously injured · 421 casualties · 10.7 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

340 food businesses within 2 miles

• 282 rated 4–5 ★ (229 top)
• 9 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Port Sunlight (1.0 km)
• 35 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£215,575 average▲ 7.8% YoY

Across Wirral · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£852 average monthly rent▲ 6.8% YoY

• 1 bed £567
• 2 bed £734
• 3 bed £897

Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents · to 2026-07

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

• Cheapest petrol: 155.9p · Esso (9.3 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 144.8p · AppleGreen (7.6 km)

29 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

150 charging locations within ~8 km

• 9 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 150 kW
• Nearest: RAW GREENE KING WELLINGTON 1 (0.7 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres2
• Swimming pools1
• Sports pitches41
• Playgrounds6

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)

More deprived than the average in England

Ranked 77 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

25% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

£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%)

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

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Wirral

324 CQC-registered services

• Care homes112
• GP practices63
• Dentists67
• Homecare agencies52
• Hospitals & hospices7

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

Source: Care Quality Commission · Wirral

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

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

231 applications decided

89.2% granted · 206 granted, 25 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

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)

• Schools15
• GPs & clinics3
• Pharmacies4
• Supermarkets1
• Parks & greens14
• Restaurants & cafés30

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

10,230 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

51 jobs advertised · £32,263 avg

e.g. Spanish Tutors Required Bebington, Become a Physics Tutor in Bebington – Flexible & Remote, Online Maths Tutor - Part Time

Source: Adzuna

£728 median full-time weekly pay

3.5% 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

91% low-carbon electricity

Nuclear 55% · Wind 32% · Imports 6% · Biomass 5%

18 gCO₂/kWh · very 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

8 GP surgeries · 6 pharmacies in CH63

• Civic Medical Centre
• Kings Lane Medical Practice
• Teehey Lane Surgery

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Birkenhead:

• Ban the sale of helium balloons1,185 local signatures · 3,730 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office450 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership384 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s340 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Change surrogacy law to recognise intended parents from birth298 local signatures · 112,809 nationwide

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-08-06

• Wirral Grammar School for Girls · 0.2 km

  Wirral Grammar School for Girls is an all-girls grammar school on the Wirral Peninsula in Merseyside, England.

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  Wirral Grammar School for Boys · 0.2 km

  Wirral Grammar School for Boys is an 11–18 boys maintained selective grammar school founded in 1931. It is situated on a 9.1 acres (3.7 ha) site to the west of Port Sunlight at Cross Lane, Bebington, on the Wirral Pen…

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  Co-op Academy Bebington · 0.3 km

  Co-op Academy Bebington is an 11–18 mixed, secondary school and sixth form with academy status in Bebington, Merseyside, England. It was established in 1915 and adopted its present name after becoming an academy in Ap…

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  Bebington · 0.6 km

  Bebington is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, in Merseyside, England. Historically part of Cheshire, it is 5 miles (8 km) south of Liverpool, close to the River Mersey on the eastern side of the Wirral Pe…

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  Municipal Borough of Bebington · 0.7 km

  Bebington was a local government district on the Wirral Peninsula, in Cheshire, England.

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  St Andrew's Church, Bebington · 0.7 km

  St Andrew's Church is in the town of Bebington, Wirral, Merseyside, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building. The architectural historian Raymond Richar…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)