Bebington

9°COvercast

• Today: 11° / 7° · 28% rain
• Tomorrow: 12° / 6° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 07:14Sunset 16:36

9h 22m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

25US 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

114 reported · August 2026▼ 6% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences50
• Anti-social behaviour17
• Criminal damage & arson12
• Public order9

11 stop & searches · mostly controlled drugs

Neighbourhood team: Bebington · 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)

335 food businesses within 2 miles

• 281 rated 4–5 ★ (229 top)
• 8 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

£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 (9.3 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 144.8p · AppleGreen (7.6 km)

19 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)

• 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
• 202 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)

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

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

10,525 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

30 jobs advertised · £29,693 avg

e.g. Work from Home Independent Contractor, Cleaner, Spanish Tutors Required Bebington

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

69% low-carbon electricity

Wind 43% · Gas 29% · Nuclear 26% · Imports 3%

113 gCO₂/kWh · moderate 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 · 3,791 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

• 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)