Neston (Cheshire West and Chester)

11°COvercast

• Today: 11° / 7° · 27% rain
• Tomorrow: 12° / 7° · 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

24US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: ozone

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

1 reported · August 2026▼ 50% YoY

• Anti-social behaviour1

1 stop & searches · mostly controlled drugs

Neighbourhood team: Clatterbridge · 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)

121 food businesses within 2 miles

• 101 rated 4–5 ★ (95 top)
• 2 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Neston (2.2 km)
• 14 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: 157.9p · BP (5.5 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 189.9p · BP (5.5 km)

13 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

30 charging locations within ~8 km

• 3 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 150 kW
• Nearest: Garden House Nurseries, (1 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres1
• Swimming pools6
• Sports pitches23
• Playgrounds2

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

• Within the Green Belt
• 47 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

Matthew Patrick

Labour

Wirral West

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)

• Schools2
• Parks & greens62
• Restaurants & cafés2

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

10,525 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

£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

48% low-carbon electricity

Gas 50% · Nuclear 24% · Wind 23% · Imports 2%

195 gCO₂/kWh · high 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 · 4 pharmacies in CH64

• Neston Surgery
• Neston Medical Centre
• The Willaston Surgery

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Wirral West:

• Stop a single Minister having the final say on national infrastructure projects643 local signatures · 15,667 nationwide
• Ban the sale of helium balloons301 local signatures · 3,791 nationwide
• Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases237 local signatures · 105,832 nationwide
• Hold a UK-wide briefing on climate and nature risks208 local signatures · 127,144 nationwide
• Support the Ceramics Industry and protect British manufacturing jobs and skills186 local signatures · 111,154 nationwide

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

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  Wirral Urban District · 0.9 km

  Wirral Urban District was an urban district in Cheshire, England, from 1933 to 1974. It was created from part of the disbanded Wirral Rural District and covered an area on the south-west side of the Wirral Peninsula.…

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  Raby, Merseyside · 1.1 km

  Raby is a hamlet in the Wirral district of Merseyside, England. It is on the Wirral Peninsula, in the Clatterbridge Ward. The settlement is within the parliamentary constituency of Wirral South. Raby is a former civil…

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  All Saints Church, Thornton Hough · 1.2 km

  All Saints Church is in Raby Road, Thornton Hough, Merseyside, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the Deanery of Wirral, South, the archdeaconry of Chester, and the diocese of Chester. The church is re…

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  St George's United Reformed Church, Thornton Hough · 1.3 km

  St George's Church is in Manor Road, Thornton Hough, Wirral, Merseyside, England. Formerly home to a congregation of the United Reformed Church, the church closed in July 2021 and the building is now privately owned.…

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  Thornton Hough · 1.3 km

  Thornton Hough is a village in the Wirral district of Merseyside, England. The village lies in the more rural inland part of the Wirral Peninsula and is of pre-Norman Conquest origins. The village grew during the owne…

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  Hinderton Hall · 1.6 km

  Hinderton Hall is a country house to the northeast of Neston, Cheshire, England.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)