Wallasey

10°CPatchy rain nearby

• Today: 11° / 8° · 27% rain
• Tomorrow: 12° / 7° · 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

21US 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

150 reported · August 2026▲ 3% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences65
• Anti-social behaviour18
• Public order14
• Shoplifting12

18 stop & searches · mostly controlled drugs

Neighbourhood team: Wallasey · 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)

456 food businesses within 2 miles

• 375 rated 4–5 ★ (280 top)
• 18 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Wallasey Village (0.3 km)
• 58 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 (7.1 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 144.8p · AppleGreen (4.6 km)

21 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

150 charging locations within ~8 km

• 7 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 150 kW
• Nearest: RAW GREENE KING LIGHTHOUSE 2 (0.4 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres1
• Gyms3
• Sports pitches53
• Golf courses4
• Playgrounds5

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
• 19 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

Dame Angela Eagle

Labour

Wallasey

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 & clinics6
• Pharmacies3
• Supermarkets5
• Parks & greens11
• Restaurants & cafés37

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

10,525 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

113 jobs advertised · £36,100 avg

e.g. Residential Conveyancing Fee Earner, Chef, Field Care Supervisor (B47FCS)

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

80% low-carbon electricity

Wind 54% · Nuclear 27% · Gas 17% · Imports 3%

66 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

5 GP surgeries · 7 pharmacies in CH45

• St Georges Medical Centre
• Manor Health Ctr
• St Hilary Group Practice

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Wallasey:

• Stop a single Minister having the final say on national infrastructure projects468 local signatures · 15,667 nationwide
• Ban the sale of helium balloons328 local signatures · 3,791 nationwide
• Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases300 local signatures · 105,832 nationwide
• Change surrogacy law to recognise intended parents from birth253 local signatures · 113,305 nationwide
• Protect legal right to support for children with SEND231 local signatures · 111,357 nationwide

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

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  Wallasey Village · 0.0 km

  Wallasey Village is a district and suburb of Wallasey, in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, England. At the 2001 Census the population of the area was 8,550.

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  English Martyrs' Church, Wallasey · 0.2 km

  English Martyrs' Church is in St George's Road, Wallasey, Wirral, Merseyside, England. It is an active Roman Catholic church in the diocese of Shrewsbury. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for Engla…

• St Mary's College, Wallasey · 0.2 km

  St Mary's Catholic College (SMC) is a Roman Catholic secondary school and sixth form with academy status in Wallasey, Wirral, in North West England. St Mary's is one of four Catholic secondary schools in the Metropoli…

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  Wallasey Village railway station · 0.3 km

  Wallasey Village railway station serves the Wallasey Village suburb of Wallasey, in Merseyside, England. It is situated on the Wirral Line 6¼ miles (9 km) west of Liverpool Lime Street on the Merseyrail network.

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  St Hilary's Church, Wallasey · 0.4 km

  St Hilary's Church is in the town of Wallasey, Wirral, Merseyside, England. It consists of a church built in 1858–59 and the separate tower of a former medieval church. Both the church and the tower are recorded in th…

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  Wallasey pub shooting · 0.4 km

  On the evening of 24 December 2022, one person was killed and five others were injured in a mass shooting at the Lighthouse pub in Wallasey, Merseyside, England. The perpetrator, 22-year-old Connor Chapman, was senten…

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