Wallasey

16°COvercast

• Today: 18° / 14° · 26% rain
• Tomorrow: 21° / 16° · Sunny

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:40Sunset 19:35

12h 55m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

27US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: ozone

Source: WAQI · Wirral Tranmere, United Kingdom

143 reported · July 2026▼ 7% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences65
• Anti-social behaviour27
• Public order15
• Shoplifting8

17 stop & searches · mostly controlled drugs

Neighbourhood team: Wallasey · 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)

468 food businesses within 2 miles

• 378 rated 4–5 ★ (280 top)
• 19 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

£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 (7.1 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 144.8p · AppleGreen (4.6 km)

28 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)

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
• 19 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

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)

10,230 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

114 jobs advertised · £36,871 avg

e.g. French Tutors Required Wallasey, Teaching Assistant, Key Stage 2 Class in the Wirral, Electrician

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

44% low-carbon electricity

Gas 53% · Nuclear 21% · Wind 21% · Imports 3%

211 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

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Wallasey:

• Stop a single Minister having the final say on national infrastructure projects468 local signatures · 14,312 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office437 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership358 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Hold a referendum to bring the water industry into public ownership353 local signatures · 163,883 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s332 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide

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

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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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