West Kirby

16°CMist

• Today: 19° / 9° · 84% rain
• Tomorrow: 20° / 14° · Mist

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:39Sunset 19:38

12h 59m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

18US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: ozone

Source: WAQI · Wirral Tranmere, United Kingdom

65 reported · July 2026▲ 27% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences21
• Anti-social behaviour18
• Public order8
• Shoplifting5

4 stop & searches · mostly offensive weapons

Neighbourhood team: Hoylake and Meols · 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)

166 food businesses within 2 miles

• 138 rated 4–5 ★ (119 top)
• 3 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: West Kirby (0.1 km)
• 39 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: 159.9p · Esso (2.9 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 189.9p · Asda (6 km)

11 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

27 charging locations within ~8 km

• 3 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 50 kW
• Nearest: Morrisons West Kirby (0.2 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres2
• Swimming pools3
• Sports pitches19
• Golf courses2
• 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
• 8 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

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)

• Schools9
• GPs & clinics1
• Pharmacies6
• Supermarkets2
• Parks & greens11
• Restaurants & cafés27

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

10,230 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

28 jobs advertised · £48,977 avg

e.g. Online Biology Tutoring Job in West Kirby – Flexible Schedule, Cleaning Manager, Become a Maths Tutor in West Kirby – Flexible & Remote

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

88% low-carbon electricity

Wind 59% · Nuclear 26% · Gas 7% · Imports 5%

31 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

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Wirral West:

• Stop a single Minister having the final say on national infrastructure projects640 local signatures · 14,312 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office355 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Hold a referendum to bring the water industry into public ownership348 local signatures · 163,883 nationwide
• Ban the sale of helium balloons301 local signatures · 3,730 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership281 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide

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

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  West Kirby railway station · 0.0 km

  West Kirby railway station serves the town of West Kirby, in Merseyside, England. It is the terminus of the West Kirby branch line, one of the two branches of the Wirral Line on the Merseyrail network. There is a cent…

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  West Kirby · 0.0 km

  West Kirby is a coastal town in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, Merseyside, England. In the north west of the Wirral Peninsula and at the mouth of the River Dee, the town is contiguous with Hoylake. It lies within…

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  Ashton Park, Merseyside · 0.3 km

  Ashton Park is located in West Kirby, Wirral. The park is bisected by the Wirral Way forming an upper and lower park. Facilities at the park include a lake, playground and café with toilets in the lower park and tenni…

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  St Andrew's Church, West Kirby · 0.4 km

  St Andrew's Church is in Meols Drive, West Kirby, Wirral, Merseyside, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Chester, the archdeaconry of Chester, and the deanery of Wirral North. The church…

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  West Kirby Grammar School · 0.6 km

  West Kirby Grammar School is a non-denominational selective state grammar school, founded in 1913, with academy status in West Kirby on the Wirral Peninsula, England. The school admits girls from age 11 to 18, with bo…

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  Hoylake and West Kirby War Memorial · 0.6 km

  The Hoylake and West Kirby War Memorial is a 14.5-metre (48 ft) tall, granite four-sided obelisk which stands on Grange Hill, West Kirby, Merseyside, in North West England. It was designed by British sculptor Charles…

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