CH25 9RF Wirral

Live postcode, introduced February 2022. Ward: Birkenhead and Tranmere. Region: North West.

Streets

No addresses are linked to this postcode in the ONS UPRN Directory.

Council tax

What each band costs in Wirral in 2026-27: Band D £2,501 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

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£1,667£1,945£2,223£2,501£3,056£3,612£4,168£5,001

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this postcode: most are in band A (99% of about 690 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this postcode; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: yes, Hamilton Square Conservation Area (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings within 100 m of this postcode: 1.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Listed buildings

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1.0 km

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted within 100 m of this postcode. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Flood risk

The Environment Agency's long-term flood risk figures have not been loaded for this postcode yet.

Flood zone for planning: the postcode centre is in flood zone 3. Zone 3 is a 1% (1 in 100) or greater annual chance of flooding from rivers, or 0.5% from the sea, ignoring defences.

Sources: Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

Broadband

No Ofcom figures for this postcode.

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 31 October 2026; Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage 2024–25 (which stations are on the National Rail network, and their journeys: entries and exits in the year to March); OurAirports (public domain, kept by volunteers); car parks and charging points from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and others: not an official register, so some will be missing, private or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the postcode's centre, not routes, and say nothing about how often anything runs. Stations opened since the end of ORR's year appear when ORR publishes the next one, each December; heritage railways are left out.

NearestDistance
Railway stationsBirkenhead Hamilton Square 1.7 million journeys in 2024–25280 m
Conway Park 630,000 journeys in 2024–25820 m
Birkenhead Central 644,000 journeys in 2024–251.1 km
Bus stops10 stops within 400 m, 28 within 800 m; nearest Shore Road Woodside180 m
Bus or coach stationWoodside Interchange220 m
Ferry terminalWoodside Birkenhead Ferry Terminal260 m
Car parks1 within 800 m; nearest Bridge Street Car Park260 m
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km; nearest Be.EV Charging Station1.3 km
Airport with scheduled flightsLiverpool John Lennon Airport LPL12.8 km

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the postcode's centre. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries4 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Hamilton Med Ctr630 m
Pharmacies7 pharmacies within 1.6 km; nearest Rowlands Pharmacy640 m
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Hamilton Square Dental Practice520 m
HospitalSt. Catherines Hospital2.1 km
Police stationBirkenhead Police Station400 m
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m; nearest Birkenhead Station NatWest340 m

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the postcode's centre to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or garden1 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 1.5 ha400 m
Play area1 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 550 m²500 m
Playing fieldUnnamed 3.2 ha1.4 km
AllotmentsUnnamed 3,690 m²2.2 km

Within 800 m: 1 park or garden, 1.5 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Numbers 1 to 18 (Consecutive) Including Railings to Front, a listed building (Grade I), 370 m south-west. 64 listed buildings are within 1.0 km, 6 of them Grade I and 6 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the postcode's centre
Numbers 1 to 18 (Consecutive) Including Railings to FrontListed building, Grade I370 m south-west
Numbers 58 to 63 (Consecutive) With Railings to Front, Flanking Wall and Gate Piers to North-EastListed building, Grade I400 m south-west
Numbers 1 to 6 (Consecutive) With Area Railings AttachedListed building, Grade II*420 m south
Town HallListed building, Grade II*450 m south
Birkenhead PrioryScheduled monument820 m south
Birkenhead ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade I2.0 km west
St James's Gardens (Formerly St James's Cemetery)Registered park or garden, Grade I2.6 km east
Natural landmarks within 5.0 km
NameWhat it isFrom the postcode's centre
Morpeth DockLake or reservoir400 m north-west
Egerton DockLake or reservoir600 m west
South Ferry BasinTidal water1.8 km south-east
Taylor's WoodWood3.9 km west
Bidston HillHill4.1 km west
Prenton DellValley4.8 km south-west

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10.0 km, battlefields within 5.0 km, registered parks and gardens within 3.0 km, scheduled monuments within 2.0 km, and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1.0 km. Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the postcode's centre. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)13.44010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.4205
Particles (PM10)10.64015

All three are within the UK legal limits; nitrogen dioxide and PM2.5 are above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road and rail noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic on the roads and railways, not measurements; they leave out aircraft, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic and 54 dB for railways.

No addresses here are in the mapped area.

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this postcode is in: 334 residents in 217 households. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.

Who lives here

Around this postcodeEngland
Median age3940
Children under 158%17%
Aged 65 and over8%18%

Homes

Around this postcodeEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)11%61%
Owned outright6%33%
Shared ownership7%1%
Social rented49%17%
Private rented34%21%

Work and commuting

Around this postcodeEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work54%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)10%6%
Retired (of adults)9%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)16%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)25%32%
Travel to work by car or van31%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram13%4%
By any public transport, including bus22%8%
On foot or by bicycle18%10%
Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work)78%65%
Work 30 km or more away1%8%

Education and languages

Around this postcodeEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)24%34%
No qualifications19%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification8%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)94%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this postcode is in decile 1 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.