Arnside Road Birkenhead, Wirral

16 addresses across 2 postcodes (CH43), about 140 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 44500116.

  • Sales: 25 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £577,500 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 9 homes have an energy certificate (C: 1, D: 5, E: 2, F: 1).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band B; Band D in Wirral costs £2,501 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Birkenhead Park, about 1.7 km (1.1 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 600 m (0.4 miles) away, and Duck Pond Lake Park (10 hectares) is about 670 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.1 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 50 to 55 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 16 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Devaney Med Ctr, about 850 m (0.5 miles) away, with 6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 300 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 68% of households owned their home and 46% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 74 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.

Sales on this street

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, sales registered up to 28 August 2026, loaded 28 October 2026. Sales reach the register two weeks to two months after completion, so the last two months are incomplete. Matched by postcode and street name.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20252£577,500£570,000£585,000
20211£299,950£299,950£299,950
20191£210,000£210,000£210,000
20181£370,000£370,000£370,000
20171£137,500£137,500£137,500
20152£184,975£95,000£274,950
20142£365,000£355,000£375,000
20121£250,000£250,000£250,000
20082£425,000£425,000£425,000
20072£122,500£107,500£137,500
20041£28,850£28,850£28,850
20031£154,950£154,950£154,950
Most recent sales (25)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
7 May 20253 CH43 2JUSemi-detached£570,000
17 Mar 20256 CH43 2JUSemi-detached£585,000
30 Apr 20212A CH43 2JUDetached£299,950
29 Apr 20192A CH43 2JUDetached£210,000
20 Jul 201812 CH43 2JUSemi-detached£370,000
31 Aug 201713 CH43 2JUFlat or maisonette£137,500Leasehold.
1 Oct 20153 CH43 2JUSemi-detached£274,950
10 Aug 201513 CH43 2JUFlat or maisonette£95,000Leasehold.
22 Aug 20147 CH43 2JUSemi-detached£375,000
28 Mar 20141 CH43 2JUSemi-detached£355,000
24 Aug 20121 CH43 2JUSemi-detached£250,000
16 May 200811 CH43 2JUFlat or maisonette£425,000
16 May 200811A CH43 2JUFlat or maisonette£425,000
3 Aug 200713A CH43 2JUFlat or maisonette£137,500Leasehold.
14 Jun 200713 CH43 2JUFlat or maisonette£107,500New build. Leasehold.
16 Feb 20048 CH43 2JUSemi-detached£28,850
5 Jun 20032A CH43 2JUDetached£154,950
13 May 20025 CH43 2JUSemi-detached£195,000
8 Feb 200211B CH43 2JUFlat or maisonette£49,949Leasehold.
30 Nov 199910 CH43 2JUSemi-detached£145,000
30 Jul 19998 CH43 2JUSemi-detached£139,950
9 Sep 19987 CH43 2JUSemi-detached£127,000
17 Aug 19989 CH43 2JUSemi-detached£132,000
28 Feb 19978 CH43 2JUSemi-detached£105,000
2 Aug 19959 CH43 2JUSemi-detached£74,000

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from June 2012 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

9 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 188 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (6); Flat (2); House, detached (1). Built: before 1900 (5); 1900-1929 (3); 1967-1975 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (6); rented (private) (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (5 addresses)

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.

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

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (34% of about 950 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this street; 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: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: 3 protected trees on or by this street.
  • Green belt: no.

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)

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 on or by this street. 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.

Roadworks

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 30 September 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 30 September 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

No address in this street's postcodes is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. The rest are in areas at very low risk: less than a 0.1% (1 in 1,000) chance a year.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

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.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Some features are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH); the postcode data is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, © Royal Mail Group Limited.

Height above sea level

The street's 16 addresses are between 50 m and 55 m above sea level (52 m on average); the ground rises about 6 m from the lowest to the highest.

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026. Percentages are of premises in each postcode that can get the service, not take-up or speed achieved.

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
CH43 2JQ100%100%100%0%
CH43 2JU100%100%100%0%

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 middle of the street, 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 Park 670,000 journeys in 2024–251.7 km (1.1 miles)
Birkenhead Central 644,000 journeys in 2024–252 km (1.2 miles)
Conway Park 630,000 journeys in 2024–252.1 km (1.3 miles)
Bus stops11 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 43 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Arnside Road Oxton70 m
Bus or coach stationBirkenhead Bus Station2 km (1.2 miles)
Ferry terminalWoodside Birkenhead Ferry Terminal2.9 km (1.8 miles)
Car parksBridge Street Car Park2.7 km (1.7 miles)
EV charging points3 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Roam Charging Station880 m (0.5 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLiverpool John Lennon Airport LPL14.4 km (8.9 miles)

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 middle of the street. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Devaney Med Ctr850 m (0.5 miles)
Pharmacies9 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Allied Pharmacies Balls Road850 m (0.5 miles)
NHS dentists9 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery730 m (0.5 miles)
HospitalSt. Catherines Hospital1.6 km (1 mile)
Police stationPyramids Town Centre Police Station1.5 km (1 mile)
Cash machinesBest One Local850 m (0.5 miles)

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 middle of the street 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 garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.5 ha600 m (0.4 miles)
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Duck Pond Lake Park 10 ha670 m (0.4 miles)
Play areaUnnamed 640 m²1 km (0.6 miles)
Playing field4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest LC McAllester Memorial Field 5.7 ha310 m
AllotmentsFairview Allotment Gardens 6,650 m²940 m (0.6 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 13 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St Saviour, a listed building (Grade II*), 160 m south-west. 65 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of St SaviourListed building, Grade II*160 m south-west
Birkenhead ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade I1.3 km (0.8 miles) north-east
Flaybrick Memorial GardensRegistered park or garden, Grade II*1.9 km (1.2 miles) north-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Taylor's WoodWood2 km (1.2 miles) north-west
Bidston HillHill2.1 km (1.3 miles) north-west
Silver Birch WoodWood2.2 km (1.3 miles) north-west
Prenton DellValley2.2 km (1.4 miles) south
Gillbrook BasinLake or reservoir2.2 km (1.4 miles) north
WirralHeadland3.1 km (1.9 miles) south

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). 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 middle of the street. 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)9.04010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.1205
Particles (PM10)9.54015

All three are within the UK legal limits; PM2.5 is 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, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: 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, not measurements; they leave out smaller airports and airfields, 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, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
55 to 5910
Under 551516

1 of the street's 16 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

Climate, daylight and earthquakes

Monthly temperatures and rainfall, sunrise and sunset through the year, and earthquakes recorded nearby since 1970 are much the same across the area, so they are worked out once for Wirral: see them on the Wirral page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 1 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
Birkenhead High School AcademyAll-through3–19510 m (0.3 miles) Good (Apr 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Oxton St Saviour's CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–11720 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
St Anselm's College Roman CatholicSecondary11–18740 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Birkenhead Park SchoolSecondary11–16940 m (0.6 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Woodchurch Road AcademyPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) Report card (Nov 2025): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Birkenhead Roman CatholicPrimary4–111 km (0.6 miles) Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Birkenhead Christ Church CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Townfield Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.2 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
St Werburgh's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary2–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Birkenhead Sixth Form College16 plus16–191.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Devonshire Park Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Woodlands Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.6 km (1 mile) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Needs attention; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 1 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Gerald House CH43 2JXHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises50 m5 Very good15 Jan 2026
Cosy Corner Day Nursery CH43 2JNHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises110 m5 Very good29 Jul 2026
Hursts Bakery CH43 2JERetailers - other150 m4 Good28 Jan 2026
Bamboo Kitchen CH43 2JETakeaway/sandwich shop160 m2 Improvement necessary30 Oct 2025
Oxton Manor CH43 1XBHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises190 m5 Very good14 Nov 2024
Royal Air Force Association (RAFA) CH43 1UUPub/bar/nightclub210 m5 Very good7 Nov 2018
Acorn House Residential Home CH43 1XEHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises250 m5 Very good2 Mar 2026
Caernarvon Castle CH43 2JZPub/bar/nightclub260 m5 Very good7 May 2025
Trinity with Palm Grove Church CH43 1UZOther catering premises320 m1 Major improvement necessary1 Jul 2026
Partou Oxton Day Nursery & Preschool CH43 1UXHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises340 m5 Very good30 Sep 2025
Oxton Conservative Club CH43 5SRPub/bar/nightclub390 m5 Very good5 Nov 2018
Twentysixteen coffee and kitchen CH43 5SRRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen440 m (0.3 miles)4 Good22 Sep 2026
Territorial Army Centre CH43 9TFOther catering premises450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good9 Nov 2024
Birkenhead Lawn Tennis Club CH43 1TZRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good25 Jan 2023
Forget Me Not CH43 5SRRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good26 Jan 2026

Crime within 250 m

Source: data.police.uk street-level crime, September 2025 to August 2026. Police forces move every crime to the nearest of about 760,000 anonymised map points before publishing, so these are crimes near this street, not on it, and a busy point can collect crimes from a wider area. Counts are of records, not convictions.

74 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences31
Vehicle crime8
Criminal damage and arson7
Drugs6
Other theft5
Anti-social behaviour5
Burglary4
Public order3
Other crime2
Robbery1
Possession of weapons1
Bicycle theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Arnside Road (22); On or near Chetwynd Road (17); On or near Duncote Close (11); On or near Alton Road (7); On or near Kent Street (7).

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 street's postcodes are in: 295 residents in 151 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 streetEngland
Median age5640
Children under 1511%17%
Aged 65 and over35%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)68%61%
Owned outright38%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented1%17%
Private rented29%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work50%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)6%6%
Retired (of adults)36%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)4%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)35%32%
Travel to work by car or van50%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus3%8%
On foot or by bicycle10%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)74%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away9%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)46%34%
No qualifications13%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 8 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.

What has changed

Nothing new since the change feed started on 30 October 2026. New sales and energy certificates, and hygiene ratings, school inspections and flood figures nearby, will be listed here as the sources update.

Everything that has changed on and near this street

Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers September 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

Nearby streets

Gerald Road · Silverdale Road · Alton Road · Wellington Road · Village Road · Chetwynd Road · Duncote Close · Lorne Road · Rathmore Drive · Willow Lea · Kent Street · Kylemore Road

All the streets in CH43 and across Wirral.

What this page cannot tell you

  • Whether a particular house is at risk of flooding, subsiding or anything else: the flood map is a model of areas and there is no property-level data here.
  • What a home is worth now: sales are historic prices for the homes that happened to sell.
  • How safe the street is: crime points are moved to anonymised locations and many crimes are never reported.
  • Whether you would get a place at a school: distances are straight lines, not catchments.
  • Who lives on the street now: census figures describe the small areas around it in March 2021, during a lockdown.
  • How long a journey takes or how often anything runs: transport distances are straight lines to the nearest stops.
  • Whether a GP practice is taking new patients, or a dentist new NHS patients.
  • How loud a home is inside, or noise from industry, neighbours or smaller airfields: noise figures are models of road, rail and air traffic outside.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.