Eldon Road Birkenhead, Wirral

25 addresses across 2 postcodes (CH42), about 130 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 44501155.

  • Sales: 39 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £112,000 across 3 sales.
  • Energy: 17 homes have an energy certificate (C: 4, D: 12, E: 1).
  • Flood: 2 addresses on its postcodes are in areas 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 A; 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 Rock Ferry, about 270 m away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Victoria Park, is about 300 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 9.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 17 to 20 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 10 of its 25 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Gladstone Med Ctr, about 270 m away, with 4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 280 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 32% of households owned their home and 12% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 256 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
20253£112,000£108,000£135,000
20221£93,000£93,000£93,000
20192£81,000£72,000£90,000
20181£40,000£40,000£40,000
20171£83,000£83,000£83,000
20162£64,150£41,300£87,000
20152£52,475£35,000£69,950
20142£62,750£47,500£78,000
20131£53,000£53,000£53,000
20082£70,500£56,000£85,000
20071£149,000£149,000£149,000
20062£76,750£68,000£85,500
Most recent sales (39)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
12 Dec 202510 CH42 3XRTerraced£112,000
28 Nov 202521 CH42 3XRTerraced£108,000
3 Oct 20257 CH42 3XRTerraced£135,000
8 May 20256 CH42 3XRTerraced£70,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
5 Feb 20243 CH42 3XRTerraced£65,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
9 Aug 202314 CH42 3XRTerraced£51,750Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
21 Jan 202210 CH42 3XRTerraced£93,000
4 Oct 20194 CH42 3XRTerraced£57,500Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
12 Jul 201910 CH42 3XRTerraced£72,000
20 Jun 201913 CH42 3XRTerraced£61,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
15 Jan 201929 CH42 3XRSemi-detached£90,000
11 Oct 20188 CH42 3XRTerraced£40,000
6 Jan 20177 CH42 3XRTerraced£83,000
28 Jun 201612 CH42 3XRTerraced£41,300
29 Jan 20161 CH42 3XRTerraced£87,000
6 Nov 201521 CH42 3XRTerraced£69,950
12 Oct 20157 CH42 3XRTerraced£47,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
3 Sep 20151 CH42 3XRTerraced£45,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
1 May 201521 CH42 3XRTerraced£35,000
31 Oct 201429 CH42 3XRSemi-detached£78,000
24 Jan 201413 CH42 3XRTerraced£47,500
17 May 20137 CH42 3XRTerraced£53,000
20 Aug 20085 CH42 3XRTerraced£85,000
20 Aug 20085 CH42 3XRTerraced£56,000
23 Feb 200716 CH42 3XRTerraced£149,000
22 Sep 20061 CH42 3XRTerraced£68,000
25 Apr 200616 CH42 3XRTerraced£85,500
24 Nov 200523 CH42 3XRTerraced£50,000
3 Aug 200510 CH42 3XRTerraced£62,500
25 Jul 200329 CH42 3XRSemi-detached£64,950
21 Aug 200223 CH42 3XRTerraced£25,000
28 Jun 20026 CH42 3XRTerraced£22,000
14 Feb 200219 CH42 3XRTerraced£19,500
10 May 200112 CH42 3XRTerraced£15,000
29 Mar 20015 CH42 3XRTerraced£15,500
20 Oct 200029 CH42 3XRSemi-detached£31,000
17 Jul 199815 CH42 3XRTerraced£15,250
18 Jul 19977 CH42 3XRTerraced£25,000
22 Feb 199512 CH42 3XRTerraced£14,500

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 October 2008 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

17 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 78 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (14); House, end-terrace (2); House, semi-detached (1). Built: 1900-1929 (13); before 1900 (3); 1950-1966 (1). Tenure at assessment: rented (private) (9); owner-occupied (5); rented (social) (1).

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 A (97% of about 890 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 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: 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 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

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 1 address is in areas at high risk, 1 at medium risk and 4 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

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.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
CH42 3XRnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
CH42 3XUnot in 2 or 3 1 / 1 / 4 unlikely

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 25 addresses are between 17 m and 20 m above sea level (19 m on average).

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
CH42 3XR100%100%100%0%
CH42 3XU100%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 stationsRock Ferry 686,000 journeys in 2024–25270 m
Green Lane 375,000 journeys in 2024–251.1 km (0.7 miles)
Birkenhead Central 644,000 journeys in 2024–251.7 km (1.1 miles)
Bus stops16 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 56 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Old Chester Road Rock Ferry110 m
Bus or coach stationBirkenhead Bus Station2.1 km (1.3 miles)
Ferry terminalWoodside Birkenhead Ferry Terminal2.4 km (1.5 miles)
Car parksBridge Street Car Park2.4 km (1.5 miles)
EV charging pointsRoam Charging Station1.9 km (1.2 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLiverpool John Lennon Airport LPL11.8 km (7.3 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 surgeries4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Gladstone Med Ctr270 m
Pharmacies9 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Old Chester Pharmacy160 m
NHS dentists6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Rock Ferry Dental Practice590 m (0.4 miles)
HospitalSt. Catherines Hospital1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Police stationPyramids Town Centre Police Station1.9 km (1.2 miles)
Cash machines5 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Payzone70 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 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 garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Victoria Park 11 ha300 m
Play area5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,340 m²330 m
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.6 ha340 m
Allotments3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Molyneux Allotments 5,340 m²230 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 20 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Birkenhead Priory, a scheduled monument, 1.8 km (1.1 miles) north. 26 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Birkenhead PrioryScheduled monument1.8 km (1.1 miles) north
The Dell, the Diamond and the Causeway, Port SunlightRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.6 km (1.6 miles) south-east
Birkenhead ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade I3 km (1.8 miles) north-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Tranmere BeachBeach1 km (0.6 miles) north-east
Outer BasinLake or reservoir1.5 km (0.9 miles) north
Storeton HillHill2.1 km (1.3 miles) south-west
Marsh Hey CovertWood2.2 km (1.4 miles) south-west
Prenton DellValley3 km (1.9 miles) west
Devil's BankWetland4.3 km (2.7 miles) east

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)9.94010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.3205
Particles (PM10)9.74015

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 59100
Under 551525

10 of the street's 25 addresses are 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
Rock Ferry Primary SchoolPrimary3–11330 m No published inspection
Well Lane Primary SchoolPrimary3–11360 m Inadequate (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Bedford Drive Primary SchoolPrimary3–11730 m (0.5 miles) Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Anne's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary2–11780 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Mersey Park Primary SchoolPrimary3–11840 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Prenton High School for GirlsSecondary11–16860 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Devonshire Park Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
St John's Catholic Junior School Roman CatholicPrimary7–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St John's Catholic Infant School Roman CatholicPrimary3–71.5 km (0.9 miles) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Woodchurch Road AcademyPrimary3–111.6 km (1 mile) 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 John Plessington Catholic College Roman CatholicSecondary11–181.6 km (1 mile) Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Grove Street Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.6 km (1 mile) Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)

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
KP STORES CH42 3XERetailers - other70 m1 Major improvement necessary19 Jun 2026
Zhen’s House CH42 3XETakeaway/sandwich shop70 m3 Generally satisfactory2 Nov 2025
Lidl CH42 3UZRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets170 m5 Very good19 Aug 2026
Old Chester Pharmacy CH42 3XDRetailers - other180 mExempt
Albany Bowling Club CH42 3XWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen200 m4 Good28 Mar 2023
TLP Convenience CH42 2AWRetailers - other230 m1 Major improvement necessary11 Jun 2026
SMOKIE MOS CH42 3TFTakeaway/sandwich shop230 m4 Good24 Aug 2026
Star noodles CH42 3TDTakeaway/sandwich shop240 m3 Generally satisfactory28 Aug 2025
LUIGIS PIZZA CH42 2ATTakeaway/sandwich shop240 m5 Very good13 Feb 2026
YUM CH42 3TFRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen240 m4 Good10 Nov 2025
The Lord Napier CH42 3UZPub/bar/nightclub260 m3 Generally satisfactory18 Sep 2025
Essentials CH42 4QHRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets260 m5 Very good24 May 2023
Rumbling Tums CH42 3TDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen270 m5 Very good22 Sep 2026
The Slipper Baths Cafe, Byrne Avenue Baths CH42 4PQRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen270 m5 Very good17 Jul 2025
Swettenham Chemists CH42 3TDRetailers - other290 mExempt

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.

256 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences100
Criminal damage and arson31
Public order29
Anti-social behaviour21
Shoplifting19
Drugs17
Other theft11
Vehicle crime10
Possession of weapons8
Other crime4
Burglary3
Robbery1
Bicycle theft1
Theft from the person1

Most of these are attached to: On or near B5149 (44); On or near Mulberry Close (34); On or near Albany Close (22); On or near Parking Area (20); On or near Palmerston Street (17).

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: 281 residents in 149 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 age3940
Children under 1518%17%
Aged 65 and over18%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)32%61%
Owned outright17%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented26%17%
Private rented42%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work42%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)21%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)13%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)15%32%
Travel to work by car or van48%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram3%4%
By any public transport, including bus15%8%
On foot or by bicycle18%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)83%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away3%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)12%34%
No qualifications27%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)91%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all3%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street 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.

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.

  • CH42 3XR: 24 addresses of 25 in the postcode
  • CH42 3XU: 1 address of 26 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Mulberry Road · St Paul's Close · Rockville Street · Southdale Road · St Paul's Villas · Meadow Lane · Aldersgate · Fieldside Road · Bulwer Street · Wycliffe Street · Grove Road · Palmerston Street

All the streets in CH42 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.