Exchange Flags Liverpool

303 addresses across 3 postcodes (L2), about 50 m long. USRN 23601641.

  • 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 C; Band D in Liverpool costs £2,674 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Moorfields, about 230 m away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Chavasse Park, is about 540 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 18.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.0 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 13 to 15 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 312 of its 315 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Brownlow At Marybone, about 510 m (0.3 miles) away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 430 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 13% of households owned their home and 56% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 991 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
Most recent sales (4)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
31 Jul 2019HORTON HOUSE L2 3YLOther£68,000,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
21 May 2019UNIT 2, WALKER HOUSE L2 3YLOther£25,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
21 Dec 2016HORTON HOUSE L2 3YLOther£24,000,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
21 Dec 2016HORTON HOUSE L2 3YLOther£18,000,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).

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

No certificates found for addresses on this street.

Council tax

What each band costs in Liverpool in 2026-27: Band D £2,674 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,782£2,079£2,377£2,674£3,268£3,862£4,456£5,347

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (28% of about 1,240 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: yes, Castle Street, Castle Street. Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 5.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): The Liverpool (Anfield, Central, Greenbank, Kensington and Fairfield, Picton, Princess Park, Riverside, Tuebrook and Stoneycroft and Wavertree wards and parts of Kirkdale and Church wards) (Article 4(1)) Direction 2020.
  • 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 31 October 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 31 October 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 330 addresses are between 13 m and 15 m above sea level (15 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
L2 2QP100%100%100%0%
L2 3PF100%100%100%0%
L2 3YL100%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 stationsMoorfields 6.6 million journeys in 2024–25230 m
Liverpool James Street 3.1 million journeys in 2024–25300 m
Liverpool Central 15 million journeys in 2024–25910 m (0.6 miles)
Bus stops26 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 69 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Chapel Street Liverpool70 m
Bus or coach stationQueen Square Bus Station Liverpool550 m (0.3 miles)
Ferry terminalGerry Marsden Ferry Terminal Liverpool460 m (0.3 miles)
Car parks12 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest National Car Parks120 m
EV charging points5 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest bp Pulse290 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLiverpool John Lennon Airport LPL12.4 km (7.7 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 surgeries3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Brownlow At Marybone510 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies8 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boots540 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists9 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Ollie & Darsh120 m
HospitalRoyal Liverpool Dental Hospital1.7 km (1 mile)
Police stationMerseyside Police690 m (0.4 miles)
Cash machines8 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Tesco Bank ATM260 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 Chavasse Park 1.7 ha540 m (0.3 miles)
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 390 m²670 m (0.4 miles)
Playing fieldUnnamed 3.0 ha1.7 km (1.1 miles)
AllotmentsEverton Community Garden 890 m²1.6 km (1 mile)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 3.1 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Nelson Monument, a listed building (Grade II*), 20 m. 251 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 13 of them Grade I and 31 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Nelson MonumentListed building, Grade II*20 m
Town HallListed building, Grade I40 m
Martins Bank BuildingListed building, Grade II*50 m south-west
National Westminster BankListed building, Grade II*130 m south-east
St James's Gardens (Formerly St James's Cemetery)Registered park or garden, Grade I1.7 km (1.1 miles) south-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Wapping BasinLake or reservoir1 km (0.6 miles) south
Trafalgar DockLake or reservoir1.6 km (1 mile) north-west
Stanley DockLake or reservoir1.6 km (1 mile) north
Collingwood DockLake or reservoir1.7 km (1.1 miles) north
South Ferry BasinTidal water1.9 km (1.2 miles) south
Priory WoodWood4.5 km (2.8 miles) south-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)18.24010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.0205
Particles (PM10)11.74015

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, 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
65 to 692660
60 to 6430
55 to 59430
Under 553315

312 of the street's 315 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 Liverpool: see them on the Liverpool page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 3 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
Holy Cross Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–11750 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
St Vincent de Paul Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Pleasant Street Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.2 km (0.8 miles) Good (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
The City of Liverpool College16 plus16–991.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
St Nicholas Catholic Academy Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No overall grade (Jan 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
The Trinity Catholic Academy Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No overall grade (Mar 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
LIPA SchoolAll-through4–161.5 km (0.9 miles) No overall grade (Jun 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Inadequate; Behaviour and attitudes: Inadequate; Personal development: Inadequate; Leadership and management: Inadequate
LIPA Sixth Form College16 plus14–191.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection
Faith Primary Academy Church of England/Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.7 km (1 mile) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Liverpool Life Sciences UTCSecondary14–191.7 km (1 mile) No published inspection
The Studio School LiverpoolSecondary14–191.7 km (1 mile) No published inspection
University of Liverpool Mathematics School16 plus16–191.8 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 3 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
Fazenda Rodizio Bar & Grill L2 3YLRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen40 m5 Very good5 Jun 2024
Sedulo L2 3YLOther catering premises40 m5 Very good8 Oct 2026
Black Cat Club Liverpool L2 3YLRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen40 mAwaiting inspection
Dishoom Permit Room L2 2PPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen60 mAwaiting inspection
Mowgli Street Food L2 0RDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen80 m5 Very good14 Dec 2022
So Salsa L2 0NARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen80 m5 Very good15 May 2023
Black Barrel L2 0NAPub/bar/nightclub90 m4 Good22 Apr 2021
Exchange East News L2 3PQRetailers - other90 m5 Very good10 Sep 2026
Costa Coffee L2 2NZRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen90 m5 Very good4 Jan 2021
Out to Lunch L3 9AGTakeaway/sandwich shop90 m5 Very good4 Jul 2023
Reds Pub/bar/nightclub90 mAwaiting inspection
J W News L3 9AGRetailers - other90 m1 Major improvement necessary27 Oct 2022
Subway L2 3PQTakeaway/sandwich shop90 m4 Good14 Feb 2023
Lucy in the Sky L2 3PQRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen90 m4 Good28 Jun 2023
8 Water St Mediterranean Grill Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen90 m2 Improvement necessary18 Jun 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.

991 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences291
Drugs205
Anti-social behaviour125
Vehicle crime83
Public order79
Other theft64
Criminal damage and arson48
Burglary34
Bicycle theft15
Other crime12
Robbery11
Shoplifting9
Possession of weapons8
Theft from the person7

Most of these are attached to: On or near Castle Hill (129); On or near Fazakerley Street (85); On or near Parking Area (75); On or near Old Ropery (65); On or near Water Street (56).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 427 residents in 224 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 age3140
Children under 153%17%
Aged 65 and over3%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)13%61%
Owned outright7%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented3%17%
Private rented84%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work64%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)9%6%
Retired (of adults)4%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)5%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)42%32%
Travel to work by car or van16%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram8%4%
By any public transport, including bus14%8%
On foot or by bicycle27%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)77%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away6%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)56%34%
No qualifications12%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification3%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)73%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all5%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 4 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

  • Food hygiene ratings Wall of Fame (pub/bar/nightclub, L2 6QE) is no longer listed; it was rated 5 Very good found 31 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Casa Italia (restaurant/cafe/canteen, L1 6AL) is no longer listed; it was rated 5 Very good found 31 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Remeniss (pub/bar/nightclub, L2 6PY) is no longer listed; it was rated 4 Good found 31 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Masquerade Bar (pub/bar/nightclub, L1 6BU) is no longer listed; it was rated 5 Very good found 31 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings One Fine Day & Little Leaf (restaurant/cafe/canteen, L3 9LQ) re-inspected, still 5 Very good (rated 13 October 2026) found 31 October 2026

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.

  • L2 3PF: 260 addresses of 264 in the postcode
  • L2 3YL: 40 addresses of 41 in the postcode
  • L2 2QP: 3 addresses of 84 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Exchange Street West · High Street · Exchange Passage West · Exchange Street East · Rumford Street · Chapel Street · Covent Garden · Hackins Hey · Queen Avenue · Lower Castle Street · George Street · Fenwick Street

All the streets in L2 and across Liverpool.

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.