Singleton Avenue Birkenhead, Wirral

1 address across 1 postcode (CH42), about 180 m long. USRN 44509581.

  • Sales: 28 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £105,000 across 1 sale.
  • 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 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 Green Lane, about 1.7 km (1 mile) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 520 m (0.3 miles) away, and Duck Pond Lake Park (10 hectares) is about 690 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 10.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.3 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 40 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 1 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is St Catherine's Surgery, about 890 m (0.6 miles) away, with 6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 350 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 55% of households owned their home and 31% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 100 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
20261£105,000£105,000£105,000
20251£157,000£157,000£157,000
20243£143,000£136,000£156,000
20211£130,000£130,000£130,000
20201£117,000£117,000£117,000
20151£78,000£78,000£78,000
20141£88,000£88,000£88,000
20081£60,000£60,000£60,000
20071£113,000£113,000£113,000
20062£112,000£108,000£116,000
20041£92,000£92,000£92,000
20031£50,000£50,000£50,000
Most recent sales (28)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
2 Apr 2026125 CH42 9JWTerraced£105,000
2 May 2025133 CH42 9JWTerraced£157,000
30 Aug 2024149 CH42 9JWTerraced£156,000
3 Apr 2024103 CH42 9JWTerraced£143,000
12 Feb 202499 CH42 9JWTerraced£136,000
22 Mar 2022143 CH42 9JWTerraced£113,500Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
24 Jun 2021129 CH42 9JWTerraced£130,000
17 Dec 2020121 CH42 9JWTerraced£117,000
29 Jul 2015115 CH42 9JWTerraced£78,000
27 Jul 2015145 CH42 9JWTerraced£100,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
24 Oct 2014121 CH42 9JWTerraced£88,000
19 May 2008149 CH42 9JWTerraced£60,000
29 Nov 2007133 CH42 9JWTerraced£113,000
31 Jul 2006129 CH42 9JWTerraced£116,000
26 Jul 2006111 CH42 9JWTerraced£108,000
28 May 2004137 CH42 9JWTerraced£92,000
14 Apr 2003129 CH42 9JWTerraced£50,000
6 Dec 2002105 CH42 9JWTerraced£64,000
18 Oct 2002147 CH42 9JWTerraced£49,000
14 Jun 2000133 CH42 9JWTerraced£32,000
30 Nov 1999139 CH42 9JWTerraced£38,250
5 Nov 1999123 CH42 9JWTerraced£36,950
22 May 1998105 CH42 9JWTerraced£35,000
3 Apr 1998103 CH42 9JWTerraced£27,000
27 Mar 1998111 CH42 9JWTerraced£29,000
24 Oct 1997119 CH42 9JWTerraced£38,000
25 Jul 1997127 CH42 9JWTerraced£26,750
27 Sep 1996125 CH42 9JWTerraced£36,995

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 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 (64% of about 720 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: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: 12 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 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 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 address is about 40 m above sea level.

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 9JW100%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 stationsGreen Lane 375,000 journeys in 2024–251.7 km (1 mile)
Birkenhead Central 644,000 journeys in 2024–251.8 km (1.1 miles)
Rock Ferry 686,000 journeys in 2024–251.8 km (1.1 miles)
Bus stops22 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 57 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Highpark Road Prenton30 m
Bus or coach stationBirkenhead Bus Station2 km (1.2 miles)
Ferry terminalWoodside Birkenhead Ferry Terminal2.8 km (1.8 miles)
Car parksBridge Street Car Park2.7 km (1.7 miles)
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Roam Charging Station950 m (0.6 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLiverpool John Lennon Airport LPL13.3 km (8.3 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 surgeries6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest St Catherine's Surgery890 m (0.6 miles)
Pharmacies10 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Woodchurch Road Pharmacy550 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Prenton Road West (Dental Surgery)280 m
HospitalSt. Catherines Hospital890 m (0.6 miles)
Police stationPyramids Town Centre Police Station1.6 km (1 mile)
Cash machines4 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Payzone320 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 garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.5 ha520 m (0.3 miles)
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Duck Pond Lake Park 10 ha690 m (0.4 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 430 m²430 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3.8 ha380 m
Allotments3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Fairview Allotment Gardens 6,650 m²270 m

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

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Birkenhead Park, a registered park or garden (Grade I), 2.1 km (1.3 miles) north. 24 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Birkenhead ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade I2.1 km (1.3 miles) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Marsh Hey CovertWood1.8 km (1.1 miles) south
Prenton DellValley1.8 km (1.1 miles) south-west
Storeton HillHill2.1 km (1.3 miles) south
Outer BasinLake or reservoir2.2 km (1.4 miles) north-east
Tranmere BeachBeach2.4 km (1.5 miles) east
Cow Hey CovertWood2.4 km (1.5 miles) south-west

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)10.24010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.3205
Particles (PM10)9.94015

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
60 to 6410
Under 5501

1 of the street's 1 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), 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
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Birkenhead Roman CatholicPrimary4–11150 m Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Devonshire Park Primary SchoolPrimary3–11270 m No published inspection
Woodchurch Road AcademyPrimary3–11470 m (0.3 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
Oxton St Saviour's CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–11820 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Mersey Park Primary SchoolPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
Birkenhead Christ Church CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Prenton High School for GirlsSecondary11–161.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Bedford Drive Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Well Lane Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Inadequate (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Werburgh's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary2–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Prenton Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Report card (Feb 2026): 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: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met
Woodlands Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.4 km (0.9 miles) 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 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
Sylvan House Residential Care Home CH42 9LDHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises200 m5 Very good28 Apr 2026
Ruhi Balti CH42 9PDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen200 m5 Very good30 Oct 2025
Firbobs@StJoseph's CH43 5UTHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises230 m4 Good12 Feb 2020
The corner store CH42 9PDRetailers - other230 m3 Generally satisfactory19 Jun 2026
Yu Hing CH42 9PLTakeaway/sandwich shop240 m5 Very good4 Nov 2025
Vicky's Cafe CH42 9PLRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen240 m4 Good10 Sep 2025
SUPA CH42 9PHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen250 m2 Improvement necessary22 Jul 2026
The Sweetest Thing CH42 9LERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen270 m5 Very good20 Jan 2026
Zamanjis CH42 9PQRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen300 m4 Good15 Jan 2026
Devonshire Park Primary School CH42 9JXSchool/college/university300 m5 Very good4 Jun 2026
Mersey Clipper CH42 9PYPub/bar/nightclub300 m5 Very good3 Sep 2025
Georgio's CH42 9JFTakeaway/sandwich shop310 m5 Very good4 Feb 2025
Eastern Delight CH42 9JGTakeaway/sandwich shop310 m5 Very good29 Nov 2024
Borough Road Discount Store CH42 9JFRetailers - other310 mExempt
Captain Tony's Cafe CH42 9JGRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen310 m4 Good24 Jul 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.

100 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences42
Criminal damage and arson16
Public order11
Vehicle crime11
Anti-social behaviour8
Other theft5
Burglary3
Drugs3
Other crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Moss Grove (13); On or near Moss Lane (12); On or near Downing Close (8); On or near Rosebery Grove (8); On or near Mellor Road (8).

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: 345 residents in 142 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 age3840
Children under 1524%17%
Aged 65 and over14%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)55%61%
Owned outright28%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented10%17%
Private rented35%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work59%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)6%6%
Retired (of adults)18%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)7%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)17%32%
Travel to work by car or van53%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus14%8%
On foot or by bicycle12%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)79%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)31%34%
No qualifications15%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 2 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 9JW: 1 address of 29 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Parkhill Road · Temple Road · Highpark Road · Edenpark Road · Moss Grove · Chalkley Close · Woodchurch Road · The Grove · Prenton Park Road · Woodchurch Road · Woodchurch Road · Downing Close

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.