CH60 postcode district: Heswall and around, Wirral

CH60 is a postcode district in England, with 461 postcodes in use in 10 sectors. It has postcodes in Heswall. Its council is Wirral.

Postcodes in use: 461
Sectors: 10
Council: Wirral
Places: Heswall

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. See all our data sources

Every postcode in CH60, and which are new since 2020

New since 2020: 3
In use before 2020: 458

Of the 461 postcodes in CH60 that ONS places, 3 are new since 2020 and 458 were in use before 2020.

Each mark is a postcode's centre point as ONS gives it, not a building. Press one to see its postcode and open its page. New since 2020 means it came into use in January 2020 or later. No boundary is drawn. Where marks overlap, the one first in the key is drawn; the counts include every postcode.

The middle of its postcodes: latitude 53.3265, longitude -3.0961. Open this area on OpenStreetMap

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026, the centre point of each postcode; when each came into use: the same directory; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Drawn by us. Street map: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Zoomstack, Open Government Licence v3.0, drawn with MapLibre. How we use them

The 3 newest postcodes

CH60 0EDMarch 2025 CH60 7SJJuly 2023 CH60 4THOctober 2022

What broadband can you get in CH60?

Ofcom reports on 460 of the 461 postcodes in CH60. At 337 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit337 of 460

Postcodes where every home can get superfast431 of 460

Ofcom gives each postcode's share of homes and businesses, not how many there are, so these count postcodes. Each postcode page has its own figures. A provider's checker answers for one address.

Check one address on Ofcom's checker

Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Is CH60 at risk of flooding?

4 of the 461 postcodes in CH60 have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 6 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 4 of 461 postcodes Medium: 6Low: 8Very low: 1

High: 3.3% or more a year (1 in 30). Medium: 1% to 3.3% a year. Low: 0.1% to 1% a year. Very low: under 0.1% a year (1 in 1,000). Each band is the chance of flooding in any one year.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, as the Environment Agency counts them, added up over the postcodes. It is for the land, not each building, and leaves out surface water, groundwater and sewers. Each postcode page has its own figures and its flood warning areas.

Source: Environment Agency, Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea (postcodes in areas at risk), published 6 July 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

What do homes sell for in CH60?

Homes in CH60 sold for a typical £456,500 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 194 sales, down 0.8% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

£456,500 typical price, the 12 months to August 2026

£460,000 12 months to August 2025

▼ down 0.8% on the 12 months before

Detached £561,250 100 sales
Semi-detached £350,000 57 sales
Terraced 4 sales, too few to price
Flat or maisonette £190,000 33 sales

Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.

Standard sales of homes at market value. A typical price is the median, the middle sale. Sales take weeks to be registered, so the last month or two are incomplete. Each postcode page gives the figure for its own postcode sector.

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it