Birkenhead
Birkenhead is covered by postcode districts CH41, CH42, CH43, CH46, CH49, CH63 and 4 more. It is in the Wirral council area, England.
Every postcode in Birkenhead, by flood risk
- A home or business at high risk: 13
- At medium risk at worst: 2
- At low risk at worst: 9
- At very low risk only: 9
- Not on the at-risk list: 2,840
Of the 2,873 postcodes in Birkenhead that ONS places, 13 have a home or business at high risk, 2 are at medium risk at worst, 9 are at low risk at worst, 9 are at very low risk only and 2,840 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list.
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. 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 53.3842, longitude -3.0493. 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; flood risk: Environment Agency, published 6 July 2026; 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 postcodes at high risk
13 postcodes here have a home or business at high risk. These are the 12 with the most homes and businesses at that risk.
Beside each: how many of its homes and businesses the Environment Agency puts at that risk.
What is it like to live in Birkenhead?
Homes sold for a typical £185,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, up 8.8% on the 12 months before. At 2,549 of the 2,804 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 81 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 33 of its 2,873 postcodes. It has at least 6 primary schools, 2 secondary schools and 2 all-through schools at its postcodes. At least 5 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Birkenhead Park, 1.6 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.
We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge.
Source: HM Land Registry, Ofcom, the Environment Agency, the Department for Education, NHS England and the Department for Transport, as each section of this page says. See all our data sources
What do homes cost in Birkenhead?
Homes in Birkenhead sold for a typical £185,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 1,085 sales, up 8.8% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.
- Detached £392,500 137 sales
- Semi-detached £220,000 424 sales
- Terraced £140,000 363 sales
- Flat or maisonette £127,000 161 sales
Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.
Across the whole CH43 district, Birkenhead's main postcode district: a typical £226,000.
Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Birkenhead: 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
Are new homes being built in Birkenhead?
87 of the 2,873 postcodes now in use in Birkenhead came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 18 of the 1,344 homes sold in Birkenhead were newly built (1%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the CH43 district, Under 1%.
The newest postcodes
A new postcode is often a new street or estate, but Royal Mail also makes new postcodes when it reorganises old ones, so not every one means new homes. Only postcodes still in use are counted.
New homes among the homes sold
| Period | In Birkenhead | Across the CH43 district |
|---|---|---|
| The 12 months to August 2026 | 6 of 1,085 (Under 1%) | 0 of 392 (0%) |
| The 12 months to August 2025 | 18 of 1,344 (1%) | 3 of 509 (Under 1%) |
Standard sales of homes at market value that HM Land Registry marks as newly built. New homes take longer to be registered than other sales, so the latest 12 months count fewer of them than were sold. A share is given from 5 sales or more.
Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
What broadband can you get in Birkenhead?
Ofcom reports on 2,804 of the 2,873 postcodes in Birkenhead. At 2,549 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 1 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s).
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 checkerSource: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Is Birkenhead at risk of flooding?
33 of the 2,873 postcodes in Birkenhead 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 81 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.
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
Which schools are in Birkenhead?
The open schools at the postcodes in Birkenhead (the first 8 primaries by distance from its middle). A school for ages 4 to 18 is listed under both. Distances are straight lines from the middle of its postcodes. Distance is not a catchment: each council sets its own admission rules.
Primary
- Birkenhead School300 m 892 pupils, 1,050 places
- Birkenhead High School Academy400 m 1,226 pupils, 1,293 places
- Townfield Primary School700 m 487 pupils, 471 places
- Oxton St Saviour's CofE Primary School950 m 207 pupils, 220 places
- Birkenhead Christ Church CofE Primary School1.0 km 203 pupils, 210 places
- Woodchurch Road Academy1.0 km 171 pupils, 497 places
- St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Birkenhead1.2 km 237 pupils, 420 places
- St Werburgh's Catholic Primary School1.4 km 210 pupils, 256 places
Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. Each school opens its own record there. How we use it
How far is the station from Birkenhead?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Birkenhead is Birkenhead Park Rail Station, 1.6 km away in a straight line.
- Birkenhead Park Rail Station Railway station 1.6 kmCycle
- Birkenhead Central Rail Station Railway station 1.9 kmCycle
- Conway Park Rail Station Railway station 2.0 kmCycle
Straight-line distances from the centre point, not routes. Walk: under 1.2 km. Cycle: 1.2 to 5 km. Drive: further.
Straight-line distances from the middle of the postcodes, not routes. Each postcode page lists its own nearest stations and bus stops. The Department for Transport's register does not say how often services run.
Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Which GP surgeries are in Birkenhead?
The GP practices at the postcodes in Birkenhead, the first 5 by distance from its middle. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.
- Devaney Med Ctr Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report February 2016, over 3 years old · Phone 0151 652 4281 800 mWalk
- Whetstone Lane Med Ctr Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report August 2016, over 3 years old · Phone 0151 647 9613 1.3 kmCycle
- Paxton Medical Group Phone 0151 652 1688 1.4 kmCycle
- Holmlands Med Ctr Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report October 2018, over 3 years old · Phone 0151 608 7750 1.5 kmCycle
- Cavendish Medical Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report March 2019, over 3 years old · Phone 0151 652 1955 1.6 kmCycle
Source: NHS England, Organisation Data Service (GP practices), read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Is Birkenhead safe? Crime recorded around it
Police.uk records 4,391 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Birkenhead over the 12 months from September 2025 to August 2026. August 2026 is the latest month it has published. These are counts, not a rate: we hold no count of the people who live, work or pass through, so we do not say whether a place is safe.
Each month, September 2025 to August 2026
- 311 September 2025
- 395 October 2025
- 363 November 2025
- 359 December 2025
- 306 January 2026
- 331 February 2026
- 402 March 2026
- 385 April 2026
- 397 May 2026
- 399 June 2026
- 373 July 2026
- 370 August 2026
By kind, over the 12 months
Also: burglary 111, other crime 86, robbery 53, possession of weapons 49, bicycle theft 34, theft from the person 13.
Police.uk says its locations "always represent the approximate location of a crime". Each crime is moved to the nearest of a fixed list of map points, each over a street centre, a public place or a commercial premises, chosen so that every point covers at least eight addresses or none. A mile is a wide circle: in a town it takes in the centre and its shops, where much crime is recorded.
Crime around one postcodeSource: Police.uk (data.police.uk), data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Who runs Birkenhead?
- Council
- Wirral
- Parliamentary constituencies
- Birkenhead (2,407), Wallasey (243), Wirral West (219) and 1 other
- Police force area
- Merseyside
- Region
- North West
- Country
- England
Where the place crosses a boundary, a row lists each side with its number of postcodes. Check a postcode for its own. What council am I in?
Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. See all our data sources
Moving to Birkenhead
Who to tell and what to sort out in your first week.
- Tell Wirral about council tax Council tax, on wirral.gov.uk
- Register to vote at the new address Register to vote on GOV.UK
- Register with a GP practice The GP practices in Birkenhead
- Take meter readings on the day you move in
- Power cut? Call 105. It is free. About 105, the power cut number
- Find out your bin day Check your bin day on BinDayBuddy, which reads the council's own collection system
Birkenhead postcodes
2,873 postcodes in use in Birkenhead, by district:
Those districts are all in the CH postcode area.
Check a Birkenhead postcode
Enter a full postcode to see its ward, its flood risk, house prices in its sector and its nearest schools.
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Places near Birkenhead
With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Birkenhead's £185,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.
Questions about Birkenhead
- What is it like to live in Birkenhead?
- Homes sold for a typical £185,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, up 8.8% on the 12 months before. At 2,549 of the 2,804 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 81 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 33 of its 2,873 postcodes. It has at least 6 primary schools, 2 secondary schools and 2 all-through schools at its postcodes. At least 5 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Birkenhead Park, 1.6 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge. Source: HM Land Registry, Ofcom, the Environment Agency, the Department for Education, NHS England and the Department for Transport, as each section of this page says.
- What is the postcode for Birkenhead?
- Birkenhead is covered by postcode districts CH41, CH42, CH43, CH46, CH49, CH63 and 4 more, across 2,873 postcodes in use. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
- Which council is Birkenhead in?
- Birkenhead is in the Wirral council area. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
- How much are houses in Birkenhead?
- Homes in Birkenhead sold for a typical £185,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 1,085 sales, up 8.8% on the 12 months before. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026.
- What schools are in Birkenhead?
- In Birkenhead, primary schools at its postcodes include Birkenhead School, Birkenhead High School Academy and Townfield Primary School; secondary schools at its postcodes include Birkenhead School, Birkenhead High School Academy and St Anselm's College. Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026.
- Does Birkenhead have a railway station?
- The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Birkenhead is Birkenhead Park, 1.6 km away in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
- What broadband can you get in Birkenhead?
- Ofcom reports on 2,804 of the 2,873 postcodes in Birkenhead. At 2,549 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 1 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s). Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026.
- Is Birkenhead at risk of flooding?
- 33 of the 2,873 postcodes in Birkenhead 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 81 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk. This is long-term risk for the land, and leaves out surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
- Are new homes being built in Birkenhead?
- 87 of the 2,873 postcodes now in use in Birkenhead came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 18 of the 1,344 homes sold in Birkenhead were newly built (1%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the CH43 district, Under 1%. Source: ONS Postcode Directory and HM Land Registry Price Paid Data.
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