West Kirby
West Kirby is covered by postcode district CH48. It is in the Wirral council area, England.
Every postcode in West Kirby, by flood risk
- A home or business at high risk: 5
- At medium risk at worst: 1
- At low risk at worst: 1
- At very low risk only: 0
- Not on the at-risk list: 404
Of the 411 postcodes in West Kirby that ONS places, 5 have a home or business at high risk, 1 are at medium risk at worst, 1 are at low risk at worst and 404 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.
The middle of its postcodes: latitude 53.3717, longitude -3.1726. Open this area on OpenStreetMap
Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; Environment Agency flood risk, published 6 July 2026; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Ordnance Survey open maps. 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.
The postcodes at high risk
Beside each: how many of its homes and businesses the Environment Agency puts at that risk.
What is it like to live in West Kirby?
Homes sold for a typical £350,000 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 359 of the 407 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 13 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 7 of its 411 postcodes. It has 5 primary schools and 3 secondary schools at its postcodes. One GP practice is at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is West Kirby, 750 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.
We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge.
Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data; Ofcom Connected Nations; Environment Agency flood risk; Get Information about Schools; NHS GP practices; NaPTAN. Each figure is from a section of this page, which gives its date.
What do homes cost in West Kirby?
Homes in West Kirby sold for a typical £350,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 214 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £334,000 from 272 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.
- Detached £525,000 60 sales
- Semi-detached £340,000 70 sales
- Terraced £260,000 37 sales
- Flat or maisonette £225,000 47 sales
Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.
Across the whole CH48 district, West Kirby's main postcode district: a typical £365,000.
Sales at the postcodes ONS places in West Kirby: 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 October 2026.
Are new homes being built in West Kirby?
7 of the 411 postcodes now in use in West Kirby came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 10 of the 272 homes sold in West Kirby were newly built (4%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the CH48 district, 3%.
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 West Kirby | Across the CH48 district |
|---|---|---|
| The 12 months to September 2026 | 3 of 214 (1%) | 3 of 229 (1%) |
| The 12 months to September 2025 | 10 of 272 (4%) | 10 of 292 (3%) |
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.
Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.
What broadband can you get in West Kirby?
Ofcom reports on 407 of the 411 postcodes in West Kirby. At 359 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.
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, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026.
Is West Kirby at risk of flooding?
7 of the 411 postcodes in West Kirby 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 13 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 flood risk, published 6 July 2026.
Which schools are in West Kirby?
The open schools at the postcodes in West Kirby. 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. Special schools and alternative provision, which children join by referral, are not listed.
Primary
An orange bar: the school has as many pupils as places, or more (Department for Education's figures).
Find and compare schools in England, on GOV.UKSource: Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026. Each school opens its own record there.
How far is the station from West Kirby?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in West Kirby is West Kirby Rail Station, 750 m away in a straight line.
- West Kirby Rail Station Railway station 750 mWalk
- Hoylake Rail Station Railway station 2.1 kmCycle
- Manor Road Rail Station Railway station 2.6 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: NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
Which GP surgeries are in West Kirby?
The GP practices at the postcodes in West Kirby. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.
- Marine Lake Medical Practice Care Quality Commission rating: Requires improvement CQC report December 2022, over 3 years old · Phone 0151 625 9171 700 mWalk
Sources: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026; Care Quality Commission, ratings of 1 October 2026.
Is West Kirby safe? Crime recorded around it
Police.uk records 655 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in West Kirby 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
- 57 September 2025
- 45 October 2025
- 37 November 2025
- 40 December 2025
- 52 January 2026
- 36 February 2026
- 63 March 2026
- 56 April 2026
- 78 May 2026
- 49 June 2026
- 68 July 2026
- 74 August 2026
By kind, over the 12 months
Also: vehicle crime 20, drugs 17, robbery 6, possession of weapons 5, bicycle theft 4, theft from the person 1.
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 to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026.
Who runs West Kirby?
- Council
- Wirral
- Parliamentary constituency
- Wirral West
- Police force area
- Merseyside
- Region
- North West
- Country
- England
- MP
- Matthew Patrick (Labour)
All 411 postcodes here share these. Wards differ: check a postcode for yours. What council am I in?
Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; UK Parliament, read 14 October 2026.
Moving to West Kirby
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 West Kirby
- 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
West Kirby postcodes
411 postcodes in use in West Kirby, by district:
That district is in the CH postcode area.
Check a West Kirby postcode
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Places near West Kirby
With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside West Kirby's £350,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.
Quick answers about West Kirby
- What is the postcode for West Kirby?
- Postcode district CH48, with 411 postcodes in use. Source: ONS.
- Which council is West Kirby in?
- Wirral. Source: ONS.
- Who is the MP for West Kirby?
- Matthew Patrick (Labour), for Wirral West. Source: UK Parliament and ONS.
- How much are houses in West Kirby?
- A typical £350,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, from 214 sales. Source: HM Land Registry.
- What schools are in West Kirby?
- Primary schools at its postcodes include West Kirby St Bridget's CofE Primary School, Avalon School and Black Horse Hill Infant School; secondary schools at its postcodes include Calday Grange Grammar School, Hilbre High School and West Kirby Grammar School. Source: Department for Education.
- Does West Kirby have a railway station?
- Yes: West Kirby station, 750 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport.
- What broadband can you get in West Kirby?
- Ofcom reports on 407 of the 411 postcodes in West Kirby. At 359 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom.
- Is West Kirby at risk of flooding?
- 7 of the 411 postcodes in West Kirby 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 13 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk. River and sea risk for the land, not surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
- Are new homes being built in West Kirby?
- 7 of the 411 postcodes now in use in West Kirby came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 10 of the 272 homes sold in West Kirby were newly built (4%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the CH48 district, 3%. Source: ONS and HM Land Registry.
Where the facts on this page come from
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory
- Environment Agency flood risk
- HM Land Registry Price Paid Data
- Ofcom Connected Nations
- Department for Education: Get Information about Schools
- Department for Transport: NaPTAN
- NHS England: NHS GP practices
- Care Quality Commission
- data.police.uk: police.uk
- UK Parliament
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. This uses Care Quality Commission information. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0.
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