Property market
The five-year median is £137,832 from 4 recorded sales in CH42 1RA. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Wirral is £215,575 in June 2026, up 7.8% year on year.
CH42 1RA
Rock Ferry · Wirral · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Birkenhead
- Ward
- Rock Ferry
- Local authority
- Wirral
- Constituency
- Birkenhead
- Postcode district
- CH42
- Postcode sector
- CH42 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CH42 1RA
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 June 1999
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CH
- Postcode district
- CH42
- Postcode sector
- CH42 1
- Latitude
- 53.369090
- Longitude
- -3.006293
- British National Grid easting
- 333,141
- British National Grid northing
- 386,273
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Wirral · E08000015
- Electoral ward
- Rock Ferry · E05000971
- Parish or community
- E43000169
- Westminster constituency
- Birkenhead · E14001091
- Output area
- E00036969
- Lower layer super output area
- Wirral 031E · E01007289
- Middle layer super output area
- Wirral 031 · E02001497
Postcode source versions
- Ordnance Survey: Code-Point Open Version 2026-08 · Current postcode units in Great Britain · OGL-3.0
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory Version 2026-08 · United Kingdom; Northern Ireland excluded pending rights review; Crown Dependencies outside product scope · OGL-3.0 with third-party rights
- Ordnance Survey: Boundary-Line Version 2026-05 · Local-authority boundaries in Great Britain · OS OpenData Licence
Explore CH42
Property
20 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 2, Acton Road, Birkenhead, CH42 1RA | 27 February 2026 | £175,000 |
| 11, Acton Road, Birkenhead, CH42 1RA | 22 December 2025 | £130,000 |
| 7, Acton Road, Birkenhead, CH42 1RA | 23 October 2025 | £145,665 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 91
- Primary
- 49
- Secondary
- 15
- 411 m
St Anne's Catholic Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 608 m
Rock Ferry Primary School
Academy converter
- 697 m
Utopia
Other independent special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,771
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,267
- Criminal damage and arson 308
- Public order 271
- Anti social behaviour 217
- Drugs 182
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 31
- Postcode households
- 11
- Residents per household
- 2.8
- CH42 1 residents
- 3,617
14 female, 17 male
Age bands in CH42 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 22.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 27.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 24.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 13.2%
824 residents
416 residents
1,003 residents
875 residents
475 residents
This postcode contained 0.9% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider CH42 1 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
Small counts are adjusted for privacy, so totals can differ slightly between Census tables.
Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
32
within 5 km
RIVERSIDE SURGERY
525 NEW CHESTER ROAD, BIRKENHEAD, CH42 2AG
ODS code N85016
326 m
SUNLIGHT GROUP PRACTICE
SEFTON ROAD, NEW FERRY, WIRRAL, CH62 5HS
ODS code N85051
786 m
GLADSTONE MED CTR
241-243 OLD CHESTER ROAD, ROCK FERRY, BIRKENHEAD, CH42 3TD
ODS code N85031
926 m
ST CATHERINE'S SURGERY
ST. CATHERINES HEALTH CENTRE, CHURCH ROAD, BIRKENHEAD, CH42 0LQ
ODS code N85020
1.8 km
CIVIC MEDICAL CENTRE
CIVIC WAY, BEBINGTON, WIRRAL, CH63 7RX
ODS code N85006
2.1 km
TEEHEY LANE SURGERY
66 TEEHEY LANE, BEBINGTON, WIRRAL, CH63 2JN
ODS code N85057
2.1 km
CHURCH ROAD MEDICAL PRACTICE
25 BRACKENWOOD ROAD, HIGHER BEBINGTON, WIRRAL, CH63 2LR
ODS code N85633
2.4 km
KINGS LANE MEDICAL PRACTICE
25 BRACKENWOOD ROAD, WIRRAL, CH63 2LR
ODS code N85054
2.4 km
WHETSTONE LANE MED CTR
44 WHETSTONE LANE, BIRKENHEAD, CH41 2TF
ODS code N85019
2.6 km
DEVANEY MED CTR
40 BALLS ROAD, OXTON, PRENTON, CH43 5RE
ODS code N85015
2.7 km
HAMILTON MED CTR
86 MARKET STREET, BIRKENHEAD, CH41 6AJ
ODS code N85021
2.8 km
DINGLE PARK PRACTICE
PARK STREET, TOXTETH, LIVERPOOL, L8 6QP
ODS code N82033
2.9 km
DR JUDE'S PRACTICE - RIVERSIDE
RIVERSIDE CENTRE FOR HEALTH, PARK STREET, LIVERPOOL, L8 6QP
ODS code N82646
2.9 km
GP PRACTICE RIVERSIDE (DR JUDE)
RIVERSIDE CTR FOR HEALTH, PARK STREET, LIVERPOOL, L8 6QP
ODS code N82091
2.9 km
THE VILLA MEDICAL CENTRE
1-2 ROMAN ROAD, PRENTON, CH43 3DB
ODS code N85018
3.1 km
SPITAL SURGERY
1 LANCELYN COURT PRECINCT, SPITAL ROAD, BEBINGTON, WIRRAL, CH63 9JP
ODS code N85617
3.1 km
VITTORIA MED CTR G
VITTORIA STREET, BIRKENHEAD, CH41 3RH
ODS code N85038
3.4 km
VITTORIA MED CTR K
VITTORIA STREET, BIRKENHEAD, CH41 3RH
ODS code N85634
3.4 km
THE ELMS MEDICAL CENTRE
3 THE ELMS, DINGLE, LIVERPOOL, L8 3SS
ODS code N82070
3.6 km
HOLMLANDS MED CTR
16-20 HOLMLANDS DR, OXTON, BIRKENHEAD, WIRRAL, PRENTON, CH43 0TX
ODS code N85022
3.6 km
Showing 20 of 32 matching practices.
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
The Hawthornes
BCT · Rock Ferry
- 0.1 miles
Rock Lane West
BCT · Rock Ferry
- 0.1 miles
Spenser Avenue
BCT · Rock Ferry
- 0.1 miles
Knowsley Road
BCT · Rock Ferry
- 0.2 miles
Rock Lane East
BCT · Rock Ferry
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wirral 031E, the published LSOA linked to this postcode. Decile 1 contains the most deprived 10% of English LSOAs and decile 10 the least deprived 10%.
Overall IMD decile
1 of 10
Overall England rank
110 of 33,755
- Income
- 1 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 of 10
These are relative area statistics, not measures of an individual household, affluence or absolute change. They cannot be compared with indices for other UK nations. Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025, version 2025-v2.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 1
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Schools
91 open schools are in scope, including 49 primary and 15 secondary schools. St Anne's Catholic Primary School is the nearest published school at 411 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
2,771 published events cover 12 months, averaging 230.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,267 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.