Property market
The five-year median is £165,000 from 2 recorded sales in CH42 8LD. 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 8LD
Prenton · Wirral · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Birkenhead
- Ward
- Prenton
- Local authority
- Wirral
- Constituency
- Birkenhead
- Postcode district
- CH42
- Postcode sector
- CH42 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CH42 8LD
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 June 1999
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CH
- Postcode district
- CH42
- Postcode sector
- CH42 8
- Latitude
- 53.369891
- Longitude
- -3.038656
- British National Grid easting
- 330,989
- British National Grid northing
- 386,393
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Wirral · E08000015
- Electoral ward
- Prenton · E05000970
- Parish or community
- E43000169
- Westminster constituency
- Birkenhead · E14001091
- Output area
- E00036737
- Lower layer super output area
- Wirral 030A · E01007248
- Middle layer super output area
- Wirral 030 · E02001496
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
37 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 6, Acrefield Road, Birkenhead, CH42 8LD | 16 February 2026 | £220,000 |
| Acrefield Court, 12, Acrefield Road, Birkenhead, CH42 8LD | 16 May 2025 | £110,000 |
| Acrefield Court, 1, Acrefield Road, Birkenhead, CH42 8LD | 16 March 2021 | £75,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 82
- Primary
- 48
- Secondary
- 12
- 251 m
Horizons Independent School
Other independent special school
- 623 m
Devonshire Park Primary School
Community school
- 709 m
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Birkenhead
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,305
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,048
- Public order 220
- Criminal damage and arson 197
- Shoplifting 174
- Anti social behaviour 160
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 58
- Postcode households
- 35
- Residents per household
- 1.7
- CH42 8 residents
- 2,420
26 female, 32 male
Age bands in CH42 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11%
- Age 25 to 44
- 19.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 23.5%
421 residents
285 residents
500 residents
783 residents
611 residents
This postcode contained 2.4% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider CH42 8 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+
- 96.2%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 96.2%
- Gigabit-capable
- 96.2%
- 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
27
within 5 km
THE VILLA MEDICAL CENTRE
1-2 ROMAN ROAD, PRENTON, CH43 3DB
ODS code N85018
1.1 km
ST CATHERINE'S SURGERY
ST. CATHERINES HEALTH CENTRE, CHURCH ROAD, BIRKENHEAD, CH42 0LQ
ODS code N85020
1.4 km
HOLMLANDS MED CTR
16-20 HOLMLANDS DR, OXTON, BIRKENHEAD, WIRRAL, PRENTON, CH43 0TX
ODS code N85022
1.5 km
PRENTON & WOODCHURCH MEDICAL CENTRE
516-518 WOODCHURCH ROAD, PRENTON, BIRKENHEAD, WIRRAL, CH43 0TS
ODS code N85643
1.5 km
GLADSTONE MED CTR
241-243 OLD CHESTER ROAD, ROCK FERRY, BIRKENHEAD, CH42 3TD
ODS code N85031
1.7 km
DEVANEY MED CTR
40 BALLS ROAD, OXTON, PRENTON, CH43 5RE
ODS code N85015
1.7 km
WHETSTONE LANE MED CTR
44 WHETSTONE LANE, BIRKENHEAD, CH41 2TF
ODS code N85019
2.0 km
RIVERSIDE SURGERY
525 NEW CHESTER ROAD, BIRKENHEAD, CH42 2AG
ODS code N85016
2.2 km
TEEHEY LANE SURGERY
66 TEEHEY LANE, BEBINGTON, WIRRAL, CH63 2JN
ODS code N85057
2.2 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
SUNLIGHT GROUP PRACTICE
SEFTON ROAD, NEW FERRY, WIRRAL, CH62 5HS
ODS code N85051
2.7 km
HAMILTON MED CTR
86 MARKET STREET, BIRKENHEAD, CH41 6AJ
ODS code N85021
2.9 km
VITTORIA MED CTR G
VITTORIA STREET, BIRKENHEAD, CH41 3RH
ODS code N85038
3.0 km
VITTORIA MED CTR K
VITTORIA STREET, BIRKENHEAD, CH41 3RH
ODS code N85634
3.0 km
PAXTON MEDICAL GROUP
CLAUGHTON MEDICAL CENTRE, 161 PARK ROAD NORTH, BIRKENHEAD, CH41 0DD
ODS code N85044
3.1 km
CIVIC MEDICAL CENTRE
CIVIC WAY, BEBINGTON, WIRRAL, CH63 7RX
ODS code N85006
3.1 km
CAVENDISH MEDICAL CENTRE
BIRKENHEAD MEDICAL BUILDING, 31 LAIRD STREET, BIRKENHEAD, CH41 8DB
ODS code N85017
3.2 km
MIRIAM PRIMARY CARE GROUP
BIRKENHEAD MEDICAL BUILDING, LAIRD STREET, BIRKENHEAD, CH41 8DB
ODS code N85625
3.2 km
HEATHERLANDS MED CTR
396 NEW HEY ROAD, WIRRAL, CH49 9DA
ODS code N85037
3.6 km
Showing 20 of 27 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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Acrefield
BCT · Prenton
- 0.1 miles
Storeton Road
BCT · Prenton
- 0.1 miles
Mendip Road
BCT · Prenton
- 0.1 miles
St Stephens Road
BCT · Prenton
- 0.1 miles
Prenton Road West
BCT · Prenton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wirral 030A, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
22,060 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 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
- 0
- 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
82 open schools are in scope, including 48 primary and 12 secondary schools. Horizons Independent School is the nearest published school at 251 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
2,305 published events cover 12 months, averaging 192.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,048 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.