Property market
The five-year median is £2,000,000 from 1 recorded sale in CH48 2JF. 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.
CH48 2JF
West Kirby and Thurstaston · Wirral · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Wirral
- Local authority
- Wirral
- Constituency
- Wirral West
- Postcode district
- CH48
- Postcode sector
- CH48 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CH48 2JF
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 June 1999
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CH
- Postcode district
- CH48
- Postcode sector
- CH48 2
- Latitude
- 53.360854
- Longitude
- -3.160919
- British National Grid easting
- 322,838
- British National Grid northing
- 385,513
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Wirral · E08000015
- Electoral ward
- West Kirby and Thurstaston · E05000975
- Parish or community
- E43000169
- Westminster constituency
- Wirral West · E14001589
- Output area
- E00036938
- Lower layer super output area
- Wirral 028E · E01007283
- Middle layer super output area
- Wirral 028 · E02001494
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 CH48
Property
18 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Stapledon Cottage, Kings Drive, Caldy, Wirral, CH48 2JF | 8 September 2025 | £2,000,000 |
| Thorswood, Kings Drive, Caldy, Wirral, CH48 2JF | 29 June 2021 | £1,340,000 |
| Heath Grange, Kings Drive, Caldy, Wirral, CH48 2JF | 23 March 2021 | £1,200,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 26
- Primary
- 16
- Secondary
- 5
- 760 m
Calday Grange Grammar School
Academy converter
- 899 m
Avalon School
Other independent school
- 1.3 km
West Kirby St Bridget's CofE Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 199
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 71
- Anti social behaviour 36
- Public order 20
- Criminal damage and arson 17
- Burglary 15
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 27
- Postcode households
- 11
- Residents per household
- 2.5
- CH48 2 residents
- 1,169
14 female, 13 male
Age bands in CH48 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 14.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 31.3%
198 residents
138 residents
190 residents
401 residents
422 residents
This postcode contained 2.3% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider CH48 2 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
4
within 5 km
MARINE LAKE MEDICAL PRACTICE
MARINE LAKE HEALTH & WELLBEING CTR, ORRYSDALE ROAD, WEST KIRBY, WIRRAL, CH48 5AA
ODS code N85002
2.1 km
GREASBY GROUP PRACTICE
GREASBY HEALTH CENTRE, GREASBY ROAD, GREASBY, WIRRAL, CH49 3AT
ODS code N85032
3.2 km
HOYLAKE & MEOLS MEDICAL CTR
WARWICK HOUSE, STATION APPROACH, MEOLS, WIRRAL, CH47 8XA
ODS code N85059
4.4 km
WEST WIRRAL GROUP PRACTICE
THE WARRENS MEDICAL CENTRE, ARROWE PARK ROAD, WIRRAL, CH49 5PL
ODS code N85008
4.6 km
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
Caldy Wood
BCT · Caldy
- 0.3 miles
Kings Drive
BCT · Caldy
- 0.3 miles
Croft Drive West
BCT · Kirby Park
- 0.3 miles
Croft Drive East
BCT · Caldy
- 0.4 miles
Boundary Road
BCT · Newton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wirral 028E, 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
10 of 10
Overall England rank
30,630 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 10 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
26 open schools are in scope, including 16 primary and 5 secondary schools. Calday Grange Grammar School is the nearest published school at 760 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
199 published events cover 12 months, averaging 16.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 71 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.