Property market
The five-year median is £273,750 from 4 recorded sales in CH48 5EN. 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 5EN
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 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CH48 5EN
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 June 1999
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CH
- Postcode district
- CH48
- Postcode sector
- CH48 5
- Latitude
- 53.376622
- Longitude
- -3.182844
- British National Grid easting
- 321,408
- British National Grid northing
- 387,291
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
- E00036458
- Lower layer super output area
- Wirral 026A · E01007196
- Middle layer super output area
- Wirral 026 · E02001492
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
28 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 40, Orrysdale Road, West Kirby, Wirral, CH48 5EN | 28 February 2025 | £290,000 |
| 34, Orrysdale Road, West Kirby, Wirral, CH48 5EN | 5 March 2024 | £280,000 |
| 18, Orrysdale Road, West Kirby, Wirral, CH48 5EN | 15 August 2022 | £170,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 16
- Primary
- 11
- Secondary
- 3
- 120 m
West Kirby Primary School
Community school
- 206 m
West Kirby School and College
Non-maintained special school
- 218 m
West Kirby Grammar School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 571
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 210
- Anti social behaviour 103
- Public order 64
- Criminal damage and arson 43
- Shoplifting 42
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 48
- Postcode households
- 23
- Residents per household
- 2.1
- CH48 5 residents
- 2,216
28 female, 20 male
Age bands in CH48 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 18.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 30.7%
365 residents
246 residents
472 residents
713 residents
795 residents
This postcode contained 2.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider CH48 5 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%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 96%
- Gigabit-capable
- 96%
- 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
3
within 5 km
MARINE LAKE MEDICAL PRACTICE
MARINE LAKE HEALTH & WELLBEING CTR, ORRYSDALE ROAD, WEST KIRBY, WIRRAL, CH48 5AA
ODS code N85002
243 m
HOYLAKE & MEOLS MEDICAL CTR
WARWICK HOUSE, STATION APPROACH, MEOLS, WIRRAL, CH47 8XA
ODS code N85059
3.2 km
GREASBY GROUP PRACTICE
GREASBY HEALTH CENTRE, GREASBY ROAD, GREASBY, WIRRAL, CH49 3AT
ODS code N85032
4.1 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
- 0.0 miles
Murray Grove
BCT · West Kirby
- 0.1 miles
Redhouse Lane
BCT · West Kirby
- 0.1 miles
Bridge Road
BCT · West Kirby
- 0.1 miles
Bridge Road
BCT · West Kirby
- 0.1 miles
Redhouse Lane
BCT · West Kirby
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wirral 026A, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
24,450 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 7 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
- 3
- 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
16 open schools are in scope, including 11 primary and 3 secondary schools. West Kirby Primary School is the nearest published school at 120 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
571 published events cover 12 months, averaging 47.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 210 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.