Property market
The five-year median is £315,000 from 1 recorded sale in CH48 5HJ. 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 5HJ
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 5HJ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 June 1999
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CH
- Postcode district
- CH48
- Postcode sector
- CH48 5
- Latitude
- 53.376531
- Longitude
- -3.172935
- British National Grid easting
- 322,067
- British National Grid northing
- 387,270
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
- E00036828
- Lower layer super output area
- Wirral 026D · E01007263
- 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
13 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 59, Lang Lane, West Kirby, Wirral, CH48 5HJ | 16 January 2026 | £315,000 |
| 61, Lang Lane, Wirral, CH48 5HJ | 7 March 2014 | £166,000 |
| 65, Lang Lane, Wirral, CH48 5HJ | 3 January 2014 | £210,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 21
- Primary
- 15
- Secondary
- 4
- 690 m
Black Horse Hill Infant School
Community school
- 690 m
Black Horse Hill Junior School
Academy converter
- 708 m
West Kirby Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 619
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 232
- Anti social behaviour 110
- Public order 68
- Criminal damage and arson 47
- Shoplifting 41
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 18
- Postcode households
- 6
- Residents per household
- 3.0
- CH48 5 residents
- 2,216
10 female, 8 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 0.8% 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+
- 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
5
within 5 km
MARINE LAKE MEDICAL PRACTICE
MARINE LAKE HEALTH & WELLBEING CTR, ORRYSDALE ROAD, WEST KIRBY, WIRRAL, CH48 5AA
ODS code N85002
655 m
HOYLAKE & MEOLS MEDICAL CTR
WARWICK HOUSE, STATION APPROACH, MEOLS, WIRRAL, CH47 8XA
ODS code N85059
2.8 km
GREASBY GROUP PRACTICE
GREASBY HEALTH CENTRE, GREASBY ROAD, GREASBY, WIRRAL, CH49 3AT
ODS code N85032
3.4 km
HOYLAKE RD MET CTR
314 HOYLAKE ROAD, MORETON, WIRRAL, CH46 6DE
ODS code N85046
4.5 km
MORETON MEDICAL CENTRE
27 UPTON ROAD, MORETON, WIRRAL, CH46 0PE
ODS code N85048
4.9 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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Gresford Avenue
BCT · Newton
- 0.2 miles
Raeburn Avenue
BCT · Newton
- 0.2 miles
Abbots Way
BCT · Newton
- 0.2 miles
Broxton Avenue
BCT · West Kirby
- 0.2 miles
Gilroy Road
BCT · Newton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wirral 026D, 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
3 of 10
Overall England rank
8,066 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
21 open schools are in scope, including 15 primary and 4 secondary schools. Black Horse Hill Infant School is the nearest published school at 690 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
619 published events cover 12 months, averaging 51.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 232 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.