Schools
25 open schools are in scope, including 17 primary and 5 secondary schools. Hilbre High School is the nearest published school at 405 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CH48 6BR
West Kirby and Thurstaston · Wirral · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Wirral
- Constituency
- Wirral West
- Postcode district
- CH48
- Postcode sector
- CH48 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CH48 6BR
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 July 2000
- Terminated
- 1 July 2000
- Postcode area
- CH
- Postcode district
- CH48
- Postcode sector
- CH48 6
- Latitude
- 53.373280
- Longitude
- -3.165285
- British National Grid easting
- 322,570
- British National Grid northing
- 386,900
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
- E00036796
- Lower layer super output area
- Wirral 028B · E01007260
- 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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 25
- Primary
- 17
- Secondary
- 5
- 405 m
Hilbre High School
Academy converter
- 502 m
Black Horse Hill Infant School
Community school
- 502 m
Black Horse Hill Junior School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 596
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 216
- Anti social behaviour 106
- Public order 61
- Criminal damage and arson 48
- Shoplifting 41
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CH48 6 residents
- 2,179
Age bands in CH48 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 22.5%
392 residents
202 residents
469 residents
566 residents
474 residents
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.
GP practices
6
within 5 km
MARINE LAKE MEDICAL PRACTICE
MARINE LAKE HEALTH & WELLBEING CTR, ORRYSDALE ROAD, WEST KIRBY, WIRRAL, CH48 5AA
ODS code N85002
1.1 km
GREASBY GROUP PRACTICE
GREASBY HEALTH CENTRE, GREASBY ROAD, GREASBY, WIRRAL, CH49 3AT
ODS code N85032
3.0 km
HOYLAKE & MEOLS MEDICAL CTR
WARWICK HOUSE, STATION APPROACH, MEOLS, WIRRAL, CH47 8XA
ODS code N85059
3.0 km
HOYLAKE RD MET CTR
314 HOYLAKE ROAD, MORETON, WIRRAL, CH46 6DE
ODS code N85046
4.3 km
MORETON MEDICAL CENTRE
27 UPTON ROAD, MORETON, WIRRAL, CH46 0PE
ODS code N85048
4.7 km
MORETON GROUP PRACTICE
PASTURE ROAD HEALTH CENTRE, PASTURE ROAD, WIRRAL, CH46 8SA
ODS code N85028
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
- 0.1 miles
Ennisdale Drive
BCT · Grange
- 0.1 miles
Ennisdale Drive
BCT · Grange
- 0.2 miles
Black Horse Hill
BCT · West Kirby
- 0.2 miles
Black Horse Hill
BCT · West Kirby
- 0.2 miles
Wirral Mount
BCT · Grange
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wirral 028B, 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
31,355 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
596 published events cover 12 months, averaging 49.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 216 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.