Property market
The five-year median is £122,750 from 2 recorded sales in CH49 9BU. 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.
CH49 9BU
Upton · Wirral · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Wirral
- Ward
- Upton
- Local authority
- Wirral
- Constituency
- Wirral West
- Postcode district
- CH49
- Postcode sector
- CH49 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CH49 9BU
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 June 1999
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CH
- Postcode district
- CH49
- Postcode sector
- CH49 9
- Latitude
- 53.380877
- Longitude
- -3.088910
- British National Grid easting
- 327,664
- British National Grid northing
- 387,665
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Wirral · E08000015
- Electoral ward
- Upton · E05000973
- Parish or community
- E43000169
- Westminster constituency
- Wirral West · E14001589
- Output area
- E00037020
- Lower layer super output area
- Wirral 019D · E01007300
- Middle layer super output area
- Wirral 019 · E02001485
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 CH49
Property
17 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 331, New Hey Road, Wirral, CH49 9BU | 7 February 2025 | £131,000 |
| 349, New Hey Road, Wirral, CH49 9BU | 13 August 2024 | £114,500 |
| 321, New Hey Road, Wirral, CH49 9BU | 23 July 2021 | £100,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 81
- Primary
- 50
- Secondary
- 10
- 407 m
Gilbrook School
Community special school
- 621 m
Fender Primary School
Community school
- 621 m
Ganneys Meadow Nursery School and Family Centre
Local authority nursery school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,948
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 882
- Public order 218
- Anti social behaviour 214
- Criminal damage and arson 191
- Other theft 102
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 88
- Postcode households
- 31
- Residents per household
- 2.8
- CH49 9 residents
- 2,606
52 female, 36 male
Age bands in CH49 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 23.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 12%
- Age 25 to 44
- 28.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 22.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 13.6%
527 residents
272 residents
646 residents
510 residents
308 residents
This postcode contained 3.4% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider CH49 9 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
27
within 5 km
HEATHERLANDS MED CTR
396 NEW HEY ROAD, WIRRAL, CH49 9DA
ODS code N85037
80 m
UPTON GROUP PRACTICE
32 FORD ROAD, WIRRAL, CH49 0TF
ODS code N85013
480 m
HOLMLANDS MED CTR
16-20 HOLMLANDS DR, OXTON, BIRKENHEAD, WIRRAL, PRENTON, CH43 0TX
ODS code N85022
2.1 km
PRENTON & WOODCHURCH MEDICAL CENTRE
516-518 WOODCHURCH ROAD, PRENTON, BIRKENHEAD, WIRRAL, CH43 0TS
ODS code N85643
2.2 km
GREASBY GROUP PRACTICE
GREASBY HEALTH CENTRE, GREASBY ROAD, GREASBY, WIRRAL, CH49 3AT
ODS code N85032
2.2 km
WEST WIRRAL GROUP PRACTICE
THE WARRENS MEDICAL CENTRE, ARROWE PARK ROAD, WIRRAL, CH49 5PL
ODS code N85008
2.4 km
MORETON MEDICAL CENTRE
27 UPTON ROAD, MORETON, WIRRAL, CH46 0PE
ODS code N85048
2.4 km
HOYLAKE RD MET CTR
314 HOYLAKE ROAD, MORETON, WIRRAL, CH46 6DE
ODS code N85046
2.8 km
MORETON GROUP PRACTICE
PASTURE ROAD HEALTH CENTRE, PASTURE ROAD, WIRRAL, CH46 8SA
ODS code N85028
2.9 km
PAXTON MEDICAL GROUP
CLAUGHTON MEDICAL CENTRE, 161 PARK ROAD NORTH, BIRKENHEAD, CH41 0DD
ODS code N85044
3.0 km
THE VILLA MEDICAL CENTRE
1-2 ROMAN ROAD, PRENTON, CH43 3DB
ODS code N85018
3.1 km
CAVENDISH MEDICAL CENTRE
BIRKENHEAD MEDICAL BUILDING, 31 LAIRD STREET, BIRKENHEAD, CH41 8DB
ODS code N85017
3.4 km
MIRIAM PRIMARY CARE GROUP
BIRKENHEAD MEDICAL BUILDING, LAIRD STREET, BIRKENHEAD, CH41 8DB
ODS code N85625
3.4 km
DEVANEY MED CTR
40 BALLS ROAD, OXTON, PRENTON, CH43 5RE
ODS code N85015
3.5 km
BLACKHEATH MED CTR
76 REEDS LANE, MORETON, WIRRAL, CH46 1SG
ODS code N85648
3.6 km
LEASOWE MEDICAL PRACTICE
HUDSON ROAD, LEASOWE, WIRRAL, CH46 2QQ
ODS code N85640
4.0 km
WHETSTONE LANE MED CTR
44 WHETSTONE LANE, BIRKENHEAD, CH41 2TF
ODS code N85019
4.0 km
ST CATHERINE'S SURGERY
ST. CATHERINES HEALTH CENTRE, CHURCH ROAD, BIRKENHEAD, CH42 0LQ
ODS code N85020
4.2 km
VITTORIA MED CTR G
VITTORIA STREET, BIRKENHEAD, CH41 3RH
ODS code N85038
4.3 km
VITTORIA MED CTR K
VITTORIA STREET, BIRKENHEAD, CH41 3RH
ODS code N85634
4.3 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
- 0.0 miles
Benedict Close
BCT · Woodchurch
- 0.1 miles
Camden Mews
BCT · Woodchurch
- 0.1 miles
Bridge Farm Close
BCT · Woodchurch
- 0.1 miles
Carr Bridge Road
BCT · Woodchurch
- 0.1 miles
Poolwood Road
BCT · Woodchurch
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wirral 019D, 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
2 of 10
Overall England rank
4,429 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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
81 open schools are in scope, including 50 primary and 10 secondary schools. Gilbrook School is the nearest published school at 407 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
1,948 published events cover 12 months, averaging 162.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 882 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.