Schools
41 open schools are in scope, including 29 primary and 4 secondary schools. Stanley School is the nearest published school at 726 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CH61 1AF
Pensby and Thingwall · Wirral · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Wirral
- Ward
- Pensby and Thingwall
- Local authority
- Wirral
- Constituency
- Wirral West
- Postcode district
- CH61
- Postcode sector
- CH61 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CH61 1AF
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 June 1999
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CH
- Postcode district
- CH61
- Postcode sector
- CH61 1
- Latitude
- 53.347709
- Longitude
- -3.093533
- British National Grid easting
- 327,300
- British National Grid northing
- 383,980
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Wirral · E08000015
- Electoral ward
- Pensby and Thingwall · E05000969
- Parish or community
- E43000169
- Westminster constituency
- Wirral West · E14001589
- Output area
- E00036408
- Lower layer super output area
- Wirral 034A · E01007183
- Middle layer super output area
- Wirral 034 · E02001500
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 CH61
Property
5 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 15, Gills Lane, Wirral, CH61 1AF | 2 May 2019 | £450,000 |
| 15, Gills Lane, Wirral, CH61 1AF | 11 January 2017 | £285,000 |
| 17, Gills Lane, Wirral, CH61 1AF | 8 June 2005 | £205,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 41
- Primary
- 29
- Secondary
- 4
- 726 m
Stanley School
Community special school
- 730 m
Pensby Primary School
Community school
- 959 m
Thingwall Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 449
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 237
- Other theft 41
- Criminal damage and arson 37
- Public order 32
- Anti social behaviour 25
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 7
- Postcode households
- 3
- Residents per household
- 2.3
- CH61 1 residents
- 1,371
3 female, 4 male
Age bands in CH61 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 7.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 19.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 29.2%
140 residents
73 residents
202 residents
312 residents
300 residents
This postcode contained 0.5% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider CH61 1 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
11
within 5 km
WEST WIRRAL GROUP PRACTICE
THE WARRENS MEDICAL CENTRE, ARROWE PARK ROAD, WIRRAL, CH49 5PL
ODS code N85008
1.3 km
MYRTLE GROUP PRACTICE
270 TELEGRAPH ROAD, HESWALL, WIRRAL, CH60 7RN
ODS code N85007
2.0 km
THE VILLA MEDICAL CENTRE
1-2 ROMAN ROAD, PRENTON, CH43 3DB
ODS code N85018
3.3 km
PRENTON & WOODCHURCH MEDICAL CENTRE
516-518 WOODCHURCH ROAD, PRENTON, BIRKENHEAD, WIRRAL, CH43 0TS
ODS code N85643
3.4 km
HOLMLANDS MED CTR
16-20 HOLMLANDS DR, OXTON, BIRKENHEAD, WIRRAL, PRENTON, CH43 0TX
ODS code N85022
3.6 km
HEATHERLANDS MED CTR
396 NEW HEY ROAD, WIRRAL, CH49 9DA
ODS code N85037
3.8 km
GREASBY GROUP PRACTICE
GREASBY HEALTH CENTRE, GREASBY ROAD, GREASBY, WIRRAL, CH49 3AT
ODS code N85032
3.8 km
UPTON GROUP PRACTICE
32 FORD ROAD, WIRRAL, CH49 0TF
ODS code N85013
4.2 km
CHURCH ROAD MEDICAL PRACTICE
25 BRACKENWOOD ROAD, HIGHER BEBINGTON, WIRRAL, CH63 2LR
ODS code N85633
4.7 km
KINGS LANE MEDICAL PRACTICE
25 BRACKENWOOD ROAD, WIRRAL, CH63 2LR
ODS code N85054
4.7 km
TEEHEY LANE SURGERY
66 TEEHEY LANE, BEBINGTON, WIRRAL, CH63 2JN
ODS code N85057
4.7 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
Gills Lane
BCT · Pensby
- 0.1 miles
Fishers Lane
BCT · Pensby
- 0.1 miles
Beech Avenue
BCT · Pensby
- 0.1 miles
Beech Avenue
BCT · Pensby
- 0.2 miles
Shearman Road
BCT · Pensby
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wirral 034A, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
28,319 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
Recorded crime
449 published events cover 12 months, averaging 37.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 237 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.