Schools
33 open schools are in scope, including 23 primary and 5 secondary schools. Pensby Primary School is the nearest published school at 234 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CH61 5YP
Pensby and Thingwall · Wirral · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Pensby and Thingwall
- Local authority
- Wirral
- Constituency
- Wirral West
- Postcode district
- CH61
- Postcode sector
- CH61 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CH61 5YP
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 June 1999
- Terminated
- 1 December 1999
- Postcode area
- CH
- Postcode district
- CH61
- Postcode sector
- CH61 5
- Latitude
- 53.343528
- Longitude
- -3.101522
- British National Grid easting
- 326,761
- British National Grid northing
- 383,523
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
- E00036925
- Lower layer super output area
- Wirral 034D · E01007279
- 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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 33
- Primary
- 23
- Secondary
- 5
- 234 m
Pensby Primary School
Community school
- 287 m
Ladymount Catholic Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 418 m
Stanley School
Community special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 509
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 271
- Other theft 47
- Criminal damage and arson 43
- Public order 36
- Anti social behaviour 30
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CH61 5 residents
- 2,180
Age bands in CH61 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 28%
413 residents
204 residents
565 residents
663 residents
718 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
8
within 5 km straight-line
MYRTLE GROUP PRACTICE
270 TELEGRAPH ROAD, HESWALL, WIRRAL, CH60 7RN
ODS code N85007
1.5 km
WEST WIRRAL GROUP PRACTICE
THE WARRENS MEDICAL CENTRE, ARROWE PARK ROAD, WIRRAL, CH49 5PL
ODS code N85008
1.9 km
GREASBY GROUP PRACTICE
GREASBY HEALTH CENTRE, GREASBY ROAD, GREASBY, WIRRAL, CH49 3AT
ODS code N85032
4.0 km
THE VILLA MEDICAL CENTRE
1-2 ROMAN ROAD, PRENTON, CH43 3DB
ODS code N85018
4.0 km
PRENTON & WOODCHURCH MEDICAL CENTRE
516-518 WOODCHURCH ROAD, PRENTON, BIRKENHEAD, WIRRAL, CH43 0TS
ODS code N85643
4.1 km
HOLMLANDS MED CTR
16-20 HOLMLANDS DR, OXTON, BIRKENHEAD, WIRRAL, PRENTON, CH43 0TX
ODS code N85022
4.2 km
HEATHERLANDS MED CTR
396 NEW HEY ROAD, WIRRAL, CH49 9DA
ODS code N85037
4.3 km
UPTON GROUP PRACTICE
32 FORD ROAD, WIRRAL, CH49 0TF
ODS code N85013
4.7 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Ashlea Road
BCT · Pensby
- 0.1 miles
Rosemead Avenue
BCT · Pensby
- 0.1 miles
Ashlea Road
BCT · Pensby
- 0.1 miles
Old Wood Road
BCT · Pensby
- 0.1 miles
Kentmere Drive
BCT · Pensby
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wirral 034D, 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
27,390 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
509 published events cover 12 months, averaging 42.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 271 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.