Property market
The five-year median is £170,000 from 1 recorded sale in L42 9LH. 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.
L42 9LH
Birkenhead and Tranmere · Wirral · England
Updated September 2026
Compare this postcodeLocation overview
Drag to pan. Use + or - to zoom. Open larger map
- Post town
- Prenton
- Local authority
- Wirral
- Constituency
- Birkenhead
- Postcode district
- L42
- Postcode sector
- L42 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- L42 9LH
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 June 1999
- Postcode area
- L
- Postcode district
- L42
- Postcode sector
- L42 9
- Latitude
- 53.381665
- Longitude
- -3.035770
- British National Grid easting
- 331,200
- British National Grid northing
- 387,700
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Wirral · E08000015
- Electoral ward
- Birkenhead and Tranmere · E05000956
- Parish or community
- E43000169
- Westminster constituency
- Birkenhead · E14001091
- Output area
- E00036696
- Lower layer super output area
- Wirral 022E · E01007244
- Middle layer super output area
- Wirral 022 · E02001488
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 L42
Property
2 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 93, Woodchurch Road, Prenton, L42 9LH | 30 August 2022 | £170,000 |
| 93, Woodchurch Road, Prenton, L42 9LH | 3 December 1996 | £59,500 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 108
- Primary
- 63
- Secondary
- 15
- 226 m
Woodchurch Road Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 353 m
Birkenhead Christ Church CofE Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 620 m
St Werburgh's Catholic Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 6,150
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2,335
- Shoplifting 693
- Public order 669
- Criminal damage and arson 506
- Drugs 463
GP practices
33
within 5 km straight-line
DEVANEY MED CTR
40 BALLS ROAD, OXTON, PRENTON, CH43 5RE
ODS code N85015
411 m
ST CATHERINE'S SURGERY
ST. CATHERINES HEALTH CENTRE, CHURCH ROAD, BIRKENHEAD, CH42 0LQ
ODS code N85020
641 m
WHETSTONE LANE MED CTR
44 WHETSTONE LANE, BIRKENHEAD, CH41 2TF
ODS code N85019
749 m
GLADSTONE MED CTR
241-243 OLD CHESTER ROAD, ROCK FERRY, BIRKENHEAD, CH42 3TD
ODS code N85031
1.5 km
VITTORIA MED CTR G
VITTORIA STREET, BIRKENHEAD, CH41 3RH
ODS code N85038
1.7 km
VITTORIA MED CTR K
VITTORIA STREET, BIRKENHEAD, CH41 3RH
ODS code N85634
1.7 km
HAMILTON MED CTR
86 MARKET STREET, BIRKENHEAD, CH41 6AJ
ODS code N85021
1.7 km
HOLMLANDS MED CTR
16-20 HOLMLANDS DR, OXTON, BIRKENHEAD, WIRRAL, PRENTON, CH43 0TX
ODS code N85022
1.9 km
CAVENDISH MEDICAL CENTRE
BIRKENHEAD MEDICAL BUILDING, 31 LAIRD STREET, BIRKENHEAD, CH41 8DB
ODS code N85017
2.0 km
MIRIAM PRIMARY CARE GROUP
BIRKENHEAD MEDICAL BUILDING, LAIRD STREET, BIRKENHEAD, CH41 8DB
ODS code N85625
2.0 km
PAXTON MEDICAL GROUP
CLAUGHTON MEDICAL CENTRE, 161 PARK ROAD NORTH, BIRKENHEAD, CH41 0DD
ODS code N85044
2.0 km
PRENTON & WOODCHURCH MEDICAL CENTRE
516-518 WOODCHURCH ROAD, PRENTON, BIRKENHEAD, WIRRAL, CH43 0TS
ODS code N85643
2.0 km
THE VILLA MEDICAL CENTRE
1-2 ROMAN ROAD, PRENTON, CH43 3DB
ODS code N85018
2.2 km
RIVERSIDE SURGERY
525 NEW CHESTER ROAD, BIRKENHEAD, CH42 2AG
ODS code N85016
2.2 km
SUNLIGHT GROUP PRACTICE
SEFTON ROAD, NEW FERRY, WIRRAL, CH62 5HS
ODS code N85051
3.1 km
SOMERVILLE MED CTR
69 GORSEY LANE, WALLASEY, CH44 4AA
ODS code N85024
3.2 km
TEEHEY LANE SURGERY
66 TEEHEY LANE, BEBINGTON, WIRRAL, CH63 2JN
ODS code N85057
3.3 km
HEATHERLANDS MED CTR
396 NEW HEY ROAD, WIRRAL, CH49 9DA
ODS code N85037
3.6 km
UPTON GROUP PRACTICE
32 FORD ROAD, WIRRAL, CH49 0TF
ODS code N85013
3.6 km
CHURCH ROAD MEDICAL PRACTICE
25 BRACKENWOOD ROAD, HIGHER BEBINGTON, WIRRAL, CH63 2LR
ODS code N85633
3.6 km
Showing 20 of 33 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Woodville Road
BCT · Oxton
- 0.1 miles
South Hill Road
BCT · Oxton
- 0.1 miles
Briardale Road
BCT · Oxton
- 0.1 miles
Kingsland Road
BCT · Oxton
- 0.1 miles
Victoria Fields
BCT · Oxton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wirral 022E, 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
4,748 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 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
Schools
108 open schools are in scope, including 63 primary and 15 secondary schools. Woodchurch Road Academy is the nearest published school at 226 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
6,150 published events cover 12 months, averaging 512.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2,335 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.