Birkenhead
TownTown in Wirral, North West.
Birkenhead is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Birkenhead add up the census output areas (or, for claimants, the neighbourhoods) that sit mostly inside it, so they are close to, but not exactly, the town’s own.
Radon Affected Area by town
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 0% of people in Birkenhead live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Birkenhead compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Birkenhead safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Birkenhead at a rate of 115.7 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 92.4 per 1,000 people across North West.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 1,132 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Birkenhead.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (5,238), other crime (2,510) and anti-social behaviour (1,552).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Birkenhead was 115.5 per 1,000 people.
Worked out by Open Index from police.uk crime records and ONS and NISRA population estimates.
Rates are per resident, so places that many people work in or visit, such as Westminster, the City of London and other city centres, have far higher rates than their residents alone would suggest.
Deprivation in Birkenhead, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Birkenhead has no single figure. Of its 70 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 32 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 8 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 8 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Birkenhead
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wirral 010G | 1,256 | 287.9 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.3% |
| Wirral 010H | 1,634 | 101.7 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.4% |
| Wirral 011A | 1,374 | 98.4 per 1,000 | 1 | 95.2% |
| Wirral 011B | 1,479 | 271.2 per 1,000 | 1 | 96.3% |
| Wirral 011C | 1,554 | 193.4 per 1,000 | 1 | 94.6% |
| Wirral 011D | 1,603 | 85.9 per 1,000 | 1 | 96.6% |
| Wirral 011E | 1,687 | 108.3 per 1,000 | 1 | 96.0% |
| Wirral 015A | 1,594 | 74.4 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Wirral 015B | 1,519 | 57.6 per 1,000 | 4 | 96.0% |
| Wirral 015C | 1,496 | 48.4 per 1,000 | 5 | 98.5% |
| Wirral 015D | 1,525 | 69.4 per 1,000 | 6 | 98.3% |
| Wirral 015E | 1,950 | 43.5 per 1,000 | 8 | 88.4% |
| Wirral 016B | 1,630 | 143.8 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.6% |
| Wirral 016C | 1,691 | 756.3 per 1,000 | 1 | 92.6% |
| Wirral 016D | 1,448 | 195.0 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.7% |
| Wirral 016E | 1,209 | 219.4 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.3% |
| Wirral 016F | 1,022 | 403.5 per 1,000 | 1 | 88.6% |
| Wirral 016G | 1,042 | 743.8 per 1,000 | 1 | 85.1% |
| Wirral 017D | 1,277 | 23.4 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.9% |
| Wirral 017E | 1,556 | 29.7 per 1,000 | 8 | 100.0% |
| Wirral 018A | 1,489 | 33.4 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.1% |
| Wirral 018B | 1,519 | 16.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 96.3% |
| Wirral 018C | 1,563 | 40.6 per 1,000 | 7 | 98.9% |
| Wirral 018D | 1,926 | 112.0 per 1,000 | 5 | 91.7% |
| Wirral 018E | 1,575 | 28.6 per 1,000 | 8 | 98.8% |
| Wirral 019A | 1,647 | 63.5 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Wirral 019B | 1,543 | 52.1 per 1,000 | 6 | 96.6% |
| Wirral 019C | 1,451 | 80.4 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Wirral 019D | 2,260 | 78.3 per 1,000 | 2 | 98.3% |
| Wirral 020A | 1,693 | 139.2 per 1,000 | 1 | 97.0% |
| Wirral 020B | 1,609 | 68.7 per 1,000 | 5 | 95.9% |
| Wirral 020C | 1,608 | 39.6 per 1,000 | 4 | 92.4% |
| Wirral 020D | 1,368 | 23.5 per 1,000 | 8 | 90.1% |
| Wirral 020E | 1,666 | 45.4 per 1,000 | 8 | 93.3% |
| Wirral 021A | 1,789 | 176.4 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.1% |
| Wirral 021B | 1,683 | 110.6 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Wirral 021C | 1,284 | 108.1 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Wirral 021D | 1,632 | 244.6 per 1,000 | 1 | 93.2% |
| Wirral 021E | 1,551 | 175.1 per 1,000 | 1 | 97.2% |
| Wirral 021F | 1,438 | 72.8 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Wirral 022A | 1,542 | 81.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Wirral 022B | 1,512 | 94.5 per 1,000 | 2 | 98.0% |
| Wirral 022C | 1,652 | 242.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 93.9% |
| Wirral 022D | 1,536 | 54.3 per 1,000 | 6 | 94.9% |
| Wirral 022E | 2,153 | 70.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Wirral 024A | 2,257 | 58.8 per 1,000 | 6 | 97.7% |
| Wirral 024B | 1,446 | 61.4 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.6% |
| Wirral 024C | 1,396 | 32.8 per 1,000 | 8 | 100.0% |
| Wirral 024D | 1,636 | 16.9 per 1,000 | 8 | 100.0% |
| Wirral 024E | 1,473 | 46.5 per 1,000 | 7 | 98.7% |
| Wirral 025A | 1,303 | 95.4 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.7% |
| Wirral 025B | 1,092 | 305.5 per 1,000 | 6 | 96.3% |
| Wirral 025C | 1,295 | 92.1 per 1,000 | 1 | 98.7% |
| Wirral 025D | 1,491 | 101.7 per 1,000 | 1 | 98.4% |
| Wirral 025E | 1,551 | 133.6 per 1,000 | 1 | 98.2% |
| Wirral 027A | 1,974 | 44.1 per 1,000 | 1 | 98.7% |
| Wirral 027B | 1,963 | 97.4 per 1,000 | 1 | 97.5% |
| Wirral 027C | 1,609 | 135.5 per 1,000 | 1 | 94.7% |
| Wirral 027D | 1,690 | 148.1 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.4% |
| Wirral 027E | 1,702 | 102.9 per 1,000 | 1 | 98.3% |
| Wirral 029A | 1,525 | 62.5 per 1,000 | 4 | 100.0% |
| Wirral 029B | 1,701 | 56.1 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.9% |
| Wirral 029C | 1,632 | 89.6 per 1,000 | 2 | 95.9% |
| Wirral 029D | 1,541 | 64.7 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.7% |
| Wirral 029E | 1,587 | 69.0 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Wirral 030A | 1,485 | 34.5 per 1,000 | 7 | 97.6% |
| Wirral 030B | 1,366 | 30.7 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
| Wirral 030C | 1,590 | 58.6 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.7% |
| Wirral 030D | 1,618 | 26.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 92.4% |
| Wirral 031E | 1,629 | 161.8 per 1,000 | 1 | 98.9% |
Your MP
- Alison McGovernLabourMP for Birkenhead
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Council1
Postcode districts covering Birkenhead4
Middle areas in Birkenhead13
Towns near Birkenhead6
Birkenhead in brief
Birkenhead is a town in Wirral, North West.
About 114,569 people lived in Birkenhead in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £175,000 in 2025 across 1,374 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 115.7 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Birkenhead was £175,000 in 2025.
Birkenhead had 109,854 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Birkenhead live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Birkenhead, 96.9% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.