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The Wirral Peninsula (/ ˈ w ɪr əl /), known locally as the Wirral, is a peninsula in North West England. The roughly rectangular peninsula is about 15 miles (24 km) long and 7 miles (11 km) wide, and is bounded by the Dee Estuary to the west, the Mersey Estuary to the east, and Liverpool Bay to the north.
Website. wirral.gov.uk. The Metropolitan Borough of Wirral is a metropolitan borough of Merseyside, in North West England. It has a population of 322,453 (2022), [3] and encompasses 62 square miles (161 km 2) of the northern part of the Wirral Peninsula. Major settlements include Birkenhead, Wallasey, Bebington, Heswall, Hoylake and West Kirby.
Oct 11, 2024 · Wirral, metropolitan borough, metropolitan county of Merseyside, historic county of Cheshire, northwestern England. It occupies the major portion of the Wirral peninsula, which is bounded by the River Mersey, the Irish Sea, and the River Dee.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
This page summarises key population and demographic information about Wirral including current population figures, future population projections, births, age, ethnicity and mortality. Also view Census 2021 Reports and Wirral State of the Borough Report.
Explore income deprivation in Wirral at a neighbourhood level. Find facts and figures from across the ONS on Wirral (metropolitan district).
The population of Wirral was 322,453 in 2022 (most recently available data) In terms of the age of the population of Wirral, 16.9% are aged under 15, 60.8% are aged 15-64 (working age) and 22.3% are aged over 65. This is an older population than the England average; The population is forecast to increase by 4.1% to 336,300 by 2043.
Wirral had a higher average (median) age than the North West as a whole in 2021 (40 years) and a higher average (median) age than England (40 years). This is because, as Figure 1 shows, Wirral had a higher proportion of older population aged 65+ and a lower proportion of working age people compared to England in 2021.
