The Metropolitan Borough of Wirral is part of the Liverpool City Region. It is bounded to the west by the River Dee, forming a boundary with Wales, to the east by the River Mersey, and to the north by the Irish Sea.
The roughly rectangular peninsula is about 15 miles long and seven miles wide. Despite this narrow geography, it contains a wide range of socio-economic communities, with affluent areas largely in the west, south and north coast of the peninsula, and deprived areas concentrated in the east, around the built-up district of Birkenhead.
Around one in four children live in poverty before housing costs, a rise of 2.7 percentage points on the 2016/17 level according to data collected for the End Child Poverty group. This rate rises to 29 per cent once housing costs have been factored in.
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