Population Statistics
Moreton

Metropolitan Borough of Wirral · England

Moreton population

17,670people · latest estimate

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Moreton has a population of 17,670, making it the 5th largest place in Metropolitan Borough of Wirral.

Year-by-year official estimates for the wider area: Wirral population trends, 2001–2025.

Moreton in context

4 km
north-east to Wallasey, the nearest larger town
1,095,248
people live within 10 km
#733
largest of 6,358 UK places
1,148
food businesses in Wirral
Moreton in the UK

Distances are straight-line from the settlement's recorded coordinates. The 10 km figure sums the recorded places within that radius, so it describes how built-up the surroundings are rather than people per square kilometre.

The centre of Moreton sits in postcode district CH46.

Council tax

The area Band D council tax for Wirral, the billing authority covering Moreton, is £2,501 for 2026–27.

From MHCLG's council tax statistics (Table 9): the area average including police, fire and parish precepts, so it is the council's figure rather than the town's, and your own band depends on your property's 1991 valuation.

Common questions

What is the population of Moreton?
The populated place itself holds 17,670 residents. The wider Wirral council area recorded 329,896 in 2025. Each figure describes a different boundary and all are correct; the meanings table on this page says which is which, because a population without its boundary is not an answer.

Go deeper

Population since 2001
Wirral, year by year from ONS estimates
Postcode district CH46
Wards, constituencies and the deprivation profile

Nearby in Metropolitan Borough of Wirral

#PlacePopulation
1Wallasey58,794
2Bebington57,600
3Heswall29,075
4Bromborough14,850
5Prenton14,429
6Greasby9,830

All 13 places in Metropolitan Borough of Wirral →