Tranmere, Merseyside

Tranmere
Looking from Mersey Park to Agnes Road and towards Victoria Park
Tranmere is located in Merseyside
Tranmere
Tranmere
Location within Merseyside
Population11,668 
(2001 Census)[1]
OS grid referenceSJ300850
• London178 mi (286 km)[2] SE
Metropolitan borough
Metropolitan county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townBIRKENHEAD
Postcode districtCH41
Dialling code0151
ISO 3166 codeGB-WRL
PoliceMerseyside
FireMerseyside
AmbulanceNorth West
UK Parliament
List of places
UK
England
Merseyside
53°22′44″N 3°01′14″W / 53.3788°N 3.0205°W / 53.3788; -3.0205

Tranmere is a suburb of Birkenhead, on the Wirral Peninsula, England. Administratively, it is within the Birkenhead and Tranmere Ward of the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, in Merseyside. Before local government reorganisation on 1 April 1974, it was part of the County Borough of Birkenhead, within the county of Cheshire.

At the 2001 census, the population of Tranmere was 11,668.[3] By the 2011 census the suburb was combined with the centre of Birkenhead. The population was recorded as 15,879.[4][5]

  1. ^ At the 2011 census, the ward was called Birkenhead and Tranmere and the population of most of Tranmere was combined with that of central Birkenhead.
  2. ^ "Coordinate Distance Calculator". boulter.com. Retrieved 6 March 2016.
  3. ^ UK Census (2001). "Local Area Report – Tranmere Ward (00CBFW)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 3 October 2020.
  4. ^ UK Census (2011). "Local Area Report – Birkenhead and Tranmere Ward (E05000956,E08000015,E92000001)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 4 October 2020.
  5. ^ "Birkenhead and Tranmere Ward population 2011". Retrieved 31 May 2015.