Crosby (Sefton)

16°COvercast

• Today: 18° / 14° · 26% rain
• Tomorrow: 21° / 16° · Sunny

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:40Sunset 19:35

12h 55m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

27US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: ozone

Source: WAQI · Wirral Tranmere, United Kingdom

245 reported · July 2026▲ 7% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences85
• Anti-social behaviour44
• Criminal damage & arson24
• Public order22

34 stop & searches · mostly controlled drugs

Neighbourhood team: Victoria · Merseyside

Source: data.police.uk (within ~1 mile)

297 reported road collisions (2024)

72 killed or seriously injured · 382 casualties · 10.6 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

462 food businesses within 2 miles

• 370 rated 4–5 ★ (275 top)
• 9 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Waterloo (1.0 km)
• 58 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£225,433 average▲ 5.2% YoY

Across Sefton · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£935 average monthly rent▲ 5.5% YoY

• 1 bed £621
• 2 bed £811
• 3 bed £990

Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents · to 2026-07

7.0× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 7.0 times median annual pay (6.5× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

• Cheapest petrol: 155.9p · Esso (7.7 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 144.8p · AppleGreen (7.6 km)

22 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

83 charging locations within ~8 km

• 6 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 150 kW
• Nearest: Crosby Park Nissan (0.7 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres2
• Gyms1
• Sports pitches58
• Playgrounds9

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

279,233 residents in Sefton · 1,783/km²

• Under 16: 17%
• 16–64: 60%
• 65+: 23%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

More deprived than the average in England

Ranked 89 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

20% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

£2,583 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band A (30% of 131,350)

Source: VOA council-tax stock · MHCLG band levels 2026-27

116 schools · 41,789 pupils

74 primary · 18 secondary · 24 other

Ofsted: 40 of 47 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (85%)

103inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Sefton

287 CQC-registered services

• Care homes111
• GP practices54
• Dentists51
• Homecare agencies50
• Hospitals & hospices8

CQC ratings: 90% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 4 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Sefton

• Not in the Green Belt
• 97 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (England)

256 applications decided

90.6% granted · 232 granted, 24 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Peter Dowd

Labour

Bootle

Source: UK Parliament

Labour majority

• Lab 36
• LD 17
• Grn 3
• Ref 4
• Oth 6

Source: Open Council Data UK (CC BY-SA)

• Schools26
• GPs & clinics5
• Pharmacies3
• Supermarkets4
• Parks & greens16
• Restaurants & cafés38

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

9,400 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

£748 median full-time weekly pay

3.7% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£23,038 disposable income per head (2024)

Source: ONS / Nomis (claimant count · ASHE) · ONS regional GDHI

39% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 140,983 certificates

11.3% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

Source: MHCLG EPC statistics · DESNZ sub-regional fuel poverty

62% low-carbon electricity

Gas 35% · Solar 21% · Nuclear 21% · Wind 18%

139 gCO₂/kWh · moderate intensity

Latest estimate for North Wales & Merseyside · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 83 yrs women · 78.7 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy: 59.5 women · 59 men

70% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.4
• Feeling worthwhile7.7
• Happiness yesterday7.4
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.2

Average rating out of 10 · ONS personal well-being 2022-23

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Bootle:

• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office360 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership337 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Review the evidence and fund the addition of SMA to the Newborn Screening Test322 local signatures · 151,287 nationwide
• Change surrogacy law to recognise intended parents from birth300 local signatures · 112,809 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s297 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-08-06

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  Merchant Taylors' Boys' School, Crosby · 0.1 km

  Merchant Taylors' Boys' School, Crosby is a 7–18 boys private day school, located in Great Crosby on Merseyside. The school's motto is that of the Worshipful Company of Merchant Taylors: Concordia Parvae Res Crescunt.

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  Merchant Taylors' Girls' School · 0.1 km

  Merchant Taylors' Girls' School is a selective private girls' school in Great Crosby, Merseyside, England.

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  St. Mary's College, Crosby · 0.5 km

  St. Mary's College is an independent Roman Catholic coeducational day school in Crosby, Merseyside, about seven miles north of Liverpool. It comprises an early years department "Bright Sparks", preparatory school know…

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  Marine A.F.C. · 0.7 km

  Marine Association Football Club is an English football club based in Crosby, Merseyside. The club, which was founded in 1894, is a member of both the Liverpool County and Lancashire County Football Associations, and…

• Sefton Rural District · 0.7 km

  Sefton was a rural district in Lancashire, England from 1894 to 1932.

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  Brighton-le-Sands, Merseyside · 0.7 km

  Brighton-le-Sands is an area of Merseyside, England, in the borough of Sefton. It is located close to Crosby, situated between Blundellsands to the north, Waterloo to the south and Great Crosby to the east.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)