Litherland

16°CPatchy rain nearby

• Today: 18° / 15° · 60% rain
• Tomorrow: 21° / 15° · 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

18US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: ozone

Source: WAQI · Wirral Tranmere, United Kingdom

409 reported · July 2026▲ 6% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences178
• Anti-social behaviour49
• Public order38
• Criminal damage & arson30

56 stop & searches · mostly controlled drugs

Neighbourhood team: Ford · 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)

500+ food businesses within 2 miles

• 361 rated 4–5 ★ (263 top)
• 19 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency · split of the nearest 500

• Nearest station: Seaforth & Litherland (0.7 km)
• 63 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 (5.5 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 144.8p · AppleGreen (5.9 km)

23 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

150 charging locations within ~8 km

• 10 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 175 kW
• Nearest: Hawthorn Road (1.7 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres2
• Swimming pools1
• Sports pitches38
• Golf courses1
• Playgrounds15

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
• 14 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 & clinics1
• Pharmacies1
• Supermarkets2
• Parks & greens19
• Restaurants & cafés3

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

9,400 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

43 jobs advertised · £32,340 avg

e.g. Become a Photography Tutor in Litherland – Flexible & Remote, Online Italian Tutoring Job in Litherland – Flexible Schedule, Online Chemistry Tutoring Job in Litherland – Flexible Schedule

Source: Adzuna

£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

83% low-carbon electricity

Nuclear 50% · Wind 28% · Gas 10% · Imports 7%

46 gCO₂/kWh · low 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

• Litherland (ward) · 0.2 km

  Litherland is a Metropolitan Borough of Sefton ward in the Bootle Parliamentary constituency that covers the southern part of the locality of Litherland. The ward population taken at the 2011 census was 11,231.

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  Litherland Town Hall · 0.3 km

  Litherland Town Hall is a former municipal building in Hatton Hill Road, Litherland, Merseyside, England. The structure, which was the headquarters of Litherland Urban District Council, now functions as a health centr…

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  Litherland · 0.3 km

  Litherland is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, Merseyside. Until 1974, it was within the historic county of Lancashire. It was an urban district, which included Seaforth and Ford. It neighbours Waterloo t…

• Linacre Road railway station · 0.5 km

  Linacre Road railway station was a station located on the North Mersey Branch in Litherland, Lancashire.

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  Orrell, Merseyside · 0.6 km

  Orrell is the name given to a residential area in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, Merseyside, England. It is not to be confused with Orrell Park which is a separate neighbouring area.

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  Seaforth & Litherland railway station · 0.7 km

  Seaforth & Litherland railway station is a railway station in Seaforth, Merseyside, England, on the Northern Line of the Merseyrail network. It also serves the adjacent area of Litherland.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)