Halton Castle
WardSouth east Halton. About 6,974 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 5.0 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 92% of people in Halton Castle live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Halton Castle compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Halton Castle safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Halton Castle at a rate of 115.5 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 91.1 per 1,000 people across Halton.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 64 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Halton Castle.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (389), other crime (149) and anti-social behaviour (61).
Worked out by Open Index from police.uk crime records and ONS and NISRA population estimates.
Rates are per resident, so places that many people work in or visit, such as Westminster, the City of London and other city centres, have far higher rates than their residents alone would suggest.
Figures for the whole of Halton
These figures are published for the whole of Halton, not for each ward, so they describe all of Halton and not Halton Castle alone. See Halton
Halton Castle in brief
Halton Castle had 6,763 usual residents at the census.
About 92% of people in Halton Castle live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Halton Castle, 94.4% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Halton Castle, 6.4% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.