Speke
WardSouth east Liverpool. About 14,727 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 7.9 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 31% of people in Speke live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Speke compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Speke safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Speke at a rate of 130.1 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 136.4 per 1,000 people across Liverpool.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 159 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Speke.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (672), other crime (367) and criminal damage and arson (269).
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 Liverpool
These figures are published for the whole of Liverpool, not for each ward, so they describe all of Liverpool and not Speke alone. See Liverpool
Speke in brief
Speke had 14,333 usual residents at the census.
About 31% of people in Speke live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Speke, 97.8% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Speke, 5.8% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.