Bootle West
WardSouth Sefton. About 15,015 people in 5.6 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 0% of people in Bootle West live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Bootle West compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Bootle West safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Bootle West at a rate of 208.3 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 84.8 per 1,000 people across Sefton.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 286 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Bootle West.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,157), other crime (580) and criminal damage and arson (261).
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 Sefton
These figures are published for the whole of Sefton, not for each ward, so they describe all of Sefton and not Bootle West alone. See Sefton
Bootle West in brief
Bootle West had 13,994 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Bootle West live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Bootle West, 93.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Bootle West, 8.1% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.