Formby East
WardSouth Sefton. About 12,745 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 18 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 0% of people in Formby East live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Formby East compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Formby East safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Formby East at a rate of 48.3 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, 49 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Formby East.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (234), other crime (102) and shoplifting (79).
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 Formby East alone. See Sefton
Formby East in brief
Formby East had 12,082 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Formby East live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Formby East, 93.5% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Formby East, 1.9% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.