Formby West
WardWest Sefton. About 11,363 people in 16 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 0% of people in Formby West live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Formby West compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Formby West safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Formby West at a rate of 51.4 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, 55 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Formby West.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (201), anti-social behaviour (130) and other crime (103).
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 West alone. See Sefton
Formby West in brief
Formby West had 11,547 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Formby West live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Formby West, 91.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Formby West, 1.7% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.