Thornton & Hightown
WardSouth Sefton. About 12,838 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 18 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 0% of people in Thornton & Hightown live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Thornton & Hightown compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Thornton & Hightown safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Thornton & Hightown at a rate of 69.0 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, 79 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Thornton & Hightown.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (378), other crime (167) and anti-social behaviour (104).
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 Thornton & Hightown alone. See Sefton
Thornton & Hightown in brief
Thornton & Hightown had 12,370 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Thornton & Hightown live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Thornton & Hightown, 95.8% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Thornton & Hightown, 2.7% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.