St. Helens 008C
NeighbourhoodCentral St. Helens. 1,464 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 0.3 square kilometres.
Deprivation by neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025
In the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, St. Helens 008C is in decile 1.
How St. Helens 008C compares
Each dot is a neighbourhood. The black line marks the middle one.
Is St. Helens 008C safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in St. Helens 008C at a rate of 140.7 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 78.8 per 1,000 people across Blackbrook.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 16 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in St. Helens 008C.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (75), other crime (38) and anti-social behaviour (35).
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 St. Helens
These figures are published for the whole of St. Helens, not for each neighbourhood, so they describe all of St. Helens and not St. Helens 008C alone. See St. Helens
St. Helens 008C in brief
St. Helens 008C has a deprivation score of 51.5 in the English Indices of Deprivation 2025.
St. Helens 008C had 1,471 usual residents at the census.
In St. Helens 008C, 100.0% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In St. Helens 008C, 5.2% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.