Rainford
WardNorth west St. Helens. About 7,937 people in 28 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 46% of people in Rainford live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Rainford compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Rainford safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Rainford at a rate of 34.9 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 94.3 per 1,000 people across St. Helens.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 21 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Rainford.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (136), other crime (51) and anti-social behaviour (27).
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 ward, so they describe all of St. Helens and not Rainford alone. See St. Helens
Rainford in brief
Rainford had 7,848 usual residents at the census.
About 46% of people in Rainford live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Rainford, 86.8% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Rainford, 1.9% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.