Sutton North West
WardSouth St. Helens. About 7,346 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 1.8 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 95% of people in Sutton North West live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Sutton North West compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Sutton North West safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Sutton North West at a rate of 65.5 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, 28 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Sutton North West.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (169), other crime (46) and drug offences (25).
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 Sutton North West alone. See St. Helens
Sutton North West in brief
Sutton North West had 7,049 usual residents at the census.
About 95% of people in Sutton North West live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Sutton North West, 99.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Sutton North West, 4.5% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.