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Windle

Ward

West St. Helens. About 11,230 people in 6.1 square kilometres.

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Radon Affected Area by ward

Worked out by Open Index · 2022

Under 1%90% or more

About 97% of people in Windle live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.

Population
10,953
2,018th most populated of 8,397
ONS Census 2021 · 2021
People in radon Affected Area squares
97%
UK 44%
Worked out by Open Index
Gigabit broadband coverage
98.7%
UK 87.8%
Ofcom · Jan 2026
Claimant rate
3.0%
UK 3.9%
ONS via Nomis · Aug 2026

How Windle compares

Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.

WindleMiddle
Population18 wards, St. Helens · 2021
Population: every ward in St. Helens18 areas from 3,334 to 13,247. The middle area is 10,841. Windle is 10,953.
10,9538th most populated
People in radon Affected Area squares18 wards, St. Helens · 2022
People in radon Affected Area squares: every ward in St. Helens18 areas from 0.0% to 100.0%. The middle area is 87.5%. Windle is 97.0%.
97%7th most people in radon Affected Areas
Gigabit broadband coverage18 wards, St. Helens · Jan 2026
Gigabit broadband coverage: every ward in St. Helens18 areas from 86.8% to 99.8%. The middle area is 97.6%. Windle is 98.7%.
98.7%6th highest
Claimant rate18 wards, St. Helens · Aug 2026
Claimant rate: every ward in St. Helens18 areas from 1.9% to 8.2%. The middle area is 3.2%. Windle is 3.0%.
3.0%joint 5th lowest

Is Windle safe? What police records show

In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Windle at a rate of 66.9 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, 47 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Windle.

In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (286), other crime (117) and criminal damage and arson (67).

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 Windle alone. See St. Helens

Average house price
£185,154
Up 7.3% in a year
HM Land Registry · Jul 2026
Median full-time pay
£37,306
136th lowest paid of 348
ONS earnings survey · 2025
House price to pay
5.0×
Joint 43rd most affordable of 348
Worked out by Open Index
Deprivation score
29.0
46th most deprived of 296
MHCLG · England only
Windle in brief

Windle had 10,953 usual residents at the census.

About 97% of people in Windle live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.

In Windle, 98.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.

In Windle, 3.0% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.