Bootle
TownTown in Sefton, North West.
Bootle is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Bootle add up the census output areas (or, for claimants, the neighbourhoods) that sit mostly inside it, so they are close to, but not exactly, the town’s own.
Gigabit coverage by town
Connected Nations (Ofcom) · January 2026
In Bootle, 95.4% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
How Bootle compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Bootle safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Bootle at a rate of 134.3 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 92.4 per 1,000 people across North West.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 712 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Bootle.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (3,116), other crime (1,452) and anti-social behaviour (749).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Bootle was 127.6 per 1,000 people.
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.
Deprivation in Bootle, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Bootle has no single figure. Of its 38 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 21 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 8 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Bootle
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sefton 023A | 1,129 | 34.7 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.8% |
| Sefton 023B | 1,344 | 106.6 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.8% |
| Sefton 023C | 1,176 | 150.3 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.6% |
| Sefton 023D | 1,199 | 82.9 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.7% |
| Sefton 023E | 1,132 | 210.7 per 1,000 | 1 | 98.3% |
| Sefton 024A | 1,312 | 142.7 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Sefton 024E | 1,448 | 144.2 per 1,000 | 1 | 97.0% |
| Sefton 027C | 1,780 | 37.7 per 1,000 | 6 | 95.7% |
| Sefton 027D | 1,326 | 64.0 per 1,000 | 5 | 96.7% |
| Sefton 027E | 1,248 | 190.7 per 1,000 | 8 | 76.9% |
| Sefton 029A | 1,652 | 114.7 per 1,000 | 1 | 92.1% |
| Sefton 029B | 1,325 | 95.9 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.9% |
| Sefton 029C | 1,338 | 120.3 per 1,000 | 1 | 97.7% |
| Sefton 029D | 1,239 | 255.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 97.9% |
| Sefton 029E | 1,266 | 79.8 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Sefton 033E | 1,538 | 52.2 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.7% |
| Sefton 033F | 2,470 | 44.6 per 1,000 | 8 | 98.9% |
| Sefton 034B | 1,435 | 96.6 per 1,000 | 1 | 98.6% |
| Sefton 035A | 1,449 | 175.3 per 1,000 | 1 | 90.4% |
| Sefton 035B | 2,149 | 95.1 per 1,000 | 4 | 92.5% |
| Sefton 035C | 1,248 | 36.7 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.4% |
| Sefton 035D | 1,303 | 101.3 per 1,000 | 1 | 93.9% |
| Sefton 035E | 1,326 | 65.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Sefton 036A | 1,652 | 169.1 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.1% |
| Sefton 036B | 1,209 | 171.6 per 1,000 | 1 | 98.1% |
| Sefton 036C | 1,405 | 176.0 per 1,000 | 1 | 89.8% |
| Sefton 036D | 1,353 | 97.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 94.8% |
| Sefton 037A | 1,727 | 221.1 per 1,000 | 1 | 90.9% |
| Sefton 037B | 1,280 | 292.1 per 1,000 | 1 | 97.8% |
| Sefton 037C | 1,320 | 208.5 per 1,000 | 1 | 96.4% |
| Sefton 037D | 1,789 | 407.8 per 1,000 | 1 | 79.2% |
| Sefton 037E | 1,575 | 173.6 per 1,000 | 1 | 93.4% |
| Sefton 038A | 1,152 | 70.4 per 1,000 | 4 | 100.0% |
| Sefton 038B | 1,596 | 211.9 per 1,000 | 1 | 90.0% |
| Sefton 038C | 1,394 | 90.7 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.4% |
| Sefton 038D | 1,725 | 66.8 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Sefton 038E | 1,516 | 81.4 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Sefton 038F | 1,653 | 72.6 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.6% |
Your MP
- Peter DowdLabourMP for Bootle
As of , from the UK Parliament Members API. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.
Council1
Postcode districts covering Bootle3
Middle areas in Bootle7
Towns near Bootle6
Bootle in brief
Bootle is a town in Sefton, North West.
About 55,615 people lived in Bootle in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £150,000 in 2025 across 449 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 134.3 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Bootle was £150,000 in 2025.
Bootle had 53,722 usual residents at the census.
In Bootle, 95.4% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Bootle, 6.0% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.