# Crosby

Town in Sefton, North West.

Crosby is a town in Sefton, North West. Median sale price £259,998 in 2025. Recorded crime 73.4 per 1,000 people. About 51,367 people.

Town. Code E63001273. In: [Towns](https://openindex.co.uk/places/towns) › [Sefton](https://openindex.co.uk/sefton)

Crosby is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Crosby 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.

## Key figures

- **Median sale price: £259,998** (2025). The median price paid for a home in Crosby was £259,998 in 2025. 511th cheapest of 1,092. Source: Worked out by Open Index from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data. Published 28 September 2026. https://openindex.co.uk/town/crosby#f-house-sales-median-price
- **Population: 50,218** (2021). Crosby had 50,218 usual residents at the census (ONS Census 2021). 217th most populated of 1,209. Source: Census 2021, England and Wales and Scotland's Census 2022 and Census 2021, Northern Ireland, 2021. Published 21 July 2026. https://openindex.co.uk/town/crosby#f-population
- **People in radon Affected Area squares: 0%** (2022). About 0% of people in Crosby live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area. UK 44%. Source: Worked out by Open Index from the UKHSA and BGS radon atlas and census output areas. Published 1 December 2022. https://openindex.co.uk/town/crosby#f-radon-affected-share
- **Gigabit broadband coverage: 97.9%** (January 2026). In Crosby, 97.9% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026 (Ofcom). UK 87.8%. Source: Connected Nations (Ofcom), January 2026. Published 13 May 2026. https://openindex.co.uk/town/crosby#f-gigabit-coverage

## On the map

- [Radon Affected Area by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/radon-affected-areas#place=E63001273) (Worked out by Open Index · 2022): About 0% of people in Crosby live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
- [Sales per year by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/house-sales-per-year#place=E63001273) (Worked out by Open Index · 2025): 724 homes were sold in Crosby in 2025.
- [Crime and ASB by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/recorded-crime#place=E63001273) (Police recorded crime and outcomes (data.police.uk) · August 2026): Crime and anti-social behaviour for Crosby.
- [Population by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/population#place=E63001273) (Census 2021, England and Wales): Crosby had 50,218 usual residents at the census.

## How Crosby compares

Each town against every other town the measure covers.

| Measure | Crosby | Rank | Compared with |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Median sale price | £259,998 | 44th most expensive | 161 towns, North West · 2025 |
| Population | 50,218 | 33rd most populated | 161 towns, North West · 2021 |
| People in radon Affected Area squares | 0% | joint fewest people in radon Affected Areas | 161 towns, North West · 2022 |
| Gigabit broadband coverage | 97.9% | joint 28th highest | 161 towns, North West · Jan 2026 |

## Is Crosby safe? What police records show

In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Crosby at a rate of 73.4 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, 343 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Crosby.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,600), other crime (672) and anti-social behaviour (493).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Crosby was 71.1 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 Crosby, neighbourhood by neighbourhood

- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Crosby has no single figure. Of its 35 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 3 neighbourhoods

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.

## Neighbourhoods in Crosby

| Area | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Sefton 021A](https://openindex.co.uk/sefton/neighbourhood/e01007020) | 1,353 | 73.7 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| [Sefton 021B](https://openindex.co.uk/sefton/neighbourhood/e01007022) | 1,347 | 70.7 per 1,000 | 3 | 98.1% |
| [Sefton 021C](https://openindex.co.uk/sefton/neighbourhood/e01007023) | 1,376 | 26.5 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.1% |
| [Sefton 021E](https://openindex.co.uk/sefton/neighbourhood/e01007037) | 1,567 | 104.6 per 1,000 | 8 | 98.3% |
| [Sefton 021F](https://openindex.co.uk/sefton/neighbourhood/e01007038) | 1,620 | 111.2 per 1,000 | 4 | 98.6% |
| [Sefton 022A](https://openindex.co.uk/sefton/neighbourhood/e01006936) | 1,433 | 70.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 91.5% |
| [Sefton 022B](https://openindex.co.uk/sefton/neighbourhood/e01006937) | 1,366 | 12.1 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| [Sefton 022C](https://openindex.co.uk/sefton/neighbourhood/e01006938) | 1,361 | 27.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.7% |
| [Sefton 022D](https://openindex.co.uk/sefton/neighbourhood/e01006939) | 1,474 | 198.7 per 1,000 | 6 | 93.0% |
| [Sefton 022E](https://openindex.co.uk/sefton/neighbourhood/e01006940) | 1,427 | 32.5 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.9% |
| [Sefton 022F](https://openindex.co.uk/sefton/neighbourhood/e01006943) | 1,304 | 29.2 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.8% |
| [Sefton 024C](https://openindex.co.uk/sefton/neighbourhood/e01007024) | 1,050 | 60.7 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.1% |
| [Sefton 024D](https://openindex.co.uk/sefton/neighbourhood/e01007026) | 1,181 | 78.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| [Sefton 025A](https://openindex.co.uk/sefton/neighbourhood/e01007021) | 1,256 | 65.3 per 1,000 | 9 | 90.2% |
| [Sefton 025B](https://openindex.co.uk/sefton/neighbourhood/e01007025) | 1,307 | 35.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| [Sefton 025C](https://openindex.co.uk/sefton/neighbourhood/e01007105) | 1,578 | 114.0 per 1,000 | 6 | 90.9% |
| [Sefton 025D](https://openindex.co.uk/sefton/neighbourhood/e01007106) | 1,772 | 30.3 per 1,000 | 7 | 100.0% |
| [Sefton 025E](https://openindex.co.uk/sefton/neighbourhood/e01007107) | 1,356 | 23.5 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.8% |
| [Sefton 025F](https://openindex.co.uk/sefton/neighbourhood/e01007108) | 1,543 | 18.0 per 1,000 | 7 | 100.0% |
| [Sefton 028A](https://openindex.co.uk/sefton/neighbourhood/e01006941) | 1,541 | 35.8 per 1,000 | 7 | 97.2% |
| [Sefton 028B](https://openindex.co.uk/sefton/neighbourhood/e01006942) | 1,461 | 46.2 per 1,000 | 6 | 95.9% |
| [Sefton 028C](https://openindex.co.uk/sefton/neighbourhood/e01006954) | 1,531 | 71.7 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.9% |
| [Sefton 028D](https://openindex.co.uk/sefton/neighbourhood/e01007104) | 1,386 | 50.7 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.8% |
| [Sefton 028E](https://openindex.co.uk/sefton/neighbourhood/e01007109) | 1,495 | 49.7 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.7% |
| [Sefton 030A](https://openindex.co.uk/sefton/neighbourhood/e01006955) | 1,595 | 48.1 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.7% |
| [Sefton 030B](https://openindex.co.uk/sefton/neighbourhood/e01006956) | 1,581 | 120.8 per 1,000 | 3 | 98.0% |
| [Sefton 030C](https://openindex.co.uk/sefton/neighbourhood/e01006958) | 1,536 | 81.9 per 1,000 | 2 | 98.5% |
| [Sefton 030D](https://openindex.co.uk/sefton/neighbourhood/e01007102) | 1,506 | 56.1 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.9% |
| [Sefton 030E](https://openindex.co.uk/sefton/neighbourhood/e01007103) | 1,471 | 34.2 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.9% |
| [Sefton 032A](https://openindex.co.uk/sefton/neighbourhood/e01006952) | 1,322 | 128.7 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.9% |
| [Sefton 032B](https://openindex.co.uk/sefton/neighbourhood/e01006953) | 1,446 | 117.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 97.5% |
| [Sefton 032C](https://openindex.co.uk/sefton/neighbourhood/e01006957) | 1,572 | 145.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.8% |
| [Sefton 032D](https://openindex.co.uk/sefton/neighbourhood/e01006959) | 1,494 | 63.4 per 1,000 | 5 | 92.2% |
| [Sefton 034A](https://openindex.co.uk/sefton/neighbourhood/e01007004) | 1,414 | 101.0 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.7% |
| [Sefton 034C](https://openindex.co.uk/sefton/neighbourhood/e01007011) | 1,479 | 183.1 per 1,000 | 1 | 96.0% |

## Your MP

- [Bootle](https://openindex.co.uk/constituency/bootle): Peter Dowd (Labour), MP since July 2024.

As of 18 October 2026. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.

## Council

[Sefton](https://openindex.co.uk/sefton)

## Postcode districts covering Crosby

[L21](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/l21), [L22](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/l22), [L23](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/l23)

## Middle areas in Crosby

[Blundellsands](https://openindex.co.uk/sefton/blundellsands), [Brighton le Sands & Crosby West](https://openindex.co.uk/sefton/brighton-le-sands-and-crosby-west), [Crosby East](https://openindex.co.uk/sefton/crosby-east), [Ford](https://openindex.co.uk/sefton/ford), [Hightown & Thornton](https://openindex.co.uk/sefton/hightown-and-thornton), [Seaforth North](https://openindex.co.uk/sefton/seaforth-north), [Seaforth South](https://openindex.co.uk/sefton/seaforth-south), [Waterloo](https://openindex.co.uk/sefton/waterloo)

## Towns near Crosby

[Litherland](https://openindex.co.uk/town/litherland), [Bootle](https://openindex.co.uk/town/bootle), [Wallasey](https://openindex.co.uk/town/wallasey), [Liverpool](https://openindex.co.uk/liverpool), [Maghull](https://openindex.co.uk/town/maghull), [Formby](https://openindex.co.uk/town/formby)

## Crosby in brief

Crosby is a town in Sefton, North West.
About 51,367 people lived in Crosby in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £259,998 in 2025 across 724 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 73.4 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Crosby was £259,998 in 2025.
Crosby had 50,218 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Crosby live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Crosby, 97.9% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.

## About

- Type: Town
- Code: E63001273
- Constituency: [Bootle †](https://openindex.co.uk/constituency/bootle)
- Council: [Sefton †](https://openindex.co.uk/sefton)
- Region: [North West](https://openindex.co.uk/north-west)
- Nation: [England](https://openindex.co.uk/england)
- Area: 11.51 km²
- People, mid-2024: 51,367*
- Neighbourhoods: 35
- Output areas: 169

* People: worked out by Open Index from neighbourhood estimates, shared out by where people lived at the census (by area in Northern Ireland). This area's edges do not follow neighbourhood edges, so the figure is close but not exact.
† Best fit: the constituency and council this town mostly lies in. Its edges do not follow theirs.

## Next door

[Bootle](https://openindex.co.uk/town/bootle), [Litherland](https://openindex.co.uk/town/litherland), [Wallasey](https://openindex.co.uk/town/wallasey), [Liverpool](https://openindex.co.uk/liverpool), [Maghull](https://openindex.co.uk/town/maghull), [Formby](https://openindex.co.uk/town/formby)

## Latest updates for Crosby

- August 2026 house prices published: HM Land Registry and partners · Oct 2026.
- September 2026 rent published: ONS private rents · Oct 2026.
- Dental practices updated: NHS England · Oct 2026.
- Schools updated: Ofsted · Oct 2026.

The same figures as JSON: https://openindex.co.uk/v1/places/E63001273

## How to cite

Source: Open Index, openindex.co.uk. Link to this page, https://openindex.co.uk/town/crosby, or to one figure with its anchor, https://openindex.co.uk/town/crosby#f-house-sales-median-price.

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Snapshot 2026.10.10. The HTML page: https://openindex.co.uk/town/crosby