Formby
TownTown in Sefton, North West.
Formby is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Formby 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.
Radon Affected Area by town
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 0% of people in Formby live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Formby compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Formby safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Formby at a rate of 48.5 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, 94 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Formby.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (414), anti-social behaviour (186) and other crime (185).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Formby was 46.7 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 Formby, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Formby has no single figure. Of its 17 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 5 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Formby
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sefton 013A | 1,373 | 37.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 88.5% |
| Sefton 013B | 1,344 | 42.5 per 1,000 | 9 | 83.4% |
| Sefton 013C | 1,200 | 35.6 per 1,000 | 8 | 81.7% |
| Sefton 013D | 1,246 | 22.0 per 1,000 | 9 | 87.1% |
| Sefton 013E | 1,169 | 13.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 88.6% |
| Sefton 014A | 1,506 | 31.2 per 1,000 | 6 | 92.9% |
| Sefton 014B | 1,529 | 34.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 92.5% |
| Sefton 014C | 1,439 | 44.5 per 1,000 | 7 | 100.0% |
| Sefton 014D | 1,584 | 122.2 per 1,000 | 9 | 91.5% |
| Sefton 015A | 1,447 | 32.4 per 1,000 | 10 | 86.2% |
| Sefton 015B | 1,276 | 93.9 per 1,000 | 7 | 98.4% |
| Sefton 015C | 1,416 | 43.2 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.2% |
| Sefton 015D | 1,504 | 98.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.7% |
| Sefton 016A | 1,315 | 77.7 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.1% |
| Sefton 016B | 1,563 | 45.0 per 1,000 | 6 | 88.1% |
| Sefton 016C | 1,426 | 34.9 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.8% |
| Sefton 016D | 1,292 | 18.9 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.0% |
Your MP
- Bill EstersonLabourMP for Sefton Central
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 Formby1
Middle areas in Formby4
Towns near Formby6
Formby in brief
Formby is a town in Sefton, North West.
About 23,204 people lived in Formby in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £345,000 in 2025 across 414 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 48.5 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Formby was £345,000 in 2025.
Formby had 22,892 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Formby live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Formby, 93.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.