Greasby
TownTown in Wirral, North West.
Greasby is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Greasby 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 Greasby live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Greasby compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Greasby safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Greasby at a rate of 23.2 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, 13 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Greasby.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (92), other crime (45) and anti-social behaviour (29).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Greasby was 24.9 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 Greasby, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Greasby has no single figure. Of its 7 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 8: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 4 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Greasby
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wirral 017C | 1,346 | 24.1 per 1,000 | 8 | 100.0% |
| Wirral 023A | 1,190 | 16.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| Wirral 023B | 1,320 | 25.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 87.6% |
| Wirral 023C | 1,348 | 16.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.8% |
| Wirral 023D | 1,510 | 19.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.7% |
| Wirral 023E | 1,414 | 35.7 per 1,000 | 8 | 97.2% |
| Wirral 023F | 1,294 | 31.7 per 1,000 | 8 | 95.2% |
Your MP
- Matthew PatrickLabourMP for Wirral West
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 Greasby1
Middle areas in Greasby1
Towns near Greasby6
Greasby in brief
Greasby is a town in Wirral, North West.
About 9,191 people lived in Greasby in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £275,000 in 2025 across 152 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 23.2 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Greasby was £275,000 in 2025.
Greasby had 9,175 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Greasby live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Greasby, 98.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.