Haydock
TownTown in St. Helens, North West.
Haydock is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Haydock 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 77% of people in Haydock live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Haydock compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Haydock safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Haydock at a rate of 70.2 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, 104 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Haydock.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (514), other crime (226) and criminal damage and arson (111).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Haydock was 80.8 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 Haydock, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Haydock has no single figure. Of its 11 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Haydock
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| St. Helens 003A | 1,399 | 55.4 per 1,000 | 8 | 88.2% |
| St. Helens 005A | 1,423 | 82.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 97.6% |
| St. Helens 005B | 1,271 | 135.6 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.2% |
| St. Helens 005C | 1,420 | 95.7 per 1,000 | 4 | 91.4% |
| St. Helens 005D | 1,651 | 80.4 per 1,000 | 2 | 95.4% |
| St. Helens 006A | 1,557 | 68.5 per 1,000 | 4 | 98.7% |
| St. Helens 006B | 1,446 | 88.5 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| St. Helens 006C | 1,567 | 26.2 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
| St. Helens 006D | 1,228 | 42.4 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.8% |
| St. Helens 008D | 1,450 | 96.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.5% |
| St. Helens 008G | 1,205 | 21.6 per 1,000 | 7 | 100.0% |
Your MP
- David BainesLabourMP for St Helens North
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 Haydock1
Middle areas in Haydock2
Towns near Haydock6
Haydock in brief
Haydock is a town in St. Helens, North West.
About 16,421 people lived in Haydock in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £174,000 in 2025 across 200 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 70.2 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Haydock was £174,000 in 2025.
Haydock had 16,143 usual residents at the census.
About 77% of people in Haydock live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Haydock, 97.9% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.