Heswall
TownTown in Wirral, North West.
Heswall is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Heswall 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 Heswall live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Heswall compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Heswall safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Heswall at a rate of 32.2 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, 79 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Heswall.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (438), other crime (193) and anti-social behaviour (107).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Heswall was 31.1 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 Heswall, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Heswall has no single figure. Of its 20 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 7 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 7 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Heswall
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wirral 033A | 1,693 | 26.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 96.0% |
| Wirral 033B | 1,633 | 35.2 per 1,000 | 10 | 90.6% |
| Wirral 033C | 1,445 | 34.0 per 1,000 | 9 | 95.4% |
| Wirral 033D | 1,834 | 51.1 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.6% |
| Wirral 034A | 1,253 | 12.7 per 1,000 | 9 | 94.1% |
| Wirral 034B | 1,517 | 45.3 per 1,000 | 8 | 87.9% |
| Wirral 034C | 1,540 | 28.5 per 1,000 | 9 | 97.3% |
| Wirral 034D | 1,574 | 20.5 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.3% |
| Wirral 034E | 1,450 | 19.0 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.8% |
| Wirral 037A | 1,526 | 107.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 84.2% |
| Wirral 037B | 1,453 | 27.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 96.7% |
| Wirral 037C | 1,595 | 28.4 per 1,000 | 8 | 92.6% |
| Wirral 037D | 1,313 | 22.8 per 1,000 | 6 | 87.7% |
| Wirral 037E | 1,638 | 56.5 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.1% |
| Wirral 040A | 1,489 | 17.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.9% |
| Wirral 040B | 1,454 | 18.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 88.3% |
| Wirral 040C | 1,470 | 20.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| Wirral 040D | 1,548 | 47.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 78.0% |
| Wirral 040E | 1,515 | 11.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 87.7% |
| Wirral 040F | 1,363 | 19.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 73.4% |
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 Heswall2
Middle areas in Heswall4
Towns near Heswall6
Heswall in brief
Heswall is a town in Wirral, North West.
About 29,319 people lived in Heswall in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £320,000 in 2025 across 480 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 32.2 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Heswall was £320,000 in 2025.
Heswall had 29,082 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Heswall live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Heswall, 92.9% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.