Litherland
TownTown in Sefton, North West.
Litherland is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Litherland 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 Litherland live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Litherland compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Litherland safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Litherland at a rate of 100.5 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, 162 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Litherland.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (825), other crime (310) and anti-social behaviour (224).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Litherland was 94.8 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 Litherland, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Litherland has no single figure. Of its 12 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 6 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Litherland
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sefton 024B | 1,288 | 154.1 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.9% |
| Sefton 031A | 1,318 | 70.7 per 1,000 | 6 | 92.4% |
| Sefton 031B | 1,386 | 131.8 per 1,000 | 1 | 98.1% |
| Sefton 031C | 1,279 | 43.8 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.8% |
| Sefton 031D | 1,596 | 52.5 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.6% |
| Sefton 031E | 1,278 | 88.4 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.8% |
| Sefton 032E | 2,077 | 106.7 per 1,000 | 2 | 98.8% |
| Sefton 033A | 1,386 | 85.3 per 1,000 | 4 | 98.3% |
| Sefton 033B | 1,509 | 54.9 per 1,000 | 6 | 100.0% |
| Sefton 034D | 1,789 | 203.1 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.6% |
| Sefton 034E | 1,554 | 115.5 per 1,000 | 1 | 95.4% |
| Sefton 036E | 1,452 | 126.5 per 1,000 | 1 | 94.4% |
Your MP
- Peter DowdLabourMP for Bootle
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 Litherland1
Middle areas in Litherland2
Towns near Litherland6
Litherland in brief
Litherland is a town in Sefton, North West.
About 19,117 people lived in Litherland in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £190,000 in 2025 across 190 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 100.5 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Litherland was £190,000 in 2025.
Litherland had 18,752 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Litherland live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Litherland, 98.0% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.