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Lymm

Town

Town in Warrington, North West.

Lymm is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Lymm 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.

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Radon Affected Area by town

Worked out by Open Index · 2022

Under 1%90% or more

About 0% of people in Lymm live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.

Median sale price
£355,000
Joint 258th most expensive of 1,092
Worked out by Open Index
Population
11,547
325th least populated of 1,209
ONS Census 2021 · 2021
People in radon Affected Area squares
0%
UK 44%
Worked out by Open Index
Gigabit broadband coverage
96.3%
UK 87.8%
Ofcom · Jan 2026

How Lymm compares

Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.

LymmMiddle
Median sale price161 towns, North West · 2025
Median sale price: every town in North West161 areas from £95,000 to £700,000. The middle area is £222,000. Lymm is £355,000.
£355,000joint 10th most expensive
Population161 towns, North West · 2021
Population: every town in North West161 areas from 7,551 to 506,564. The middle area is 22,886. Lymm is 11,547.
11,54731st least populated
People in radon Affected Area squares161 towns, North West · 2022
People in radon Affected Area squares: every town in North West161 areas from 0.0% to 100.0%. The middle area is 29.0%. Lymm is 0.0%.
0%joint fewest people in radon Affected Areas
Gigabit broadband coverage161 towns, North West · Jan 2026
Gigabit broadband coverage: every town in North West161 areas from 35.0% to 99.6%. The middle area is 95.7%. Lymm is 96.3%.
96.3%joint 64th highest

Is Lymm safe? What police records show

In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Lymm at a rate of 40.1 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, 39 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Lymm.

In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (175), other crime (107) and anti-social behaviour (85).

A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Lymm was 30.4 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 Lymm, neighbourhood by neighbourhood

  • Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Lymm has no single figure. Of its 7 neighbourhoods with a rank:
  • Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
  • Decile 9: 3 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 3 neighbourhoods

English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.

Neighbourhoods in Lymm

NamePeople (census)Recorded crime per 1,000Deprivation decileGigabit broadband
Warrington 021A1,99827.8 per 1,0001097.3%
Warrington 021B1,86038.8 per 1,0001097.7%
Warrington 021C1,53772.3 per 1,000796.8%
Warrington 021D1,336101.0 per 1,000997.9%
Warrington 021E2,32132.1 per 1,0001093.8%
Warrington 021F2,12539.1 per 1,000991.7%
Warrington 021G1,48425.6 per 1,000998.5%

Your MP

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 Lymm1

Middle areas in Lymm1

Towns near Lymm6

Lymm in brief

Lymm is a town in Warrington, North West.

About 11,860 people lived in Lymm in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £355,000 in 2025 across 202 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 40.1 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).

The median price paid for a home in Lymm was £355,000 in 2025.

Lymm had 11,547 usual residents at the census.

About 0% of people in Lymm live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.

In Lymm, 96.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.