Maghull
TownTown in Sefton, North West.
Maghull is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Maghull 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 Maghull live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Maghull compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Maghull safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Maghull at a rate of 57.4 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, 107 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Maghull.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (598), other crime (203) and anti-social behaviour (142).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Maghull was 55.5 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 Maghull, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Maghull has no single figure. Of its 14 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 5: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 4 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Maghull
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sefton 017D | 1,412 | 25.2 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
| Sefton 018C | 1,560 | 68.8 per 1,000 | 8 | 93.7% |
| Sefton 018D | 1,285 | 41.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
| Sefton 018G | 1,469 | 48.5 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.7% |
| Sefton 018H | 1,687 | 110.0 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.8% |
| Sefton 019A | 1,406 | 51.7 per 1,000 | 5 | 100.0% |
| Sefton 019B | 1,493 | 37.9 per 1,000 | 8 | 100.0% |
| Sefton 019C | 1,640 | 51.9 per 1,000 | 8 | 98.2% |
| Sefton 019D | 1,532 | 74.5 per 1,000 | 7 | 97.5% |
| Sefton 020A | 1,280 | 27.3 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.8% |
| Sefton 020B | 1,437 | 38.4 per 1,000 | 7 | 100.0% |
| Sefton 020C | 1,413 | 25.4 per 1,000 | 9 | 95.8% |
| Sefton 020D | 1,376 | 65.5 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.0% |
| Sefton 020E | 1,242 | 29.8 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.8% |
Your MP
- Bill EstersonLabourMP for Sefton Central
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 Maghull1
Middle areas in Maghull3
Towns near Maghull6
Maghull in brief
Maghull is a town in Sefton, North West.
About 21,330 people lived in Maghull in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £245,000 in 2025 across 353 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 57.4 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Maghull was £245,000 in 2025.
Maghull had 20,367 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Maghull live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Maghull, 98.5% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.