Runcorn
TownTown in Halton, North West.
Runcorn is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Runcorn 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 49% of people in Runcorn live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Runcorn compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Runcorn safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Runcorn at a rate of 91.4 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, 512 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Runcorn.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (2,688), other crime (1,228) and anti-social behaviour (535).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Runcorn was 101.5 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 Runcorn, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Runcorn has no single figure. Of its 42 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 17 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Runcorn
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Halton 009A | 2,090 | 109.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 76.8% |
| Halton 009B | 2,658 | 92.7 per 1,000 | 9 | 97.8% |
| Halton 009D | 1,424 | 21.8 per 1,000 | 8 | 100.0% |
| Halton 009E | 2,078 | 33.3 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
| Halton 010A | 1,728 | 71.3 per 1,000 | 1 | 93.8% |
| Halton 010B | 1,613 | 129.6 per 1,000 | 1 | 91.9% |
| Halton 010C | 1,574 | 190.0 per 1,000 | 2 | 95.4% |
| Halton 010D | 1,513 | 132.1 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Halton 010E | 1,242 | 168.0 per 1,000 | 1 | 98.7% |
| Halton 011A | 1,154 | 49.2 per 1,000 | 5 | 100.0% |
| Halton 011B | 1,199 | 24.3 per 1,000 | 6 | 100.0% |
| Halton 011C | 1,518 | 79.8 per 1,000 | 1 | 97.9% |
| Halton 011D | 1,371 | 94.4 per 1,000 | 4 | 100.0% |
| Halton 011E | 2,083 | 70.0 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.9% |
| Halton 012A | 1,836 | 39.0 per 1,000 | 5 | 96.4% |
| Halton 012B | 1,195 | 73.8 per 1,000 | 3 | 95.7% |
| Halton 012D | 1,375 | 94.2 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| Halton 012E | 1,588 | 236.8 per 1,000 | 1 | 88.3% |
| Halton 012F | 2,109 | 144.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 94.7% |
| Halton 012G | 1,270 | 54.8 per 1,000 | 4 | 89.1% |
| Halton 012H | 1,280 | 74.4 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.9% |
| Halton 013A | 1,531 | 73.4 per 1,000 | 2 | 96.5% |
| Halton 013B | 1,405 | 140.2 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.7% |
| Halton 013C | 1,617 | 120.2 per 1,000 | 1 | 96.3% |
| Halton 013D | 1,333 | 144.2 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Halton 013E | 1,825 | 80.5 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Halton 013F | 1,805 | 265.5 per 1,000 | 1 | 86.1% |
| Halton 014A | 1,319 | 59.2 per 1,000 | 3 | 98.5% |
| Halton 014B | 1,577 | 67.6 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.7% |
| Halton 014C | 1,246 | 151.8 per 1,000 | 1 | 97.8% |
| Halton 014D | 1,122 | 96.9 per 1,000 | 1 | 98.9% |
| Halton 014E | 1,189 | 62.2 per 1,000 | 6 | 98.7% |
| Halton 015A | 1,394 | 63.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 94.5% |
| Halton 015B | 1,681 | 124.2 per 1,000 | 1 | 97.6% |
| Halton 015C | 1,317 | 90.9 per 1,000 | 1 | 98.8% |
| Halton 015D | 1,270 | 96.7 per 1,000 | 1 | 98.9% |
| Halton 015E | 1,439 | 47.0 per 1,000 | 2 | 96.1% |
| Halton 016A | 1,207 | 10.1 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.8% |
| Halton 016B | 1,108 | 46.1 per 1,000 | 8 | 98.3% |
| Halton 016C | 1,215 | 24.2 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
| Halton 016D | 1,306 | 35.5 per 1,000 | 8 | 91.2% |
| Halton 016E | 1,413 | 21.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.5% |
Your MP
- Sarah PochinReform UKMP for Runcorn and Helsby
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 Runcorn1
Middle areas in Runcorn8
Towns near Runcorn6
Runcorn in brief
Runcorn is a town in Halton, North West.
About 63,373 people lived in Runcorn in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £181,000 in 2025 across 697 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 91.4 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Runcorn was £181,000 in 2025.
Runcorn had 61,641 usual residents at the census.
About 49% of people in Runcorn live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Runcorn, 96.1% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.