Southport
TownTown in Sefton, North West.
Southport is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Southport 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 Southport live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Southport compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Southport safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Southport at a rate of 79.6 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, 640 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Southport.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (3,273), other crime (1,498) and anti-social behaviour (768).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Southport was 83.6 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 Southport, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Southport has no single figure. Of its 62 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 10 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 7 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 9 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 10 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 7 neighbourhoods
- 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 Southport
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sefton 001A | 1,389 | 36.1 per 1,000 | 5 | 98.8% |
| Sefton 001B | 1,414 | 54.1 per 1,000 | 6 | 100.0% |
| Sefton 001C | 1,160 | 15.9 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.8% |
| Sefton 001D | 1,553 | 63.0 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.4% |
| Sefton 001E | 1,165 | 29.5 per 1,000 | 8 | 100.0% |
| Sefton 002A | 1,372 | 53.5 per 1,000 | 8 | 91.1% |
| Sefton 002B | 1,370 | 32.8 per 1,000 | 8 | 100.0% |
| Sefton 002C | 1,357 | 78.7 per 1,000 | 8 | 86.9% |
| Sefton 002D | 1,361 | 28.8 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.1% |
| Sefton 002E | 1,388 | 13.6 per 1,000 | 7 | 93.7% |
| Sefton 003A | 1,742 | 87.0 per 1,000 | 3 | 60.4% |
| Sefton 003B | 1,445 | 77.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 54.5% |
| Sefton 003C | 1,500 | 20.3 per 1,000 | 6 | 37.8% |
| Sefton 003D | 1,545 | 58.7 per 1,000 | 5 | 47.9% |
| Sefton 003E | 1,293 | 19.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.7% |
| Sefton 004A | 1,830 | 102.6 per 1,000 | 3 | 78.1% |
| Sefton 004B | 1,697 | 97.9 per 1,000 | 1 | 68.6% |
| Sefton 004D | 1,491 | 163.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 90.5% |
| Sefton 004F | 1,182 | 182.6 per 1,000 | 1 | 76.1% |
| Sefton 004G | 1,171 | 242.9 per 1,000 | 2 | 77.9% |
| Sefton 004H | 1,126 | 591.1 per 1,000 | 1 | 77.5% |
| Sefton 004I | 1,029 | 910.2 per 1,000 | 1 | 82.8% |
| Sefton 005A | 1,382 | 91.6 per 1,000 | 1 | 92.9% |
| Sefton 005B | 1,644 | 37.1 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.3% |
| Sefton 005C | 1,494 | 43.8 per 1,000 | 4 | 95.6% |
| Sefton 005D | 1,430 | 38.1 per 1,000 | 6 | 96.4% |
| Sefton 005E | 1,500 | 40.3 per 1,000 | 6 | 93.3% |
| Sefton 006A | 1,527 | 49.0 per 1,000 | 4 | 71.9% |
| Sefton 006B | 1,560 | 41.8 per 1,000 | 6 | 96.1% |
| Sefton 006C | 1,479 | 130.3 per 1,000 | 3 | 83.1% |
| Sefton 006D | 1,480 | 46.3 per 1,000 | 5 | 93.3% |
| Sefton 006E | 1,326 | 64.3 per 1,000 | 7 | 96.9% |
| Sefton 007A | 1,459 | 87.6 per 1,000 | 5 | 70.6% |
| Sefton 007B | 2,188 | 90.8 per 1,000 | 3 | 84.7% |
| Sefton 007C | 1,764 | 92.1 per 1,000 | 3 | 89.2% |
| Sefton 007D | 1,849 | 56.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 90.8% |
| Sefton 007E | 1,577 | 33.2 per 1,000 | 3 | 94.9% |
| Sefton 008A | 1,343 | 86.7 per 1,000 | 7 | 63.3% |
| Sefton 008B | 1,496 | 77.0 per 1,000 | 4 | 85.6% |
| Sefton 008C | 1,587 | 168.1 per 1,000 | 5 | 83.3% |
| Sefton 008D | 1,521 | 37.5 per 1,000 | 3 | 80.9% |
| Sefton 008E | 1,680 | 72.0 per 1,000 | 3 | 77.6% |
| Sefton 008F | 2,048 | 60.9 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.6% |
| Sefton 009A | 1,438 | 45.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 63.5% |
| Sefton 009B | 1,649 | 30.3 per 1,000 | 6 | 71.9% |
| Sefton 009C | 1,605 | 118.0 per 1,000 | 5 | 63.1% |
| Sefton 009D | 1,521 | 39.3 per 1,000 | 6 | 34.1% |
| Sefton 009E | 1,559 | 16.8 per 1,000 | 7 | 49.9% |
| Sefton 009F | 1,504 | 40.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 56.4% |
| Sefton 010A | 1,483 | 32.1 per 1,000 | 5 | 86.5% |
| Sefton 010B | 1,423 | 28.8 per 1,000 | 5 | 64.4% |
| Sefton 010C | 1,515 | 26.2 per 1,000 | 8 | 47.9% |
| Sefton 010D | 1,401 | 27.2 per 1,000 | 10 | 6.4% |
| Sefton 010E | 1,370 | 65.4 per 1,000 | 4 | 6.2% |
| Sefton 011A | 1,611 | 50.8 per 1,000 | 5 | 59.1% |
| Sefton 011B | 1,459 | 66.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 76.7% |
| Sefton 011C | 1,821 | 50.5 per 1,000 | 4 | 14.6% |
| Sefton 011D | 1,690 | 100.6 per 1,000 | 6 | 9.6% |
| Sefton 012A | 1,322 | 36.8 per 1,000 | 9 | 78.5% |
| Sefton 012B | 1,444 | 32.1 per 1,000 | 8 | 9.7% |
| Sefton 012C | 1,515 | 22.1 per 1,000 | 8 | 97.1% |
| Sefton 012D | 1,739 | 41.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 0.0% |
Your MP
- Patrick HurleyLabourMP for Southport
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 Southport2
Middle areas in Southport12
Towns near Southport6
Southport in brief
Southport is a town in Sefton, North West.
About 96,419 people lived in Southport in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £220,000 in 2025 across 1,434 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 79.6 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Southport was £220,000 in 2025.
Southport had 94,438 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Southport live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Southport, 73.1% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.