Wallasey
TownTown in Wirral, North West.
Wallasey is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Wallasey 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 Wallasey live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Wallasey compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Wallasey safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Wallasey 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, 609 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Wallasey.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (3,291), other crime (1,161) and anti-social behaviour (894).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Wallasey was 80.8 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 Wallasey, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Wallasey has no single figure. Of its 56 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 16 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 8 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 7 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 8 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 8 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 2 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Wallasey
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wirral 001A | 1,653 | 46.7 per 1,000 | 3 | 95.2% |
| Wirral 001B | 1,240 | 86.6 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.8% |
| Wirral 001C | 1,556 | 35.7 per 1,000 | 4 | 97.2% |
| Wirral 001D | 1,595 | 134.7 per 1,000 | 3 | 77.1% |
| Wirral 001E | 1,551 | 140.6 per 1,000 | 1 | 85.0% |
| Wirral 002A | 1,522 | 68.4 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Wirral 002B | 1,564 | 48.2 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| Wirral 002C | 1,702 | 70.7 per 1,000 | 3 | 94.9% |
| Wirral 002D | 1,498 | 60.7 per 1,000 | 4 | 97.6% |
| Wirral 002E | 1,319 | 42.5 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.8% |
| Wirral 003A | 1,683 | 45.7 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.6% |
| Wirral 003B | 1,410 | 38.8 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.2% |
| Wirral 003C | 1,474 | 58.9 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.7% |
| Wirral 003D | 1,561 | 87.1 per 1,000 | 4 | 98.5% |
| Wirral 003E | 1,486 | 35.3 per 1,000 | 7 | 100.0% |
| Wirral 004A | 1,162 | 21.0 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.8% |
| Wirral 004B | 1,513 | 42.3 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.8% |
| Wirral 004C | 1,317 | 30.8 per 1,000 | 7 | 97.9% |
| Wirral 004D | 1,397 | 10.7 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
| Wirral 004E | 1,418 | 38.2 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.8% |
| Wirral 004F | 1,491 | 34.4 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.9% |
| Wirral 005A | 1,471 | 146.0 per 1,000 | 1 | 89.2% |
| Wirral 005B | 1,548 | 155.7 per 1,000 | 2 | 95.9% |
| Wirral 005C | 1,495 | 95.0 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.7% |
| Wirral 005D | 1,394 | 71.3 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.2% |
| Wirral 005E | 1,430 | 210.0 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.7% |
| Wirral 006A | 1,927 | 25.6 per 1,000 | 7 | 94.8% |
| Wirral 006B | 1,621 | 61.6 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.4% |
| Wirral 006C | 2,020 | 80.7 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.6% |
| Wirral 006D | 1,478 | 44.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.4% |
| Wirral 007A | 1,439 | 45.2 per 1,000 | 5 | 98.5% |
| Wirral 007B | 1,476 | 26.0 per 1,000 | 6 | 91.5% |
| Wirral 007C | 1,544 | 88.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 98.3% |
| Wirral 007D | 1,675 | 180.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 97.0% |
| Wirral 007E | 1,486 | 51.8 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.8% |
| Wirral 008A | 1,418 | 94.2 per 1,000 | 1 | 91.6% |
| Wirral 008B | 1,313 | 127.7 per 1,000 | 1 | 98.6% |
| Wirral 008C | 1,367 | 288.6 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.2% |
| Wirral 008D | 1,388 | 93.8 per 1,000 | 1 | 98.6% |
| Wirral 008E | 1,465 | 155.9 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.5% |
| Wirral 009A | 1,723 | 110.8 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.9% |
| Wirral 009B | 1,845 | 65.7 per 1,000 | 4 | 96.3% |
| Wirral 009C | 1,407 | 123.3 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.3% |
| Wirral 009D | 1,416 | 75.7 per 1,000 | 1 | 97.4% |
| Wirral 010C | 1,706 | 151.2 per 1,000 | 1 | 63.4% |
| Wirral 010D | 1,743 | 132.1 per 1,000 | 1 | 97.9% |
| Wirral 010E | 1,588 | 64.2 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.5% |
| Wirral 012A | 1,664 | 84.3 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.6% |
| Wirral 012B | 1,472 | 81.2 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.7% |
| Wirral 012C | 2,099 | 34.1 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.9% |
| Wirral 012D | 1,524 | 104.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 98.0% |
| Wirral 012E | 1,399 | 67.0 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Wirral 013C | 1,526 | 33.8 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.6% |
| Wirral 013D | 1,409 | 37.3 per 1,000 | 4 | 95.5% |
| Wirral 017A | 1,445 | 25.3 per 1,000 | 8 | 98.6% |
| Wirral 017B | 1,577 | 22.4 per 1,000 | 7 | 100.0% |
Your MP
- Dame Angela EagleLabourMP for Wallasey
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Council1
Postcode districts covering Wallasey3
Middle areas in Wallasey12
Towns near Wallasey6
Wallasey in brief
Wallasey is a town in Wirral, North West.
About 87,335 people lived in Wallasey 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 1,298 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 Wallasey was £190,000 in 2025.
Wallasey had 85,619 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Wallasey live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Wallasey, 96.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.