West Kirby
TownTown in Wirral, North West.
West Kirby is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for West Kirby 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 West Kirby live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How West Kirby compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is West Kirby safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in West Kirby at a rate of 48.4 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, 75 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in West Kirby.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (228), anti-social behaviour (136) and other crime (128).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in West Kirby was 41.7 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 West Kirby, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so West Kirby has no single figure. Of its 9 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 4 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in West Kirby
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wirral 026A | 1,586 | 47.9 per 1,000 | 8 | 86.6% |
| Wirral 026B | 1,637 | 28.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| Wirral 026C | 1,587 | 173.9 per 1,000 | 6 | 92.0% |
| Wirral 026D | 1,446 | 41.1 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.6% |
| Wirral 026E | 1,324 | 28.8 per 1,000 | 7 | 92.7% |
| Wirral 028A | 1,400 | 30.3 per 1,000 | 9 | 95.6% |
| Wirral 028B | 1,561 | 36.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.8% |
| Wirral 028C | 1,496 | 10.4 per 1,000 | 10 | 90.1% |
| Wirral 028D | 1,341 | 27.1 per 1,000 | 10 | 95.5% |
Your MP
- Matthew PatrickLabourMP for Wirral West
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 West Kirby1
Middle areas in West Kirby2
Towns near West Kirby6
West Kirby in brief
West Kirby is a town in Wirral, North West.
About 13,535 people lived in West Kirby in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £338,950 in 2025 across 259 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 48.4 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in West Kirby was £338,950 in 2025.
West Kirby had 13,383 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in West Kirby live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In West Kirby, 94.2% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.