Rixton and Woolston
WardEast Warrington. About 9,323 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 21 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 0% of people in Rixton and Woolston live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Rixton and Woolston compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Rixton and Woolston safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Rixton and Woolston at a rate of 50.3 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 74.6 per 1,000 people across Warrington.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 45 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Rixton and Woolston.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (173), other crime (90) and anti-social behaviour (47).
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.
Figures for the whole of Warrington
These figures are published for the whole of Warrington, not for each ward, so they describe all of Warrington and not Rixton and Woolston alone. See Warrington
Rixton and Woolston in brief
Rixton and Woolston had 9,211 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Rixton and Woolston live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Rixton and Woolston, 95.0% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Rixton and Woolston, 2.0% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.