Bidston and St James
WardNorth Wirral. About 16,692 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 7.0 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 0% of people in Bidston and St James live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Bidston and St James compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Bidston and St James safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Bidston and St James at a rate of 140.4 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 78.9 per 1,000 people across Wirral.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 186 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Bidston and St James.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (846), other crime (435) and anti-social behaviour (280).
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 Wirral
These figures are published for the whole of Wirral, not for each ward, so they describe all of Wirral and not Bidston and St James alone. See Wirral
Bidston and St James in brief
Bidston and St James had 15,688 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Bidston and St James live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Bidston and St James, 97.4% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Bidston and St James, 5.3% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.