Crosby
TownTown in Sefton, North West.
Crosby is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Crosby 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.
Gigabit coverage by town
Connected Nations (Ofcom) · January 2026
In Crosby, 97.9% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
How Crosby compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Crosby safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Crosby at a rate of 73.4 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, 343 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Crosby.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,600), other crime (672) and anti-social behaviour (493).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Crosby was 71.1 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 Crosby, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Crosby has no single figure. Of its 35 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 5 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 Crosby
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sefton 021A | 1,353 | 73.7 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| Sefton 021B | 1,347 | 70.7 per 1,000 | 3 | 98.1% |
| Sefton 021C | 1,376 | 26.5 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.1% |
| Sefton 021E | 1,567 | 104.6 per 1,000 | 8 | 98.3% |
| Sefton 021F | 1,620 | 111.2 per 1,000 | 4 | 98.6% |
| Sefton 022A | 1,433 | 70.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 91.5% |
| Sefton 022B | 1,366 | 12.1 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| Sefton 022C | 1,361 | 27.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.7% |
| Sefton 022D | 1,474 | 198.7 per 1,000 | 6 | 93.0% |
| Sefton 022E | 1,427 | 32.5 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.9% |
| Sefton 022F | 1,304 | 29.2 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.8% |
| Sefton 024C | 1,050 | 60.7 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.1% |
| Sefton 024D | 1,181 | 78.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Sefton 025A | 1,256 | 65.3 per 1,000 | 9 | 90.2% |
| Sefton 025B | 1,307 | 35.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| Sefton 025C | 1,578 | 114.0 per 1,000 | 6 | 90.9% |
| Sefton 025D | 1,772 | 30.3 per 1,000 | 7 | 100.0% |
| Sefton 025E | 1,356 | 23.5 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.8% |
| Sefton 025F | 1,543 | 18.0 per 1,000 | 7 | 100.0% |
| Sefton 028A | 1,541 | 35.8 per 1,000 | 7 | 97.2% |
| Sefton 028B | 1,461 | 46.2 per 1,000 | 6 | 95.9% |
| Sefton 028C | 1,531 | 71.7 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.9% |
| Sefton 028D | 1,386 | 50.7 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.8% |
| Sefton 028E | 1,495 | 49.7 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.7% |
| Sefton 030A | 1,595 | 48.1 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.7% |
| Sefton 030B | 1,581 | 120.8 per 1,000 | 3 | 98.0% |
| Sefton 030C | 1,536 | 81.9 per 1,000 | 2 | 98.5% |
| Sefton 030D | 1,506 | 56.1 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.9% |
| Sefton 030E | 1,471 | 34.2 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.9% |
| Sefton 032A | 1,322 | 128.7 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.9% |
| Sefton 032B | 1,446 | 117.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 97.5% |
| Sefton 032C | 1,572 | 145.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.8% |
| Sefton 032D | 1,494 | 63.4 per 1,000 | 5 | 92.2% |
| Sefton 034A | 1,414 | 101.0 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.7% |
| Sefton 034C | 1,479 | 183.1 per 1,000 | 1 | 96.0% |
Your MP
- Peter DowdLabourMP for Bootle
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 Crosby3
Middle areas in Crosby8
Towns near Crosby6
Crosby in brief
Crosby is a town in Sefton, North West.
About 51,367 people lived in Crosby in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £259,998 in 2025 across 724 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 73.4 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Crosby was £259,998 in 2025.
Crosby had 50,218 usual residents at the census.
In Crosby, 97.9% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Crosby, 3.5% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.