Widnes
TownTown in Halton, North West.
Widnes is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Widnes 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 Widnes, 96.6% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
How Widnes compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Widnes safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Widnes at a rate of 90.1 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, 434 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Widnes.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (2,500), other crime (1,152) and anti-social behaviour (634).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Widnes was 90.1 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 Widnes, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Widnes has no single figure. Of its 35 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 8 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 6 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 5 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Widnes
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Halton 001A | 2,908 | 45.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 95.6% |
| Halton 001B | 2,882 | 49.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 90.9% |
| Halton 001C | 1,599 | 18.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.0% |
| Halton 001D | 1,309 | 54.8 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.7% |
| Halton 002A | 2,707 | 47.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 93.8% |
| Halton 002B | 1,501 | 20.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.8% |
| Halton 002C | 2,789 | 36.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 94.3% |
| Halton 002D | 1,182 | 27.8 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
| Halton 002E | 1,274 | 78.5 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.4% |
| Halton 003A | 2,016 | 60.3 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.4% |
| Halton 003B | 1,082 | 30.5 per 1,000 | 8 | 98.7% |
| Halton 003C | 1,776 | 86.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 89.0% |
| Halton 003D | 1,448 | 54.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 97.0% |
| Halton 003E | 1,125 | 36.5 per 1,000 | 6 | 100.0% |
| Halton 004A | 1,729 | 84.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.5% |
| Halton 004B | 1,590 | 62.1 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.6% |
| Halton 004C | 1,107 | 99.5 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.6% |
| Halton 004D | 1,425 | 103.9 per 1,000 | 1 | 93.7% |
| Halton 004E | 1,463 | 103.1 per 1,000 | 1 | 97.2% |
| Halton 005A | 1,785 | 97.0 per 1,000 | 4 | 94.1% |
| Halton 005B | 1,918 | 50.1 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.7% |
| Halton 005C | 1,556 | 100.6 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Halton 005D | 1,345 | 94.9 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.8% |
| Halton 005E | 1,802 | 75.7 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.9% |
| Halton 006A | 1,521 | 43.2 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.9% |
| Halton 006B | 1,654 | 115.6 per 1,000 | 3 | 98.6% |
| Halton 006C | 1,445 | 70.1 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.8% |
| Halton 006D | 1,780 | 101.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 97.2% |
| Halton 006E | 1,492 | 76.9 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.3% |
| Halton 007A | 1,852 | 435.4 per 1,000 | 1 | 86.7% |
| Halton 007B | 1,842 | 134.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.2% |
| Halton 007C | 1,916 | 186.9 per 1,000 | 1 | 98.2% |
| Halton 007D | 2,268 | 263.3 per 1,000 | 1 | 91.6% |
| Halton 008A | 1,696 | 35.7 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.7% |
| Halton 008D | 1,475 | 79.4 per 1,000 | 4 | 98.9% |
Your MP
- Derek TwiggLabourMP for Widnes and Halewood
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 Widnes1
Middle areas in Widnes7
Towns near Widnes6
Widnes in brief
Widnes is a town in Halton, North West.
About 60,975 people lived in Widnes in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £195,500 in 2025 across 751 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 90.1 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Widnes was £195,500 in 2025.
Widnes had 59,938 usual residents at the census.
In Widnes, 96.6% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Widnes, 4.1% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.