Is Maghull, Merseyside a nice place to live?

Is Maghull a nice place to live or is Maghull rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Maghull is on the up an up, it's time for a bit of reality. Cold hard statistics culled from the Police, the Indices of Deprivation and the latest census. Is Maghull truly a nice place to live, or are Ormskirk, Crosby and Kirkby a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Maghull?

Using the latest Police street crime figures (typically from 3 months ago) we have compiled a table of the most voilent Policing areas in and around Maghull. Naturally the more urban and more central areas will have a higher rate of crime, but often you can be surprised when that is not the case and that is the area you want to move to.
Policing Area Voilent Crimes
Netherton 86
Moss Side 40
Maghull 34
Holt Green 30
Bowker’s Green 24
Royal Oak 12
Homer Green 6
Town Green 5
Alt 2
Aughton 2

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Maghull. These statistics are published by the government every 2-3 years. They are a measure of how likely you are to be a victim of personal or material crime in an area, such as muggings or burglary. We've taken the rank average for wards in and around Maghull and compared them. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst.

You least likely to be a victim of crime in the Aughton Park ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Aughton Park (Best) 29796/32845
Bickerstaffe 26460/32845
Ravenmeols 25217/32845
Aughton and Downholland 25059/32845
Park 24759/32845
Sudell 23768/32845
Molyneux 18680/32845
Shevington 15729/32845
Whitefield 12009/32845
St Oswald (Worst) 7713/32845
Reader Opinion:

Burscough's Bad Breeding

Your Health in Maghull

If you are thinking of moving to Maghull, you want to know if the place is likely to put you on a downward spiral of ill health. We've taken the healh question from the latest census to find out and how Maghull compares to its neighbouring local authorities. People were asked to rate their current health from very bad to very good;

Town Very Bad Bad
Liverpool 2.08% 6.68%
Wirral 1.73% 5.77%
Sefton (Maghull) 1.62% 5.68%
West Lancashire 1.45% 4.86%

The English Indices of Deprivation also has health statistics for Maghull. They measures the risk of premature death and the impairment of quality of life through poor physical or mental health, lovely! We've collated an average rank for all the Lower Super Output Areas (LSOA) in each ward in and around Maghull. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst;

Ward Average rank in England
Aughton Park (Best) 23784/32845
Bickerstaffe 23032/32845
Aughton and Downholland 19743/32845
Ravenmeols 15016/32845
Sudell 11700/32845
Park 11673/32845
Molyneux 9694/32845
Shevington 2578/32845
St Oswald 2544/32845
Whitefield (Worst) 1633/32845
Reader Opinion:

Kirkby - the bastard cousin of Liverpool

Deprivation in Maghull

Using the English Indices of Deprivation statistics, we've collated the average Index of Multiple Deprivation rank of all the LSOAs in the wards in and around Maghull. In layman's terms, this is how rough the ward is based on mutiple measures of deprivation including; employment, income, health, crime, housing and outside space.

Ward Average rank in England
Aughton Park (Best) 30145/32845
Aughton and Downholland 23811/32845
Ravenmeols 23576/32845
Bickerstaffe 23284/32845
Park 21785/32845
Sudell 20730/32845
Molyneux 17409/32845
Shevington 6304/32845
St Oswald 4700/32845
Whitefield (Worst) 3862/32845

Average rent in Maghull

Every six months the Office for National statitics publishes a snapshot of rental costs. These statistics for Maghull are dated September 2021. They are split into three figures, the lower quartile, mean and upper quartile. If you recieve housing benefit or the housing benefit section of Universal Credit, the lower quartile is at the top limit of what would be affordable. The mean is the average you'd expect to pay for a rental property and the upper quartile is the average rental cost of the most expensive 25% of properties in Maghull.

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Maghull

If you are thinking of moving to Maghull, you'll want to know how much you can earn in a job in the town. The government publish regular statistics on gross weekly pay and pay per hour.

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