Is Bebington, Merseyside a nice place to live?

Is Bebington a nice place to live or is Bebington rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Bebington 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 Bebington truly a nice place to live, or are Birkenhead, Bromborough and Heswall a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Bebington?

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 Bebington. 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
New Ferry 55
Spital 43
Port Sunlight 42
Bromborough 38
Bromborough Pool 37
Lower Bebington 33
Bebington 33
Higher Bebington 23
St Michael’s Hamlet 20
Storeton 0

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Bebington. 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 Bebington 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 Clatterbridge ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Clatterbridge (Best) 29256/32845
Pensby and Thingwall 26798/32845
Eastham 24436/32845
Bebington 21453/32845
Prenton 15869/32845
Bromborough 15768/32845
Oxton 13363/32845
Rock Ferry 9181/32845
St Michael's 9019/32845
Birkenhead and Tranmere (Worst) 4830/32845
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Your Health in Bebington

If you are thinking of moving to Bebington, 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 Bebington 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 (Bebington) 1.73% 5.77%
Knowsley 2.18% 7.29%
Halton 1.7% 6.15%

The English Indices of Deprivation also has health statistics for Bebington. 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 Bebington. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst;

Ward Average rank in England
Clatterbridge (Best) 11846/32845
Pensby and Thingwall 11087/32845
Bebington 8816/32845
Eastham 8732/32845
Prenton 6424/32845
Bromborough 5334/32845
Oxton 5224/32845
St Michael's 3596/32845
Rock Ferry 3161/32845
Birkenhead and Tranmere (Worst) 804/32845
Reader Opinion:

Birkenhead, I lived on Beechwood for a while and it was just shocking

Deprivation in Bebington

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 Bebington. 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
Clatterbridge (Best) 23669/32845
Pensby and Thingwall 20711/32845
Eastham 17809/32845
Bebington 16933/32845
Prenton 12173/32845
Oxton 12023/32845
Bromborough 10207/32845
St Michael's 6924/32845
Rock Ferry 5878/32845
Birkenhead and Tranmere (Worst) 1808/32845

Average rent in Bebington

Every six months the Office for National statitics publishes a snapshot of rental costs. These statistics for Bebington 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 Bebington.

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Bebington

If you are thinking of moving to Bebington, 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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