So you are thinking of moving to Bootle in Merseyside? You've found some estate agents and they have told you what you wanted to hear. You've read some speil by a local councillor who says that Bootle is on the up an up? Now it's time for a bit of reality. Cold hard statistics culled from the Police, the Indices of Deprivation and the latest census. Is Bootle the land of milk and honey or are Crosby, Maghull and Wallasey a lot better? Time to find out.
Crime in Bootle
Using the latest Police street crime figures for the month of July 2020 we have compiled a table of the most voilent Policing areas in and around Bootle. 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.
| Polcing Area | Voilent Crimes |
|---|---|
| Litherland | 167 |
| Buckley Hill | 106 |
| Waterloo Park | 85 |
| Great Crosby | 77 |
| Netherton | 77 |
| Waterloo | 52 |
| Crosby | 52 |
| Bootle | 30 |
| Blundellsands | 18 |
| Brighton le Sands | 18 |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Bootle. These statitics 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 collated an average rank for all the Lower Super Output Areas (LSOA) in each ward in and around Bootle. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst.
| Ward | Average rank in England |
|---|---|
| Church (Best) | 10248/32845 |
| Litherland | 10442/32845 |
| Netherton and Orrell | 14362/32845 |
| Victoria | 18298/32845 |
| Blundellsands | 22418/32845 |
| Linacre | 3226/32845 |
| St Oswald | 7713/32845 |
| Ford | 8529/32845 |
| Warbreck | 8985/32845 |
| Derby (Worst) | 9204/32845 |
West Kirby: The Jekyll and Hyde of Wirral
Your Health in Bootle
If you are thinking of moving to Bootle, 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 Bootle compares to its neighbouring local authorities. People were asked to rate their current health from very bad to very good;
| Local Authority | Very Bad | Bad | Fair | Good | Very Good |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liverpool | 2.08% | 6.68% | 14.03% | 30.47% | 46.73% |
| Wirral | 1.73% | 5.77% | 14.29% | 31.92% | 46.29% |
| Sefton (Bootle) | 1.62% | 5.68% | 14.84% | 32.55% | 45.32% |
| West Lancashire | 1.45% | 4.86% | 13.37% | 32.73% | 47.59% |
The English Indices of Deprivation also has health statistics for Bootle. 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 Bootle. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst;
| Ward | Average rank in England |
|---|---|
| Victoria (Best) | 13286/32845 |
| Derby | 1513/32845 |
| Blundellsands | 15647/32845 |
| Warbreck | 2111/32845 |
| St Oswald | 2544/32845 |
| Ford | 3074/32845 |
| Litherland | 3200/32845 |
| Linacre | 355/32845 |
| Netherton and Orrell | 3757/32845 |
| Church (Worst) | 4870/32845 |
One fine Sunday in Merseyside
Deprivation in Bootle
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 Bootle. 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 |
|---|---|
| Victoria (Best) | 19558/32845 |
| Blundellsands | 22893/32845 |
| Derby | 2392/32845 |
| Linacre | 336/32845 |
| Warbreck | 4577/32845 |
| St Oswald | 4700/32845 |
| Ford | 5385/32845 |
| Litherland | 5460/32845 |
| Netherton and Orrell | 6456/32845 |
| Church (Worst) | 6595/32845 |
One fine Sunday in Merseyside
West Kirby: The Jekyll and Hyde of Wirral
Birkenhead: full of losers and utterly ruthless backstabbers
Bootle – The land that time and government forgot
Birkenhead: the roid ridden a***hole of merseyside
Bootle – The Sh*thole of Merseyside
Liverpool: A sort of Purgatory for Individuality
Kirkby – the ******* cousin of Liverpool
St Helens – A sordid little grief hole