Is Bromborough, Merseyside a nice place to live?

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

What are the crime levels like in Bromborough?

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 Bromborough. 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 65
Port Sunlight 46
Spital 46
Bromborough Pool 41
Bromborough 33
Lower Bebington 31
Bebington 31
St Michael’s Hamlet 25
Brookhurst 17
Hooton 16

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Bromborough. 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 Bromborough 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 Eastham ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Eastham (Best) 24436/32845
Willaston & Thornton 23507/32845
Bebington 21453/32845
Mossley Hill 19163/32845
Bromborough 15768/32845
Cressington 15045/32845
Netherpool 11988/32845
Speke-Garston 10904/32845
Rock Ferry 9181/32845
St Michael's (Worst) 9019/32845
Reader Opinion:

Top 10 most deprived towns in England 2019

Your Health in Bromborough

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

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

Ward Average rank in England
Willaston & Thornton (Best) 18689/32845
Mossley Hill 9858/32845
Bebington 8816/32845
Eastham 8732/32845
Cressington 6184/32845
Netherpool 5958/32845
Bromborough 5334/32845
St Michael's 3596/32845
Rock Ferry 3161/32845
Speke-Garston (Worst) 1889/32845
Reader Opinion:

Hoylake: a level of purgatory dante couldn't describe

Deprivation in Bromborough

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 Bromborough. 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
Willaston & Thornton (Best) 24749/32845
Mossley Hill 19585/32845
Eastham 17809/32845
Bebington 16933/32845
Cressington 12098/32845
Bromborough 10207/32845
Netherpool 7737/32845
St Michael's 6924/32845
Rock Ferry 5878/32845
Speke-Garston (Worst) 2881/32845

Average rent in Bromborough

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Bromborough

If you are thinking of moving to Bromborough, 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.

How grim is your Postcode?