Is Formby, Merseyside a nice place to live?

Is Formby a nice place to live or is Formby rough? Forget local estate agents sales speil and local councillors who say that Formby 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 Formby truly a nice place to live, or are Bootle, Crosby and Maghull a lot better? Time to find out.

What are the crime levels like in Formby?

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 Formby. 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
Formby 37
Little Altcar 32
Freshfield 25
Little Crosby 20
Ainsdale 11
Lady Green 5
Carr Houses 2
Ince Blundell 2
Great Altcar 1
Downholland Cross 0

The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Formby. 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 Formby 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 Harington ward.

Ward Average rank in England
Harington (Best) 25506/32845
Ravenmeols 25217/32845
Aughton and Downholland 25059/32845
Blundellsands 22418/32845
Birkdale 22134/32845
Ainsdale 20649/32845
Halsall 19127/32845
Victoria 18298/32845
Manor 17509/32845
St Oswald (Worst) 7713/32845
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Your Health in Formby

If you are thinking of moving to Formby, 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 Formby 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 (Formby) 1.62% 5.68%
West Lancashire 1.45% 4.86%

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

Ward Average rank in England
Halsall (Best) 23556/32845
Aughton and Downholland 19743/32845
Harington 16639/32845
Blundellsands 15647/32845
Ravenmeols 15016/32845
Victoria 13286/32845
Ainsdale 12861/32845
Birkdale 11420/32845
Manor 10031/32845
St Oswald (Worst) 2544/32845
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Deprivation in Formby

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 Formby. 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
Harington (Best) 27475/32845
Aughton and Downholland 23811/32845
Ravenmeols 23576/32845
Blundellsands 22893/32845
Victoria 19558/32845
Halsall 19343/32845
Ainsdale 18557/32845
Birkdale 18097/32845
Manor 15913/32845
St Oswald (Worst) 4700/32845

Average rent in Formby

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

Weekly Gross Pay and Hourly Pay in Formby

If you are thinking of moving to Formby, 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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