Crime & emergency services · Higher than most
Drugs
60
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Police.uk street-level crime and outcomes · 2026-06
Town guide · Town · England
Explore house prices and housing, home energy and crime and safety in Widnes. This local area guide brings together 641 published figures for this town in England, with the source and date shown for each.
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£95 below Average across published towns and cities in England
1,363.881 above Average across published towns and cities in England
£109,803 below Average across published towns and cities in England
20.6 percentage points below Average across published towns and cities in England
£63 below Average across published towns and cities in England
£190 below Average across published towns and cities in England
7.6 percentage points below Average across published towns and cities in England
8.2 percentage points below Average across published towns and cities in England
£91,968 below Average across published towns and cities in England
£92,078 below Average across published towns and cities in England
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Figures in the highest or lowest tenth of their published comparison group. Higher and lower describe the number only, not whether it is better or worse.
Crime & emergency services · Higher than most
60
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Police.uk street-level crime and outcomes · 2026-06
People & households · Lower than most
10.1%
Among the lowest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Census 2021 · Census 2021
People & households · Lower than most
16.9%
Among the lowest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Census 2021 · Census 2021
People & households · Higher than most
91.3%
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Census 2021 · Census 2021
People & households · Higher than most
54.2%
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Census 2021 · Census 2021
People & households · Lower than most
7.9%
Among the lowest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Census 2021 · Census 2021
People & households · Lower than most
0.8%
Among the lowest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Census 2021 · Census 2021
People & households · Lower than most
6.8%
Among the lowest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Census 2021 · Census 2021
Income, work & local economy · Lower than most
1.2%
Among the lowest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Claimant Count via Nomis · 2026-07
Planning, buildings & heritage · Higher than most
850 m
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Planning Data platform · 2026-10-02
Health & care · Higher than most
34.7%
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Quality and Outcomes Framework · 2024-25
Health & care · Lower than most
0.5%
Among the lowest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Quality and Outcomes Framework · 2024-25
Health & care · Lower than most
5,198
Among the lowest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Quality and Outcomes Framework · 2024-25
Health & care · Higher than most
6
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Care Quality Commission register · 01 September 2026
Transport & getting around · Higher than most
222
Among the highest 10% of towns and cities in England.
Street Manager roadworks open data · 2026-07
Every figure belongs to one of these groups, so you always know whether you are reading about the whole place, a neighbourhood, or the wider council area.
70
Whole town
Totals and figures for the town boundary
68
Neighbourhood range
Lowest, median and highest across local areas
405
Around the centre
A representative location in the town
98
Wider council area
Named council areas around the town
The small numbers after figure labels refer to this key. They show how a figure was made, not how accurate it is. Open any figure to see its source, date and important limits.
Published council-wide context for councils linked to Widnes, not a finding about the whole place or a property.
These records are published for councils linked to known active postcodes in this place. The councils cover a wider area: a listed designation is not a finding that it intersects this town or any property. The list may not be exhaustive. AQMAs are management designations, not measured pollution concentrations, property exposure or clean-air charging zones. Absence of a designation is not evidence of clean air. Great Britain only; Northern Ireland mapping is not included.
St. Helens · council-wide context
Declared pollutant objectives: nitrogen dioxide.
An area encompassing the M6 for its entire length within the borough.
Official UK-AIR designation recordSt. Helens · council-wide context
Declared pollutant objectives: nitrogen dioxide.
High Street Newton le Willows (A49) between the junctions of Ashton Road and Church Street.
Official UK-AIR designation recordSt. Helens · council-wide context
Declared pollutant objectives: nitrogen dioxide.
Borough Rd St Helens between the junctions of Westfield Street and Prescott Road including 5-9 Alexandra Drive and 1-17 Prescott Road
Official UK-AIR designation recordSt. Helens · council-wide context
Declared pollutant objectives: nitrogen dioxide.
Reflection Court, Linkway West, St Helens
Official UK-AIR designation recordRegister snapshot: 2026-10-20. Imported 25 October 2026.
Mapped Nitrate Vulnerable Zone records are temporarily unavailable for Widnes. This does not establish whether any designation intersects the settlement outline or indicate water quality.
Original published categories whose polygons intersect the official Widnes settlement outline, including boundary contact.
These are original category codes and definitions from the retained Source Protection Zones (Merged) dataset whose polygons intersect this place’s official mapped settlement outline, including boundary-only contact. This is not a whole-town or property designation, a finding about a drinking-water supply, or evidence of contamination, water quality or risk. These definitions do not identify individual supplies. Dataset dates do not establish current legal status. Absence of a listed category does not establish that land or a property is outside a zone. England only; separate Welsh, Scottish and Northern Irish regimes are not represented. Precautionary groundwater abstraction and land-use designation at a postcode centroid, not an address-level finding or drinking-water quality result. Outside a mapped zone does not establish clean or unprotected groundwater. Welsh zones and the separate Scottish and Northern Irish regimes are not represented.
Zone 2 — outer protection zone, within a 400-day groundwater travel time of the abstraction
Zone 3 — total catchment, the whole area of ground needed to support the abstraction
Dataset reference period: 2026-03-06. Downloaded 19 October 2026. Imported 19 October 2026.
Broadband and mobile connectivity
Ofcom publishes these fixed-broadband, full-fibre take-up and mobile coverage profiles for named local and unitary authorities, rather than for town boundaries. They are shown as wider council-area context for Widnes; availability figures are provider predictions, not measurements at every address.
These highlights come from complete all-premises and residential broadband profiles, both published full-fibre take-up measures, the complete 2G, 3G, 4G, voice, 5G and standalone-5G network-count profiles, and the premises and grid-pixel counts used as the mobile basis. View every published broadband, full-fibre and mobile value.
Published source details for this wider council-area context:
641 sourced figures are listed here with the source, period and geography. Open a topic above for comparisons and detailed explanations.