What is the average rent in Liverpool?

The median monthly rent across Liverpool is £893, based on ONS Private Rental Prices data. Individual neighbourhoods vary — see the shortlist above for the cheapest and most desirable areas.

Where is the cheapest place to rent in Liverpool?

The cheapest neighbourhood in Liverpool by estimated median rent is Everton East at approximately £678/month. The full top-five cheapest list and our methodology are above.

What's the best neighbourhood to live in Liverpool?

By our composite liveability score (which blends safety, transport, schools, rent affordability and EPC), the top-ranked neighbourhood in Liverpool is Walton Vale at 99/100. The score is editorial; see /methodology/scoring/liveability for the formula.

Is Liverpool a safe area?

Liverpool has an average safety score of 50/100 across its constituent neighbourhoods (higher is safer). The score is the national percentile rank of police-recorded crimes per 1,000 residents per year, inverted so 100 means the safest 1% of England + Wales.

What is council tax in Liverpool?

The most common council tax band in Liverpool is not yet published, with the Band D annual charge currently around £2,254. Council tax is set at the local authority level so the same banding applies to every postcode within Liverpool.

What is the average salary in Liverpool?

The median annual resident salary in Liverpool is £30,947, per ONS ASHE 2025. This is salary for people who live in Liverpool, not for people who commute in to work there. Workplace median salary is published separately.

What is the average house price in Liverpool?

The average property price in Liverpool is approximately £177,378 according to HM Land Registry's House Price Index. Individual neighbourhoods vary — typically ±20% around this council area median.

What's the rental yield in Liverpool?

Gross rental yield in Liverpool is approximately 6.0% — the council-area level median rent annualised over the council-area level median sale price. Net yield (after agency, void, maintenance and tax) typically runs 30–40% lower.

How long does it take to save a deposit in Liverpool?

Saving a 10% deposit at the council area median sale price on the council area median salary, while putting away 10% of takehome pay each month, takes approximately 2.7 years in Liverpool. Faster if you save more, slower if rents are eating into savings.

Is gigabit broadband available in Liverpool?

100% of premises in Liverpool are gigabit-capable per Ofcom Connected Nations 2025. Coverage is patchier in older terraces and rural fringes — check your specific postcode for service availability.

What's the unemployment rate in Liverpool?

5.6% of 16-64 residents in Liverpool are on the DWP Claimant Count — Universal Credit while seeking work, or Jobseeker's Allowance. That's the live monthly local indicator. It's narrower than the ONS Labour Force Survey "ILO unemployment rate" (which counts anyone actively job-seeking on a separate denominator) and narrower again than Census 2021's "% unemployed" (which is calculated against all 16+ residents and so isn't directly comparable).

How many neighbourhoods are in Liverpool?

Liverpool contains 61 neighbourhood neighbourhoods covering 302 sub-areas (local areas). Browse the full list at the bottom of this page or use the neighbourhood map above to drill into a specific area.

City · North West

Living in Liverpool

61 neighbourhoods · 302 sub-areas

Updated May 2026

Where on the UK

Crime vs nat. avg

≈ nat. avg

In line with nat. avg · 93.9 / 1k / yr · #279 of 318 cities

Police.uk crime data · Feb 2026

Good schools

100%

#1 of 296 cities

Ofsted inspections · Feb 2026

Commute to hub

17 min

#33 of 318 cities

DfT Journey Times 2019 · 2019 (programme paused)

Jobs density

0.59

#43 of 318 cities

ONS BRES · 2024

Avg rent

£893/mo

+6.4% YoY · #105 of 314 cities

ONS Rent Index (PIPR) · Mar 2026

Council tax

£158/mo

Estimated (Band D)

MHCLG Council Tax Band D · 2026

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Neighbourhoods in Liverpool

Tap any row or map polygon to drill into that neighbourhood — hovering on desktop will preview the link before you click. Switch the tab strip above the table to focus on Affordability, Schools, Transport, Safety or Wealth — the columns swap and the default sort follows.

61 neighbourhoods · 302 sub-areas

Rent, scores and YoY change at a glance.


Everton East	£678	+6.4%	85	22
Fairfield West & Newsham Park	£696	+6.4%	83	10
Walton Hall	£707	+6.4%	85	27
Chinatown, St James & Georgian Quarter	£709	+6.4%	92	28
Walton South	£717	+6.4%	85	12
Wavertree West	£717	+6.4%	99	48
Norris Green West	£725	+6.4%	78	55
Walton North	£726	+6.4%	91	22
Central & Islington	£727	+6.4%	85	6
Fazakerley South	£728	+6.4%	95	53
Anfield East	£731	+6.4%	90	32
Tuebrook	£742	+6.4%	93	59
Walton East	£745	+6.4%	96	56
Fairfield East	£747	+6.4%	91	41
Toxteth Park	£747	+6.4%	85	23
Anfield North	£749	+6.4%	97	55
Yewtree	£751	+6.4%	94	59
Kirkdale North	£760	+6.4%	85	14
Everton West	£763	+6.4%	91	30
Stoneycroft	£764	+6.4%	98	60
Pier Head	£765	+6.4%	85	2
Kensington	£766	+6.4%	97	37
Anfield West	£779	+6.4%	85	21
Knotty Ash	£784	+6.4%	96	57
Netherley	£784	+6.4%	93	60
Walton Vale	£790	+6.4%	99	66
Speke East	£795	+6.4%	82	40
Edge Hill	£806	+6.4%	97	42
Princes Park	£817	+6.4%	85	25
Toxteth	£820	+6.4%	96	53
Orrell Park	£829	+6.4%	98	48
Croxteth West & Gillmoss	£835	+6.4%	96	56
Dingle	£848	+6.4%	96	49
Wavertree East	£850	+6.4%	92	48
Fazakerley North	£850	+6.4%	94	42
Kirkdale South & Vauxhall	£850	+6.4%	85	14
Albert Dock & Queen's Dock	£853	+6.4%	85	21
Wavertree South	£861	+6.4%	95	44
Croxteth East	£869	+6.4%	94	81
Croxteth Park	£893	+6.4%	72	71
Speke West & Airport	£907	+6.4%	78	18
Muirhead Avenue	£911	+6.4%	94	80
Dovecot	£931	+6.4%	85	25
Belle Vale	£944	+6.4%	81	68
Norris Green East	£947	+6.4%	77	54
Garston	£965	+6.4%	91	48
Broad Green	£1,052	+6.4%	96	69
Sandfield Park & Holly Lodge	£1,061	+6.4%	66	71
Mossley Hill West & Sefton Park	£1,092	+6.4%	84	49
St Michael's & Otterspool	£1,111	+6.4%	84	68

Showing 1–50 of 61

Sources: ONS, MHCLG, DfT, DESNZ, Defra, Police.uk, Ofsted, Ofcom, HM Land Registry. Some columns (salary, council tax, HPI) are published at council-area level.

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Where to look in Liverpool

Three short answers to "where should I focus?" in Liverpool. Each list is filtered from the same neighbourhood data above — the basis of each shortlist is stated above the list so you know what's been weighted.

Top 5 cheapest

Lowest estimated monthly rent. Rent is the LAD-published ONS PIPR median, scaled per neighbourhood by local sale prices (Land Registry).

Top 5 most desirable

Highest composite liveability — combines safety, schools, transport access and rental affordability into one 0–100 score (higher = more liveable).

Top 5 best value

Highest liveability per pound of rent — desirable areas where rent stays close to or below the Liverpool median.

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Cost of living

Median rent and council tax across Liverpool.

Avg rent

£893/mo

#105 of 314 cities

ONS Rent Index (PIPR) · Mar 2026

Council tax

£158/mo

MHCLG Council Tax Band D · 2026

Sale price

£162,000

+3.6% YoY

HM Land Registry Price Paid · Jan 2025

Yrs to deposit

2.7 yr

Rent & price breakdownBy bedroom count · property type · affordability

council-area level rent by bedroom

ONS PIPR median for the council area

1 bed£672/mo

2 bed£819/mo

3 bed£941/mo

4 bed£1,270/mo

Sale price by property type

HMLR HPI average

Detached£373,302

Semi-detached£224,829

Terraced£168,258

Flat£122,264

Affordability

Price-to-earnings5.3×

Rent / take-home35%

Council tax (estimated, full council area)£1,900/yr

Mortgage (25y, 5%)£868/mo

Rent: ONS PIPR (council area). Council tax: VOA + MHCLG. Sale prices: HM Land Registry.

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Safety in Liverpool

Crime in Liverpool runs at in line with the national average. Bottom quartile (#279 of 318 cities) The supporting per-1,000-residents-per-year rate is 93.9, averaged across the council area's neighbourhoods.

How crime is measured

What's counted. Incidents recorded by territorial police forces and published to data.police.uk each month. Rates use the latest 12 months of data divided by the area's mid-2024 ONS resident population — so the figure is reported incidents per 1,000 residents per year.

Anti-social behaviour is the largest category in most areas and is worth reading carefully — it's a community-reports bucket (noise, rowdiness, nuisance), not "crime" in the legal sense. ASB and shoplifting are weighted lower than violent offences in the safety score on each page.

Caveats. The denominator is residents, so workday and tourist destinations can look worse than they feel for someone living there. Greater Manchester forces stopped publishing to data.police.uk in 2020, so figures for those areas are intentionally blank rather than misleadingly low.

ContextRates are per resident. As a major workday and tourist destination, the daytime population here is much larger than the resident base — so the per-resident figure overstates a typical resident's exposure.

Total crime / 1k / yr

93.9

#279 of 318 cities

Police.uk crime data · Feb 2026

Violent / 1k / yr

39.1

Police.uk crime data · Feb 2026

Burglary / 1k / yr

2.8

Police.uk crime data · Feb 2026

ASB / 1k / yr

7.8

Police.uk crime data · Feb 2026

Crime detailTop crime types · safest neighbourhoods in this council area

All crime categories

incidents / 1,000 residents / year — sorted high → low

Violent & sexual offences

39.1

Public order

8.6

Criminal damage & arson

8.2

Anti-social behaviour

7.8

Drugs

7.4

Other theft

4.5

Shoplifting

4.1

Vehicle crime

4.0

Burglary

2.8

Other crime

2.4

Robbery

1.5

Possession of weapons

1.4

Bicycle theft

1.3

Theft from the person

0.9

Safest neighbourhoods in Liverpool

by safety score (higher = safer)

West Allerton97/100

Childwall East95/100

Childwall West & Wavertree Green94/100

Source: data.police.uk — incident counts adjusted for population, then averaged across the council area's neighbourhoods. National average = England + Wales population-weighted mean.

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Schools in Liverpool

100% of schools serving Liverpool are rated Good or Outstanding by Ofsted. Best 5% nationally (#1 of 296 cities)

Good or Outstanding

100%

#1 of 296 cities

Ofsted inspections · Feb 2026

Outstanding only

Ofsted inspections · Feb 2026

Good w/in 2 km

33%

#171 of 318 cities

Ofsted (spatial) · Feb 2026

Schools rated

Ofsted inspections · Feb 2026

School breakdownOfsted distribution · best neighbourhoods for schools

Ofsted rating distribution

Good100%

Outstanding (count)0

Good (count)1

Requires improvement0

Inadequate0

Best neighbourhoods for schools in Liverpool

by school score

Wavertree Penny Lane95/100

Mossley Hill East94/100

Calderstones93/100

Ofsted school inspection ratings, latest inspection per school.

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Transport in Liverpool

Modelled door-to-door commute from this council area to nearby employment hubs. Closest first.

Best hub

17 min

#33 of 318 cities

DfT Journey Times 2019 · 2019 (programme paused)

To Liverpool

17 min

Median across local areas

DfT Journey Times 2019 · 2019 (programme paused)

To Manchester

60 min

Median across local areas

DfT Journey Times 2019 · 2019 (programme paused)

To Leeds

104 min

Median across local areas

DfT Journey Times 2019 · 2019 (programme paused)

Transport detailAll city commute times · mode share · best-connected neighbourhoods

Commute to major UK cities

public transport, off-peak typical

Liverpool

17 min

Manchester

60 min

Leeds

104 min

Birmingham

110 min

Sheffield

115 min

London

150 min

Glasgow

208 min

Cardiff

211 min

Edinburgh

214 min

Bristol

258 min

How residents travel to work

Census 2021, mode share

Car46%Public14%Active11%WFH24%

Best-connected neighbourhoods in Liverpool

by transport score

Pier Head99/100

Orrell Park98/100

Mossley Hill East97/100

DfT Journey Time Statistics + ONS Travel-to-Work.

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Job access from Liverpool

Liverpool has 0.59 jobs per resident locally. Top quartile

Jobs per resident

0.59

#43 of 318 cities

ONS BRES · 2024

Drive to 5,000+ jobs

11 min

DfT Journey Times 2019 · 2019 (programme paused)

PT to 5,000+ jobs

20 min

DfT Journey Times 2019 · 2019 (programme paused)

5y jobs growth

+6.0%

ONS Jobs Density · 2024

Job access detailReachability tiers · sector mix in this council area

Reachable jobs by mode

Drive — 100 jobs6 min

PT — 100 jobs5 min

Drive — 500 jobs7 min

PT — 500 jobs9 min

Drive — 5,000 jobs11 min

PT — 5,000 jobs20 min

Local job mix by sector

ONS BRES, % of local jobs

Retail & hospitality

20.2%

Health & social care

19.3%

Education

9.6%

Professional & business svcs

7.1%

Finance & insurance

3.7%

Manufacturing

3.4%

Construction

3.3%

Tech & ICT

3.2%

ONS BRES (jobs density) + DfT job-accessibility minutes.

FAQ

Frequently asked about Liverpool

Short answers to the questions we get most often. Each answer is anchored in the data above and links onward where you can dig deeper.

What is the average rent in Liverpool?: The median monthly rent across Liverpool is £893, based on ONS Private Rental Prices data. Individual neighbourhoods vary — see the shortlist above for the cheapest and most desirable areas.
Where is the cheapest place to rent in Liverpool?: The cheapest neighbourhood in Liverpool by estimated median rent is Everton East at approximately £678/month. The full top-five cheapest list and our methodology are above.
What's the best neighbourhood to live in Liverpool?: By our composite liveability score (which blends safety, transport, schools, rent affordability and EPC), the top-ranked neighbourhood in Liverpool is Walton Vale at 99/100. The score is editorial; see /methodology/scoring/liveability for the formula.
Is Liverpool a safe area?: Liverpool has an average safety score of 50/100 across its constituent neighbourhoods (higher is safer). The score is the national percentile rank of police-recorded crimes per 1,000 residents per year, inverted so 100 means the safest 1% of England + Wales.
What is council tax in Liverpool?: The most common council tax band in Liverpool is not yet published, with the Band D annual charge currently around £2,254. Council tax is set at the local authority level so the same banding applies to every postcode within Liverpool.
What is the average salary in Liverpool?: The median annual resident salary in Liverpool is £30,947, per ONS ASHE 2025. This is salary for people who live in Liverpool, not for people who commute in to work there. Workplace median salary is published separately.
What is the average house price in Liverpool?: The average property price in Liverpool is approximately £177,378 according to HM Land Registry's House Price Index. Individual neighbourhoods vary — typically ±20% around this council area median.
What's the rental yield in Liverpool?: Gross rental yield in Liverpool is approximately 6.0% — the council-area level median rent annualised over the council-area level median sale price. Net yield (after agency, void, maintenance and tax) typically runs 30–40% lower.
How long does it take to save a deposit in Liverpool?: Saving a 10% deposit at the council area median sale price on the council area median salary, while putting away 10% of takehome pay each month, takes approximately 2.7 years in Liverpool. Faster if you save more, slower if rents are eating into savings.
Is gigabit broadband available in Liverpool?: 100% of premises in Liverpool are gigabit-capable per Ofcom Connected Nations 2025. Coverage is patchier in older terraces and rural fringes — check your specific postcode for service availability.
What's the unemployment rate in Liverpool?: 5.6% of 16-64 residents in Liverpool are on the DWP Claimant Count — Universal Credit while seeking work, or Jobseeker's Allowance. That's the live monthly local indicator. It's narrower than the ONS Labour Force Survey "ILO unemployment rate" (which counts anyone actively job-seeking on a separate denominator) and narrower again than Census 2021's "% unemployed" (which is calculated against all 16+ residents and so isn't directly comparable).
How many neighbourhoods are in Liverpool?: Liverpool contains 61 neighbourhood neighbourhoods covering 302 sub-areas (local areas). Browse the full list at the bottom of this page or use the neighbourhood map above to drill into a specific area.

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All sub-areas in Liverpool

Every local area, ordered by crawl priority. Most readers want the neighbourhood-level view — these are for deep-link cases or external search-engine arrivals.

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