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Speke ward, Liverpool

Speke is one of 64 electoral wards of Liverpool City Council (North West). At the 2021 Census it had 14,338 residents in 6,078 households — 1,569 people per km², the 3rd largest of the council's wards by population. It lies in the Liverpool Garston constituency.

Residents, 202114,338council ward average 7,716
Households6,0782.36 residents per household
Density1,569/ km²about 9.14 km² · Liverpool 4,346
Aged 65+12.9%Liverpool: 15.3% · under 16: 23.4%
Census 2021

Age of residents

0–47.5% · 1,071
5–97.8% · 1,114
10–158.1% · 1,167
16–194.5% · 650
20–245.3% · 766
25–3416.3% · 2,342
35–4919.2% · 2,754
50–6418.3% · 2,630
65–747.8% · 1,123
75–843.8% · 548
85+1.2% · 176

Car or van availability

Share of households.

No car or van41.5% · 2,524
1 car or van42.5% · 2,587
2 cars or vans13.9% · 848
3 or more2.0% · 123
Census 2021

Housing tenure

Share of households; Liverpool overall: 46.8% owned, 26.4% social rented, 26.1% private rented.

Owned outright15.5% · 939
With mortgage21.6% · 1,315
Shared ownership0.7% · 42
Social rented48.4% · 2,943
Private rented13.7% · 834
Lives rent free0.0% · 3

Type of home

Detached house5.7% · 348
Semi-detached house28.0% · 1,700
Terraced house57.7% · 3,506
Purpose-built flat8.2% · 499
Converted house0.2% · 14
Other conversion0.0% · 3
Above shop / office0.1% · 9
Caravan, mobile0.0% · 1
Census 2021: Office for National Statistics via Nomis (TS001, TS006, TS007B, TS041, TS044, TS045, TS054) · ward lookups: ONS Open Geography Portal · Open Government Licence v3.0This ward was drawn after the 2021 Census: figures are built up from the 8 census areas (LSOAs) that ONS best-fits to it, so they are close estimates.