Crap Towns / Bootle / Broadband
How bad is the broadband in Bootle?
In January 2026, 1.1% of premises in Bootle couldn't get superfast broadband (30 Mbit/s), 2.2 times the typical town's 0.5%. Of those, 30 couldn't even get 10 Mbit/s, the legal minimum. Gigabit broadband reached 95.4% of premises, about the same as the typical town's 93.8%.
| Broadband | Premises | Share | Typical town |
|---|---|---|---|
| Can't get 10 Mbit/s | 30 | 0.1% | 0.0% |
| Can't get 30 Mbit/s | 288 | 1.1% | 0.5% |
| Gigabit available | 26,042 | 95.4% | 93.8% |
| Town | Distance | % that can't get 30 Mbit/s |
|---|---|---|
| Liverpool | 7.1 km | 2.5 |
| Bootle | – | 1.1 |
| Aintree | 4.5 km | 0.5 |
| Huyton with Roby | 10.4 km | 0.4 |
| Kirkby | 8.2 km | 0.3 |
| Crosby | 4.0 km | 0.3 |
| Maghull | 7.2 km | 0.3 |
| Lydiate | 8.5 km | 0.2 |
| Wallasey | 6.0 km | 0.2 |
| Litherland | 2.0 km | 0.1 |
| Birkenhead | 9.0 km | 0.1 |
| The typical town | – | 0.5 |