Crap Towns / Liverpool / Broadband
How bad is the broadband in Liverpool?
In January 2026, 2.5% of premises in Liverpool couldn't get superfast broadband (30 Mbit/s), 5.0 times the typical town's 0.5%. Of those, 310 couldn't even get 10 Mbit/s, the legal minimum. Gigabit broadband reached 91.9% of premises, about the same as the typical town's 93.8%.
| Broadband | Premises | Share | Typical town |
|---|---|---|---|
| Can't get 10 Mbit/s | 310 | 0.1% | 0.0% |
| Can't get 30 Mbit/s | 6,184 | 2.5% | 0.5% |
| Gigabit available | 226,170 | 91.9% | 93.8% |
| Town | Distance | % that can't get 30 Mbit/s |
|---|---|---|
| Liverpool | – | 2.5 |
| Bootle | 7.1 km | 1.1 |
| Prescot | 8.9 km | 0.5 |
| Aintree | 8.0 km | 0.5 |
| Huyton with Roby | 4.5 km | 0.4 |
| Kirkby | 8.3 km | 0.3 |
| Crosby | 11.0 km | 0.3 |
| Bebington | 9.4 km | 0.2 |
| Wallasey | 9.1 km | 0.2 |
| Litherland | 8.7 km | 0.1 |
| Birkenhead | 9.6 km | 0.1 |
| The typical town | – | 0.5 |