Crosby is a coastal town in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, Merseyside, England. it is north of Bootle, south of Southport and Formby, and west of Netherton. It borders the areas of Blundellsands to the north and Waterloo to the south. It is approximately 6
miles (9.6 km) north of Liverpool.
History
The town has Viking roots in common with the other -by suffixed settlements of Formby to the north and Kirkby to the east. Crosby was known as Krossabyr
in Old Norse, meaning "village with the cross".
The settlement was recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Crosebi, and by the year 1212 had become Crosseby.
Demography
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!colspan="4"|Crosby compared
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|2001 UK census||Crosby||Sefton (borough)||England
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|Total population||51,789||282,958||49,138,831
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|White||98.4%||98.4%||91.0%
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|Asian||0.5%||0.4%||4.6%
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|Black||0.1%||0.2%||2.3%
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At the 2001 UK census, Crosby had a population of 51,789. The 2001 population density was , with a 100 to 89.2 female-to-male ratio. Of those over 16 years old, 31.2% were single (never married), 43.2% married and 8.2% divorced. The proportion of divorced people was above that of Sefton and England (both 6.6%), and the incidences of those who were single and married differed significantly from the national and Sefton averages (Sefton: 43.1% single, 35.5% married; England: 44.3% single, 34.7% married). Sefton's 21,250 households included 32.7% one-person, 35.7% married couples living together, 6.6% were co-habiting couples, and 11.3% single parents with their children. Of those aged 16–74, 28.1% had no academic qualifications, similar to 28.9% in all of England and slightly lower than the 31.0% for the Sefton borough.