Crime Statistics for Dovecot, Liverpool, Knowsley, 2024

There were a total of 295 street level crime incidents in Dovecot in February 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Criminal Damage Arson.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Dovecot, this category is usually the largest in any urban area. This is partly because 'Violent Crime' covers so many offences compared to say Burglary

Crime Category	Incidents
Violent Crime	145
Criminal Damage Arson	27
Public Order	26
Anti Social Behaviour	23
Vehicle Crime	18
Other Theft	15
Drugs	14
Shoplifting	10
Other Crime	9
Possession Of Weapons	4
Burglary	3
Robbery	1
All Crime	295

Map of street level crime incidents in February 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Dovecot. This map shows if incidents are evenly distributed over the district or if there are hot spots in certain streets or areas.

Where Police data is not specific to an address for privacy reasons, most roads are represented by 1 to 2 markers or clusters. However, this should be enough to ascertain if the road you live in or are thinking of moving to, is a crime hot spot. The only exception could be where there is a large cluster of a single crime category on a street, as this could but not necessarily be related to multiple incidents at one address.

Crime incidents in neighbouring areas to Dovecot

We've taken the ten nearest places to Dovecot and ranked them by the number of crime incidents in each. This should allow you to see if Dovecot has more crime than other surrounding areas.

Location	Crime Incidents
Tuebrook (1.96 miles)	724
Stoneycroft (1.24 miles)	487
Knotty Ash (0.62 miles)	402
Stockbridge Village (1.39 miles)	322
Fincham (0.88 miles)	297
Dovecot	295
Broad Green (0.88 miles)	291
Page Moss (0.62 miles)	265
Longview (1.96 miles)	248
Childwall (1.24 miles)	94

Where are the most violent places near Dovecot?

The category of crime that most concerns people is violent crime. We have taken the ten nearest place to Dovecot and ranked them according to the number of violent incidents in the 'best fit' Policing neighbourhood.

Location	Violent Incidents
Tuebrook	275
Stoneycroft	191
Knotty Ash	157
Stockbridge Village	155
Dovecot	145
Broad Green	143
Fincham	129
Page Moss	122
Longview	104
Childwall	58

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Dovecot?

Every two years the government publishes the Index of Multiple Deprivation. One of those domains is crime, more precisely, how likely you are to be the victim of a what is known as 'personal crime', such as muggings or burglary. The governemnt publish these statitsics down to the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) or in simple geographic terms, a few roads. These statistics are also published on a ward level as an average of the LSOAs in that area. We have taken the average rank and converted it into a more accessble form, a score out of 100. Where the higher the score, the more likely you are in Dovecot to be a victim of personal crime. Note that the following score has been generated from the 2019 statistics. At the time of writing, these have not been updated by the government during and since the COVID 19 pandemic.

How does crime in Dovecot compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Dovecot and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Dovecot is ranked #8.

#	Ward	Score
1	Kensington and Fairfield	89
2	Page Moss	78
3	Knotty Ash	77
4	Old Swan	76
5	Wavertree	69
6	West Derby	67
7	Stockbridge	58
8	Swanside	55
9	Belle Vale	51
10	Childwall	50
11	Woolton	39

Which road in Dovecot has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Dovecot with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around Ashbourne Crescent.