Crime Statistics for Kensington, Liverpool, Liverpool, 2024

There were a total of 1335 street level crime incidents in Kensington in February 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Drugs.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Kensington, 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	449
Drugs	190
Public Order	145
Shoplifting	121
Anti Social Behaviour	88
Other Theft	75
Criminal Damage Arson	63
Theft From The Person	58
Burglary	49
Other Crime	26
Bicycle Theft	20
Vehicle Crime	20
Robbery	16
Possession Of Weapons	15
All Crime	1335

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 Kensington. 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 Kensington

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Kensington	1335
Everton (0.88 miles)	867
Edge Hill (1.24 miles)	798
Tuebrook (1.39 miles)	724
Liverpool (0.62 miles)	630
Fairfield (0.62 miles)	630
Anfield (1.39 miles)	585
Clubmoor (1.75 miles)	493
Stoneycroft (1.86 miles)	487
Wavertree (1.75 miles)	462

Where are the most violent places near Kensington?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Kensington	449
Edge Hill	310
Everton	276
Tuebrook	275
Anfield	254
Liverpool	248
Fairfield	248
Clubmoor	211
Wavertree	203
Stoneycroft	191

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

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 Kensington 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 Kensington compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Kensington and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Kensington is ranked #9.

#	Ward	Score
1	Everton	91
2	Anfield	91
3	Kensington and Fairfield	89
4	Tuebrook and Stoneycroft	87
5	Picton	80
6	Riverside	80
7	Princes Park	78
8	Kirkdale	78
9	Central	72
10	Wavertree	69
11	Greenbank	67

Which road in Kensington has the highest level of crime?

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