Crime Statistics for St Michael’s Hamlet, Liverpool, Liverpool

The aim of this article is to provide a brief overview of street level crime in St Michael’s Hamlet using the latest Police statistics. Police data is usually published two months in arrears, so August 2019 are the latest figures. The data published by the Police are incidents that were reported to them in that month, not the crimes that were prosecuted and/or had further action taken. In by far the majority of incidents, no further action is taken.

There were a total of 69 street level crime incidents in St Michael’s Hamlet in August 2019. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour. Below are these incidents broken down by category.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in St Michael’s Hamlet, 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	20
Anti Social Behaviour	13
Criminal Damage Arson	9
Shoplifting	9
Drugs	6
Public Order	3
Robbery	2
Vehicle Crime	2
Bicycle Theft	1
Burglary	1
Other Theft	1
Possession Of Weapons	1
Other Crime	1
All Crime	69

Map of street level crime incidents in August 2019

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes St Michael’s Hamlet. 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 St Michael’s Hamlet

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Edge Hill (1.86 miles)	801
Toxteth (1.39 miles)	302
Mossley Hill (1.39 miles)	222
New Ferry (1.39 miles)	158
Grassendale (1.96 miles)	128
Spital (2.24 miles)	127
Aigburth (1.24 miles)	118
Bromborough Pool (1.75 miles)	117
Port Sunlight (2.24 miles)	106
St Michael’s Hamlet	69

Most violent places near St Michael’s Hamlet

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Edge Hill	212
Toxteth	94
New Ferry	65
Mossley Hill	51
Spital	39
Bromborough Pool	34
Port Sunlight	33
Grassendale	28
Aigburth	25
St Michael’s Hamlet	20