Crime Statistics for Toxteth, Liverpool, Liverpool, 2024

Crime statistics for Toxteth, Liverpool

There were a total of 291 street level crime incidents in Toxteth in January 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 Toxteth, 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime135
Drugs26
Anti Social Behaviour25
Criminal Damage Arson24
Public Order24
Other Theft21
Vehicle Crime12
Burglary11
Shoplifting5
Theft From The Person4
Bicycle Theft1
Possession Of Weapons1
Robbery1
Other Crime1
All Crime291

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2024

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

How grim is your Postcode?

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 Toxteth

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Kensington (1.96 miles)1316
Edge Hill (0.88 miles)788
Liverpool (2.24 miles)637
Fairfield (2.24 miles)637
Wavertree (1.96 miles)462
Toxteth291
Mossley Hill (1.96 miles)168
New Ferry (1.96 miles)128
Aigburth (2.24 miles)89
St Michael’s Hamlet (1.39 miles)61

22.73%
of Riverside (Liverpool) residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Toxteth?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Kensington417
Edge Hill298
Liverpool262
Fairfield262
Wavertree203
Toxteth135
New Ferry65
Mossley Hill61
Aigburth43
St Michael’s Hamlet25

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

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 Toxteth 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 Toxteth compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Toxteth and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Toxteth is ranked #3.

#WardScore
1Birkenhead and Tranmere85
2Picton80
3Riverside80
4Princes Park78
5St Michael's72
6Central72
7Rock Ferry71
8Greenbank67
9Bromborough51
10Mossley Hill41
11Bebington34

Which road in Toxteth has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: January 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
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