Crime Statistics for Bootle, Liverpool, Sefton, 2024

There were a total of 99 street level crime incidents in Bootle 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 Bootle, 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	47
Drugs	16
Public Order	10
Vehicle Crime	7
Other Theft	5
Criminal Damage Arson	4
Burglary	3
Anti Social Behaviour	3
Other Crime	1
Shoplifting	1
Robbery	1
Theft From The Person	1
All Crime	99

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 Bootle. 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 Bootle

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Everton (1.75 miles)	867
Walton (1.86 miles)	632
Anfield (2.55 miles)	585
Litherland (2.48 miles)	334
Wallasey (2.24 miles)	215
Liscard (2.24 miles)	215
Waterloo Park (2.56 miles)	207
New Brighton (1.96 miles)	187
Bootle	99
Sandhills (0.62 miles)	36

Where are the most violent places near Bootle?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Walton	284
Everton	276
Anfield	254
Litherland	141
Wallasey	89
Liscard	89
Waterloo Park	82
New Brighton	76
Bootle	47
Sandhills	14

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

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 Bootle 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 Bootle compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Bootle and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Bootle is ranked #5.

#	Ward	Score
1	County	92
2	Everton	91
3	Linacre	90
4	Seacombe	80
5	Kirkdale	78
6	Derby	71
7	Liscard	71
8	Church	68
9	Litherland	68
10	New Brighton	62
11	Netherton and Orrell	56

Which road in Bootle has the highest level of crime?

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