Crime Statistics for Southport, Sefton, Sefton, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Southport in September 2024. There were a total of 500 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Shoplifting.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Southport, 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 Crime197
Shoplifting70
Public Order47
Drugs39
Anti Social Behaviour35
Other Theft25
Criminal Damage Arson24
Vehicle Crime19
Burglary12
Other Crime12
Bicycle Theft9
Robbery5
Theft From The Person3
Possession Of Weapons3
All Crime500

Map of street level crime incidents in September 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Southport. 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 Southport

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Churchtown (0.88 miles)502
Southport500
Blowick (0.88 miles)176
Crossens (2.24 miles)92
Birkdale (1.39 miles)84
Marshside (1.75 miles)70
Fiddler’s Ferry (2.63 miles)60
Pool Hey (1.75 miles)51
Brown Edge (2.24 miles)19
Carr Cross (2.63 miles)12

17.79%
of Duke's residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Southport?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Southport197
Churchtown194
Blowick80
Crossens56
Birkdale37
Marshside32
Fiddler’s Ferry28
Pool Hey25
Brown Edge9
Carr Cross8

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

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 Southport 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 Southport compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Southport and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Residents in Southport have the highest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Scarisbrick.

#WardScore
1Duke's55
2Kew42
3Halsall41
4Norwood37
5Ainsdale36
6Cambridge34
7Birkdale32
8North Meols29
9Harington22
10Meols19
11Scarisbrick12

Which road in Southport has the highest level of crime?

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

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