Crime Statistics for Bidston Hill, Wirral, Wirral, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Bidston Hill in August 2024. There were a total of 121 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Bidston Hill, 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	50
Anti Social Behaviour	21
Criminal Damage Arson	12
Public Order	12
Other Theft	8
Shoplifting	6
Vehicle Crime	3
Drugs	3
Possession Of Weapons	3
Other Crime	2
Robbery	1
All Crime	121

Map of street level crime incidents in August 2024

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Liscard (2.24 miles)	478
Wallasey (2.24 miles)	266
Claughton (1.39 miles)	264
Birkenhead (1.39 miles)	264
Bidston (0.62 miles)	146
Moreton (1.39 miles)	130
Arrowe Hill (1.39 miles)	123
Bidston Hill	121
Leasowe (1.39 miles)	111
Greasby (2.24 miles)	14

Where are the most violent places near Bidston Hill?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Liscard	245
Claughton	181
Wallasey	128
Birkenhead	126
Moreton	67
Arrowe Hill	54
Leasowe	54
Bidston	51
Bidston Hill	50
Greasby	3

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

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 Bidston Hill 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 Bidston Hill compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Bidston and St James	80
2	Liscard	71
3	Leasowe and Moreton East	63
4	Claughton	62
5	Oxton	59
6	Prenton	51
7	Moreton West and Saughall Massie	43
8	Upton	41
9	Wallasey	41
10	Greasby, Frankby and Irby	20
11	Pensby and Thingwall	18

Which road in Bidston Hill has the highest level of crime?

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