Crime Statistics for Wallasey, Wirral, Wirral, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Wallasey in September 2024. There were a total of 263 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 Wallasey, 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	129
Anti Social Behaviour	31
Public Order	29
Criminal Damage Arson	20
Other Theft	12
Robbery	8
Shoplifting	8
Vehicle Crime	7
Drugs	7
Other Crime	6
Burglary	4
Bicycle Theft	1
Theft From The Person	1
All Crime	263

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 Wallasey. 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 Wallasey

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Wallasey	263
Liscard	263
New Brighton (0.62 miles)	237
Claughton (2.48 miles)	234
Birkenhead (2.48 miles)	234
Leasowe (1.96 miles)	212
Bidston (1.75 miles)	134
Bidston Hill (2.24 miles)	134
Bootle (2.24 miles)	99
Sandhills (1.96 miles)	74

Where are the most violent places near Wallasey?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Liscard	130
Wallasey	129
Leasowe	119
Claughton	109
Birkenhead	109
New Brighton	108
Bidston Hill	65
Bidston	59
Bootle	44
Sandhills	27

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

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 Wallasey 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 Wallasey compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Birkenhead and Tranmere	85
2	Seacombe	80
3	Bidston and St James	80
4	Kirkdale	78
5	Liscard	71
6	Leasowe and Moreton East	63
7	New Brighton	62
8	Claughton	62
9	Oxton	59
10	Moreton West and Saughall Massie	43
11	Wallasey	41

Which road in Wallasey has the highest level of crime?

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