Crime Statistics for Dovecot, Liverpool, Knowsley, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Dovecot in October 2024. There were a total of 314 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 Dovecot, 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 Crime99
Anti Social Behaviour60
Criminal Damage Arson31
Public Order31
Vehicle Crime21
Other Theft20
Drugs18
Other Crime11
Burglary10
Shoplifting9
Robbery2
Theft From The Person1
Possession Of Weapons1
All Crime314

Map of street level crime incidents in October 2024

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

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Stockbridge Village (1.39 miles)774
Stoneycroft (1.24 miles)753
Tuebrook (1.96 miles)722
Knotty Ash (0.62 miles)586
Broad Green (0.88 miles)527
Page Moss (0.62 miles)463
Fincham (0.88 miles)408
Longview (1.96 miles)400
Dovecot314
Childwall (1.24 miles)125

3.32%
of Swanside residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Dovecot?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Stoneycroft296
Stockbridge Village275
Tuebrook262
Knotty Ash208
Broad Green185
Page Moss172
Longview129
Fincham128
Dovecot99
Childwall38

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

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 Dovecot 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 Dovecot compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Dovecot and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Dovecot is ranked #8.

#WardScore
1Kensington and Fairfield89
2Page Moss78
3Knotty Ash77
4Old Swan76
5Wavertree69
6West Derby67
7Stockbridge58
8Swanside55
9Belle Vale51
10Childwall50
11Woolton39

Which road in Dovecot has the highest level of crime?

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

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