Crime Statistics for Longview, Knowsley, Knowsley, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Longview in September 2024. There were a total of 470 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Criminal Damage Arson.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Longview, 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	188
Criminal Damage Arson	72
Anti Social Behaviour	43
Public Order	42
Other Theft	34
Drugs	30
Other Crime	17
Vehicle Crime	14
Burglary	12
Shoplifting	10
Robbery	6
Bicycle Theft	2
All Crime	470

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 Longview. 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 Longview

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Knotty Ash (2.56 miles)	606
Longview	433
Stockbridge Village (1.39 miles)	299
Dovecot (1.96 miles)	295
Fincham (1.24 miles)	293
Page Moss (1.39 miles)	248
Eccleston Park (1.96 miles)	185
Netherley (2.48 miles)	158
Holt (2.56 miles)	151
Knowsley (1.96 miles)	60

Where are the most violent places near Longview?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Knotty Ash	258
Longview	188
Stockbridge Village	166
Fincham	128
Page Moss	128
Dovecot	114
Eccleston Park	85
Holt	71
Netherley	63
Knowsley	27

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

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 Longview 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 Longview compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Longview and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Longview is ranked #3.

#	Ward	Score
1	Page Moss	78
2	Yew Tree	75
3	St Michaels	67
4	West Derby	67
5	Roby	60
6	Stockbridge	58
7	Prescot North	57
8	St Gabriels	56
9	Swanside	55
10	Prescot South	52
11	Belle Vale	51

Which road in Longview has the highest level of crime?

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