Crime Statistics for Moss Side, Knowsley, Knowsley, 2025

Is Moss Side rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 13 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Drugs.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Moss Side, 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	5
Drugs	3
Public Order	2
Burglary	1
Other Theft	1
Anti Social Behaviour	1
All Crime	13

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2025

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Northwood (1.75 miles)	400
Tower Hill (2.63 miles)	368
Stockbridge Village (2.78 miles)	260
Gillmoss (2.55 miles)	165
Croxteth (2.55 miles)	165
Southdene (1.86 miles)	99
Alt (2.58 miles)	90
Knowsley (1.39 miles)	58
Eccleston (2.77 miles)	53
Moss Side	13

Where are the most violent places near Moss Side?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Northwood	256
Stockbridge Village	123
Tower Hill	119
Gillmoss	67
Croxteth	67
Southdene	43
Alt	36
Knowsley	27
Eccleston	25
Moss Side	5

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

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 Moss Side 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 Moss Side compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Yew Tree	75
2	Cherryfield	72
3	St Michaels	67
4	Northwood	66
5	Whitefield	63
6	Croxteth	59
7	Stockbridge	58
8	Prescot North	57
9	Shevington	51
10	Molyneux	42
11	Rainford	34

Which road in Moss Side has the highest level of crime?

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