Crime Statistics for Moss Side, Knowsley, Knowsley, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Moss Side in October 2024. There were a total of 13 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Other Theft, followed by Public Order.

Crime Category	Incidents
Other Theft	4
Public Order	3
Criminal Damage Arson	3
Violent Crime	2
Vehicle Crime	1
All Crime	13

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 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
Stockbridge Village (2.78 miles)	774
Tower Hill (2.63 miles)	531
Northwood (1.75 miles)	422
Gillmoss (2.55 miles)	230
Croxteth (2.55 miles)	230
Southdene (1.86 miles)	158
Alt (2.58 miles)	143
Knowsley (1.39 miles)	91
Eccleston (2.77 miles)	60
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
Stockbridge Village	275
Tower Hill	181
Northwood	160
Gillmoss	81
Croxteth	81
Southdene	66
Alt	64
Knowsley	34
Eccleston	28
Moss Side	2

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.