Crime Statistics for Garston, Liverpool, Liverpool, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Garston in October 2024. There were a total of 161 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 Garston, 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	54
Anti Social Behaviour	38
Shoplifting	22
Criminal Damage Arson	16
Public Order	10
Other Theft	9
Other Crime	5
Drugs	3
Burglary	2
Vehicle Crime	2
All Crime	161

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 Garston. 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 Garston

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Gateacre (2.24 miles)	216
Halewood (2.56 miles)	199
Grassendale (0.88 miles)	179
Mossley Hill (2.24 miles)	169
Speke (2.56 miles)	168
Garston	158
Allerton (1.39 miles)	142
Calderstones (1.86 miles)	122
Aigburth (1.75 miles)	83
St Michael’s Hamlet (2.77 miles)	62

Where are the most violent places near Garston?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Grassendale	85
Gateacre	81
Mossley Hill	66
Speke	60
Halewood	58
Garston	54
Allerton	41
Calderstones	40
Aigburth	36
St Michael’s Hamlet	26

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

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 Garston 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 Garston compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	St Michael's	72
2	Greenbank	67
3	Speke-Garston	66
4	Netherpool	63
5	Allerton and Hunts Cross	58
6	Cressington	54
7	Halewood South	52
8	Halewood North	50
9	Church	42
10	Mossley Hill	41
11	Woolton	39

Which road in Garston has the highest level of crime?

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