Crime Statistics for Kensington, Liverpool, Liverpool, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Kensington in September 2024. There were a total of 2718 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 Kensington, 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 Crime810
Drugs344
Public Order326
Shoplifting240
Other Theft206
Anti Social Behaviour190
Criminal Damage Arson142
Other Crime112
Theft From The Person96
Vehicle Crime86
Burglary86
Bicycle Theft36
Possession Of Weapons24
Robbery20
All Crime2718

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 Kensington. 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 Kensington

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Kensington2564
Everton (0.88 miles)965
Fairfield (0.62 miles)960
Edge Hill (1.24 miles)771
Clubmoor (1.75 miles)735
Tuebrook (1.39 miles)620
Liverpool (0.62 miles)619
Anfield (1.39 miles)574
Stoneycroft (1.86 miles)489
Wavertree (1.75 miles)398

30.43%
of Central (Liverpool) residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Kensington?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Kensington810
Fairfield413
Clubmoor339
Everton290
Edge Hill287
Liverpool233
Anfield228
Tuebrook225
Wavertree179
Stoneycroft171

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

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 Kensington 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 Kensington compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Kensington and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Kensington is ranked #9.

#WardScore
1Everton91
2Anfield91
3Kensington and Fairfield89
4Tuebrook and Stoneycroft87
5Picton80
6Riverside80
7Princes Park78
8Kirkdale78
9Central72
10Wavertree69
11Greenbank67

Which road in Kensington has the highest level of crime?

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

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