Crime Statistics for Speke, Liverpool, Liverpool, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Speke in August 2024. There were a total of 174 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Shoplifting.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Speke, 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	48
Shoplifting	25
Other Theft	21
Criminal Damage Arson	19
Anti Social Behaviour	13
Drugs	12
Public Order	11
Vehicle Crime	10
Burglary	9
Other Crime	5
Robbery	1
All Crime	174

Map of street level crime incidents in August 2024

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Halewood (1.24 miles)	219
Speke	174
Netherley (3.11 miles)	151
Grassendale (3.34 miles)	147
Garston (2.56 miles)	136
Gateacre (2.78 miles)	112
Allerton (2.63 miles)	104
Hale (1.39 miles)	57
Hale Bank (2.48 miles)	22
Tarbock Green (2.78 miles)	14

Where are the most violent places near Speke?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Grassendale	77
Allerton	70
Netherley	64
Halewood	63
Gateacre	60
Speke	48
Garston	42
Hale	22
Hale Bank	8
Tarbock Green	7

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

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 Speke 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 Speke compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Broadheath	75
2	Hough Green	69
3	Speke-Garston	66
4	Ditton	62
5	Hale	60
6	Allerton and Hunts Cross	58
7	Cressington	54
8	Halewood South	52
9	Halewood North	50
10	Woolton	39
11	Heath	37

Which road in Speke has the highest level of crime?

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