Crime Statistics for Toxteth, Liverpool, Liverpool, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Toxteth in October 2024. There were a total of 414 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 Toxteth, 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	171
Drugs	69
Public Order	43
Criminal Damage Arson	29
Anti Social Behaviour	24
Other Crime	16
Vehicle Crime	15
Other Theft	15
Burglary	10
Possession Of Weapons	8
Bicycle Theft	6
Shoplifting	5
Robbery	2
Theft From The Person	1
All Crime	414

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 Toxteth. 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 Toxteth

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Kensington (1.96 miles)	2534
Liverpool (2.24 miles)	1347
Edge Hill (0.88 miles)	1165
Fairfield (2.24 miles)	647
Wavertree (1.96 miles)	442
Toxteth	261
Mossley Hill (1.96 miles)	169
New Ferry (1.96 miles)	112
Aigburth (2.24 miles)	83
St Michael’s Hamlet (1.39 miles)	62

Where are the most violent places near Toxteth?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Kensington	857
Liverpool	534
Edge Hill	515
Fairfield	324
Wavertree	183
Toxteth	171
Mossley Hill	66
New Ferry	46
Aigburth	36
St Michael’s Hamlet	26

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

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 Toxteth 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 Toxteth compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Birkenhead and Tranmere	85
2	Picton	80
3	Riverside	80
4	Princes Park	78
5	St Michael's	72
6	Central	72
7	Rock Ferry	71
8	Greenbank	67
9	Bromborough	51
10	Mossley Hill	41
11	Bebington	34

Which road in Toxteth has the highest level of crime?

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