Crime Statistics for Wavertree, Liverpool, Liverpool, 2025

Is Wavertree rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 307 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Public Order.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Wavertree, 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	178
Public Order	41
Vehicle Crime	18
Other Theft	17
Shoplifting	13
Anti Social Behaviour	10
Criminal Damage Arson	6
Other Crime	5
Possession Of Weapons	5
Burglary	4
Theft From The Person	4
Robbery	4
Bicycle Theft	2
All Crime	307

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2025

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Kensington (1.75 miles)	1222
Stoneycroft (1.39 miles)	670
Edge Hill (1.24 miles)	668
Liverpool (1.39 miles)	584
Fairfield (1.39 miles)	517
Knotty Ash (1.75 miles)	299
Wavertree	267
Broad Green (1.39 miles)	249
Mossley Hill (1.24 miles)	157
Calderstones (1.75 miles)	81

Where are the most violent places near Wavertree?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Kensington	448
Stoneycroft	302
Fairfield	297
Edge Hill	288
Liverpool	232
Wavertree	178
Knotty Ash	115
Broad Green	106
Mossley Hill	57
Calderstones	32

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

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 Wavertree 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 Wavertree compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Wavertree and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Wavertree is ranked #6.

#	Ward	Score
1	Kensington and Fairfield	89
2	Picton	80
3	Princes Park	78
4	St Michael's	72
5	Wavertree	69
6	Greenbank	67
7	Cressington	54
8	Childwall	50
9	Church	42
10	Mossley Hill	41
11	Woolton	39

Which road in Wavertree has the highest level of crime?

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