Crime Statistics for Blowick, Sefton, Sefton, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Blowick in September 2024. There were a total of 393 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 Blowick, 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	194
Shoplifting	30
Criminal Damage Arson	28
Anti Social Behaviour	24
Other Theft	22
Vehicle Crime	20
Burglary	18
Public Order	18
Drugs	18
Other Crime	11
Bicycle Theft	4
Possession Of Weapons	2
Theft From The Person	2
Robbery	2
All Crime	393

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 Blowick. 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 Blowick

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Churchtown (1.24 miles)	616
Southport (0.88 miles)	500
Blowick	391
Birkdale (1.39 miles)	97
Marshside (1.96 miles)	70
Crossens (2.24 miles)	52
Pool Hey (0.88 miles)	51
Brown Edge (1.39 miles)	21
Carr Cross (1.75 miles)	5
Shirdley Hill (2.48 miles)	3

Where are the most violent places near Blowick?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Churchtown	257
Southport	197
Blowick	194
Birkdale	49
Crossens	41
Marshside	32
Pool Hey	25
Brown Edge	12
Carr Cross	2
Shirdley Hill	1

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

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 Blowick 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 Blowick compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Blowick and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Blowick is ranked #2.

#	Ward	Score
1	Duke's	55
2	Kew	42
3	Halsall	41
4	Norwood	37
5	Ainsdale	36
6	Cambridge	34
7	Birkdale	32
8	North Meols	29
9	Harington	22
10	Meols	19
11	Scarisbrick	12

Which road in Blowick has the highest level of crime?

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