Crime Statistics for Buckley Hill, Sefton, Sefton, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Buckley Hill in September 2024. There were a total of 224 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Buckley Hill, 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 Crime97
Anti Social Behaviour32
Criminal Damage Arson21
Public Order17
Drugs14
Burglary11
Shoplifting11
Vehicle Crime7
Other Theft5
Bicycle Theft4
Other Crime3
Possession Of Weapons1
Robbery1
All Crime224

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 Buckley Hill. 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 Buckley Hill

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Aintree (1.96 miles)392
Litherland (0.88 miles)322
Waterloo Park (1.39 miles)247
Buckley Hill224
Great Crosby (1.24 miles)220
Waterloo (1.49 miles)180
Netherton (0.88 miles)169
Little Crosby (2.24 miles)130
Crosby (2.07 miles)108
Homer Green (1.86 miles)16

4.56%
of Ford residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Buckley Hill?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Aintree186
Litherland139
Waterloo Park129
Little Crosby116
Buckley Hill97
Great Crosby94
Waterloo72
Netherton72
Crosby48
Homer Green4

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

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 Buckley Hill 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 Buckley Hill compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1St Oswald76
2Ford73
3Warbreck72
4Derby71
5Church68
6Litherland68
7Netherton and Orrell56
8Manor46
9Victoria44
10Blundellsands31
11Park24

Which road in Buckley Hill has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: September 2024
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