Crime Statistics for Formby, Sefton, Sefton, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Formby in August 2024. There were a total of 59 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 Formby, 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	20
Anti Social Behaviour	11
Other Theft	8
Burglary	7
Shoplifting	6
Public Order	3
Criminal Damage Arson	3
Drugs	1
All Crime	59

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 Formby. 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 Formby

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Little Crosby (3.93 miles)	130
Formby	59
Little Altcar (0.88 miles)	55
Ainsdale (3.34 miles)	53
Freshfield (0.62 miles)	40
Blundellsands (4.24 miles)	27
Lady Green (2.78 miles)	14
Carr Houses (3.1 miles)	5
Great Altcar (1.96 miles)	4
Ince Blundell (3.1 miles)	3

Where are the most violent places near Formby?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Little Crosby	116
Formby	20
Little Altcar	19
Ainsdale	19
Freshfield	14
Blundellsands	11
Great Altcar	3
Lady Green	2
Carr Houses	1
Ince Blundell	1

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

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 Formby 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 Formby compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Formby and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Resident in Formby have the lowest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is St Oswald.

#	Ward	Score
1	St Oswald	76
2	Manor	46
3	Victoria	44
4	Halsall	41
5	Ainsdale	36
6	Birkdale	32
7	Blundellsands	31
8	Sudell	27
9	Aughton and Downholland	23
10	Ravenmeols	23
11	Harington	22

Which road in Formby has the highest level of crime?

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