Crime Statistics for Great Crosby, Sefton, Sefton, 2025

Is Great Crosby rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 295 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 Great Crosby, 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	115
Anti Social Behaviour	46
Public Order	30
Shoplifting	24
Vehicle Crime	22
Drugs	22
Other Theft	14
Criminal Damage Arson	10
Bicycle Theft	6
Other Crime	2
Robbery	2
Burglary	2
All Crime	295

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 Great Crosby. 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 Great Crosby

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Litherland (0.88 miles)	458
Great Crosby	276
Buckley Hill (1.24 miles)	253
Waterloo (0.62 miles)	229
Waterloo Park (0.62 miles)	154
Netherton (1.96 miles)	142
Crosby (0.91 miles)	83
Blundellsands (1.36 miles)	60
Little Crosby (1.39 miles)	56
Brighton le Sands (1.24 miles)	44

Where are the most violent places near Great Crosby?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Litherland	175
Great Crosby	115
Buckley Hill	111
Waterloo	103
Netherton	62
Waterloo Park	60
Blundellsands	34
Crosby	29
Brighton le Sands	18
Little Crosby	17

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

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 Great Crosby 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 Great Crosby compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Great Crosby and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Great Crosby is ranked #9.

#	Ward	Score
1	Linacre	90
2	St Oswald	76
3	Ford	73
4	Derby	71
5	Church	68
6	Litherland	68
7	Netherton and Orrell	56
8	Manor	46
9	Victoria	44
10	Blundellsands	31
11	Ravenmeols	23

Which road in Great Crosby has the highest level of crime?

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