Crime Statistics for Holt, Knowsley, St Helens, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Holt in August 2024. There were a total of 158 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 Holt, 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	55
Public Order	27
Criminal Damage Arson	24
Anti Social Behaviour	20
Drugs	8
Other Theft	6
Shoplifting	6
Vehicle Crime	4
Other Crime	3
Burglary	2
Possession Of Weapons	2
Bicycle Theft	1
All Crime	158

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 Holt. 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 Holt

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Portico (1.24 miles)	347
Nut Grove (0.88 miles)	243
Eccleston Park (1.39 miles)	240
Holt	158
Brown Edge (1.75 miles)	148
Thatto Heath (1.75 miles)	148
Lea Green (1.39 miles)	116
Marshall’s Cross (1.96 miles)	107
Rainhill (0.62 miles)	87
Rainhill Stoops (1.39 miles)	14

Where are the most violent places near Holt?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Portico	158
Nut Grove	95
Eccleston Park	87
Lea Green	75
Brown Edge	65
Thatto Heath	65
Holt	55
Marshall’s Cross	44
Rainhill	33
Rainhill Stoops	1

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

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 Holt 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 Holt compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Bold	74
2	Hough Green	69
3	Thatto Heath	67
4	St Michaels	67
5	St Gabriels	56
6	Whiston and Cronton	54
7	Prescot South	52
8	Eccleston	33
9	Rainhill	29
10	Birchfield	29
11	Farnworth	26

Which road in Holt has the highest level of crime?

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