Crime Statistics for Marshall’s Cross, St Helens, St Helens, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Marshall’s Cross in October 2024. There were a total of 120 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 Marshall’s Cross, 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	16
Anti Social Behaviour	13
Other Theft	7
Drugs	6
Criminal Damage Arson	5
Burglary	4
Vehicle Crime	4
Shoplifting	3
Possession Of Weapons	2
Other Crime	2
Theft From The Person	1
Bicycle Theft	1
Robbery	1
All Crime	120

Map of street level crime incidents in October 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Marshall’s Cross. 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 Marshall’s Cross

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Ravenhead (1.39 miles)	356
Peasley Cross (0.88 miles)	208
Grange Park (1.75 miles)	142
Nut Grove (1.24 miles)	135
Marshall’s Cross	120
Brown Edge (0.88 miles)	120
Thatto Heath (0.88 miles)	120
Lea Green (0.62 miles)	107
Rainhill (1.39 miles)	95
Rainhill Stoops (1.39 miles)	21

Where are the most violent places near Marshall’s Cross?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Ravenhead	151
Peasley Cross	93
Grange Park	61
Brown Edge	60
Thatto Heath	60
Marshall’s Cross	55
Nut Grove	52
Lea Green	42
Rainhill	37
Rainhill Stoops	6

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Marshall’s Cross?

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 Marshall’s Cross 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 Marshall’s Cross compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Town Centre	88
2	Bold	74
3	Sutton	70
4	Thatto Heath	67
5	West Park	67
6	Windle	66
7	Moss Bank	58
8	Prescot South	52
9	Eccleston	33
10	Rainhill	29
11	Farnworth	26

Which road in Marshall’s Cross has the highest level of crime?

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