Crime Statistics for Dove Point, Wirral, Wirral, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Dove Point in October 2024. There were a total of 38 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Anti Social Behaviour	12
Violent Crime	12
Shoplifting	4
Criminal Damage Arson	3
Public Order	2
Other Theft	1
Burglary	1
Vehicle Crime	1
Other Crime	1
Drugs	1
All Crime	38

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 Dove Point. 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 Dove Point

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Bidston (3.1 miles)	174
Moreton (1.86 miles)	171
Bidston Hill (3.16 miles)	165
Arrowe Hill (3.1 miles)	164
Leasowe (2.56 miles)	147
Dove Point	38
Grange (2.56 miles)	35
Greasby (2.24 miles)	20
Newton (1.86 miles)	15
Frankby (2.56 miles)	9

Where are the most violent places near Dove Point?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Arrowe Hill	63
Moreton	55
Bidston Hill	53
Leasowe	48
Bidston	47
Dove Point	12
Greasby	11
Grange	9
Newton	6
Frankby	4

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

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 Dove Point 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 Dove Point compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Dove Point and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Dove Point is ranked #8.

#	Ward	Score
1	Bidston and St James	80
2	Leasowe and Moreton East	63
3	Claughton	62
4	Prenton	51
5	Moreton West and Saughall Massie	43
6	Upton	41
7	Wallasey	41
8	Hoylake and Meols	29
9	West Kirby and Thurstaston	25
10	Greasby, Frankby and Irby	20
11	Pensby and Thingwall	18

Which road in Dove Point has the highest level of crime?

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