Crime Statistics for Higher Bebington, Wirral, Wirral, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Higher Bebington in September 2024. There were a total of 46 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Shoplifting.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Higher Bebington, 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	17
Shoplifting	6
Anti Social Behaviour	6
Criminal Damage Arson	5
Public Order	5
Other Crime	3
Bicycle Theft	1
Burglary	1
Drugs	1
Other Theft	1
All Crime	46

Map of street level crime incidents in September 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Higher Bebington. 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 Higher Bebington

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Claughton (1.96 miles)	234
New Ferry (1.86 miles)	118
Port Sunlight (1.39 miles)	95
Bromborough Pool (1.96 miles)	90
Lower Bebington (1.75 miles)	85
Landican (1.86 miles)	80
Higher Bebington	46
Bebington (1.75 miles)	44
Storeton (0.88 miles)	5
Brimstage (1.96 miles)	2

Where are the most violent places near Higher Bebington?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Claughton	109
New Ferry	90
Lower Bebington	50
Bebington	43
Bromborough Pool	42
Port Sunlight	41
Landican	23
Higher Bebington	17
Storeton	1
Brimstage	0

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

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 Higher Bebington 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 Higher Bebington compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Birkenhead and Tranmere	85
2	Bidston and St James	80
3	Rock Ferry	71
4	Claughton	62
5	Oxton	59
6	Bromborough	51
7	Prenton	51
8	Bebington	34
9	Greasby, Frankby and Irby	20
10	Pensby and Thingwall	18
11	Clatterbridge	10

Which road in Higher Bebington has the highest level of crime?

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