Crime Statistics for New Brighton, Wirral, Wirral, 2024

Is New Brighton rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for October 2024. There were a total of 262 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 New Brighton, 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	105
Anti Social Behaviour	52
Criminal Damage Arson	31
Public Order	30
Other Theft	11
Shoplifting	10
Drugs	8
Vehicle Crime	4
Other Crime	3
Burglary	3
Possession Of Weapons	3
Bicycle Theft	2
All Crime	262

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 New Brighton. 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 New Brighton

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Wallasey (0.62 miles)	448
Liscard (0.62 miles)	384
Birkenhead (3.11 miles)	264
New Brighton	244
Bidston (2.24 miles)	174
Moreton (3.1 miles)	171
Sandhills (1.86 miles)	170
Bidston Hill (2.78 miles)	165
Leasowe (2.24 miles)	147
Bootle (1.96 miles)	137

Where are the most violent places near New Brighton?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Wallasey	210
Liscard	192
New Brighton	105
Birkenhead	95
Moreton	55
Bidston Hill	53
Leasowe	48
Bidston	47
Sandhills	42
Bootle	37

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

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 New Brighton 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 New Brighton compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Everton	91
2	Linacre	90
3	Birkenhead and Tranmere	85
4	Seacombe	80
5	Bidston and St James	80
6	Kirkdale	78
7	Liscard	71
8	Leasowe and Moreton East	63
9	New Brighton	62
10	Claughton	62
11	Wallasey	41

Which road in New Brighton has the highest level of crime?

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