Crime Statistics for Port Sunlight, Wirral, Wirral, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Port Sunlight in October 2024. There were a total of 149 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 Port Sunlight, 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime60
Anti Social Behaviour23
Public Order19
Criminal Damage Arson8
Vehicle Crime7
Drugs7
Shoplifting7
Other Theft6
Burglary4
Possession Of Weapons4
Other Crime2
Bicycle Theft2
All Crime149

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 Port Sunlight. 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 Port Sunlight

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

LocationCrime Incidents
New Ferry (0.88 miles)112
Spital (0.88 miles)103
Port Sunlight101
Bromborough (1.39 miles)97
Bromborough Pool (0.62 miles)92
Higher Bebington (1.39 miles)61
Lower Bebington (0.62 miles)40
Bebington (0.62 miles)40
Storeton (1.86 miles)7
Brimstage (2.24 miles)2

5.56%
of Bromborough residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Port Sunlight?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Port Sunlight60
New Ferry46
Spital34
Bromborough30
Bromborough Pool29
Higher Bebington26
Lower Bebington23
Bebington19
Storeton1
Brimstage0

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

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 Port Sunlight 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 Port Sunlight compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Port Sunlight and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Port Sunlight is ranked #5.

#WardScore
1Birkenhead and Tranmere85
2St Michael's72
3Rock Ferry71
4Oxton59
5Bromborough51
6Prenton51
7Bebington34
8Willaston & Thornton28
9Eastham25
10Pensby and Thingwall18
11Clatterbridge10

Which road in Port Sunlight has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: October 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
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