The Liverpool crime map shows street-level crime recorded by Merseyside Police, published monthly on data.police.uk; on 19 October 2026 the latest month is August 2026. In the 12 months to April 2026 Liverpool recorded 63,381 crimes, a crime rate of 106.43 per 1,000 people, against about 68 for England.
Data: data.police.uk changelog and police.uk neighbourhood pages (Merseyside Police, latest 12 months on each page, ending June or August 2026), CrimeRate.co.uk (12 months to April 2026, excluding anti-social behaviour, last updated 7 June 2026) and the ONS Census 2021 as published by Liverpool City Council (Liverpool 486,100), all checked 19 October 2026. Updated 19 October 2026.
Key figures: the Liverpool crime map (checked 19 October 2026)
- Liverpool crime rate: 106.43 per 1,000 (63,381 crimes, 12 months to April 2026), up 3.3% on 61,368 a year earlier but 13.8% below the 2023 peak of 73,508, CrimeRate shows.
- Liverpool holds 46% of Merseyside’s recorded crime. The rest of Merseyside together runs at about 72 per 1,000, so the city is about 1.5 times higher (our calculation).
- Drug offences run at 4.5 times the England rate (13.04 against 2.88 per 1,000) and explain about a quarter of the gap between Liverpool and England.
- City Centre North recorded 9,147 incidents in 12 months, about 9 times Allerton, Calderstones, Gateacre and Woolton Village combined (982), our count of police.uk data.
- Latest month on the map: August 2026. Merseyside Police supplied it; British Transport Police (Lime Street and other stations) did not.
How do I check crime on a Liverpool street?
To check crime on a Liverpool street, type its postcode into our postcode checker for a 12-month count within one mile, then zoom to the street on the crime map to see where the August 2026 incidents sit. In the centre, many dots near Lime Street or Liverpool ONE are shoplifting or drug offences, not street attacks.
- Enter the postcode. The checker counts police-recorded crime and anti-social behaviour within a one-mile radius, month by month. From a postcode in Kensington, Everton or the Baltic Triangle, one mile reaches the city centre, so expect a high total.
- Zoom in on the map. On the UK crime map, drag to the street and zoom until the clusters split. A stack of dots on one point is usually a shopping street, a station approach, a hospital or a busy junction.
- Read the categories. Shoplifting, drugs and public order describe busy public places; burglary, vehicle crime and criminal damage say more about what residents on a street experience.
- Open the police.uk page for your ward. Merseyside Police’s Liverpool neighbourhood pages follow the city’s wards, each with 12 monthly totals and the local team’s priorities. Check which month the page ends in first.
- Compare with a similar street. Compare a shopping street with another shopping street and a residential road with another residential road. Our Liverpool crime by ward page ranks all 64 wards for one month on one method.
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Which parts of Merseyside record the most and least crime per 1,000 people?
In the 12 months to April 2026, Prescot recorded 114.65 crimes per 1,000, Liverpool 106.43 and Bootle 103.53, the highest of 25 places in Merseyside on CrimeRate. Greasby (22.16), Heswall (29.00) and Eccleston (29.07) recorded the least. CrimeRate treats Liverpool as one place, so the table compares the city with its neighbours.
| Highest (12 months to April 2026) | Crimes | Per 1,000 |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Prescot | 1,773 | 114.65 |
| 2. Liverpool | 63,381 | 106.43 |
| 3. Bootle | 6,446 | 103.53 |
| 4. St Helens | 11,778 | 100.28 |
| 5. Birkenhead | 11,597 | 92.36 |
| Lowest (12 months to April 2026) | Crimes | Per 1,000 |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Greasby | 201 | 22.16 |
| 2. Heswall | 839 | 29.00 |
| 3. Eccleston | 309 | 29.07 |
| 4. Rainford | 274 | 31.25 |
| 5. West Kirby | 463 | 35.02 |
Source: CrimeRate.co.uk, Merseyside (town and city comparison), 12 months to April 2026, last updated 7 June 2026, checked 19 October 2026. Counts exclude anti-social behaviour. Merseyside as a whole: 137,948 crimes, 84.86 per 1,000. CrimeRate uses its own area boundaries and population base, so these are places, not council areas.
Our own arithmetic on these figures: taking Liverpool out of the Merseyside total leaves 74,567 crimes on a base of about 1.03 million people, roughly 72 per 1,000. Liverpool, at 106.43, runs about 1.5 times the rest of the county and 25% above the Merseyside average. Prescot’s higher rate comes from a small place (1,773 crimes), where a busy town centre weighs heavily. These figures count incidents in a place, not the people who live there.
Which Liverpool neighbourhoods record the most crime on the map?
City Centre North recorded 9,147 incidents from September 2025 to August 2026 and City Centre South 5,290, the most in Liverpool on police.uk. Of the residential wards we checked, Kensington and Fairfield recorded 3,836. Allerton (237), Calderstones (207) and Gateacre (200) recorded the fewest. These are counts, not rates.
| Neighbourhood (police.uk) | Incidents, latest 12 months | Period | Top categories, latest month |
|---|---|---|---|
| City Centre North | 9,147 | Sep 2025–Aug 2026 | Violence and sexual offences 230, drugs 146, shoplifting 111, public order 74 (August) |
| City Centre South | 5,290 | Sep 2025–Aug 2026 | Drugs 188, violence and sexual offences 132, other theft 32 (August) |
| Kensington and Fairfield | 3,836 | Sep 2025–Aug 2026 | Violence and sexual offences 143, drugs 40, anti-social behaviour 34 (August) |
| Walton | 2,551 | Jul 2025–Jun 2026 | Violence and sexual offences 97, anti-social behaviour 16, other crime 16 (June) |
| County | 1,984 | Sep 2025–Aug 2026 | Violence and sexual offences 84, public order 16, drugs 14 (August) |
| Anfield | 1,698 | Sep 2025–Aug 2026 | Violence and sexual offences 58, anti-social behaviour 20 (August) |
| Woolton Village | 338 | Sep 2025–Aug 2026 | Violence and sexual offences 6, criminal damage 3, vehicle crime 3 (August) |
| Allerton | 237 | Sep 2025–Aug 2026 | Shoplifting 11, violence and sexual offences 7 (August) |
| Calderstones | 207 | Sep 2025–Aug 2026 | Violence and sexual offences 8, anti-social behaviour 3, vehicle crime 3 (August) |
| Gateacre | 200 | Sep 2025–Aug 2026 | Violence and sexual offences 6, vehicle crime 4, public order 3 (August) |
Source: police.uk neighbourhood pages, Merseyside Police, checked 19 October 2026. Totals include anti-social behaviour; sums are our own calculation. Walton’s page ends in June 2026, two months behind the others, so do not add it to the rest.
Per resident, only one of these wards can be worked out from figures published today. Liverpool City Council gives Kensington and Fairfield a Census 2021 population of 19,585, the largest of the 64 wards. Its 3,836 incidents come to about 196 per 1,000 residents, against about 143 for Liverpool as a whole on the same basis (69,338 crimes and anti-social behaviour reports against 486,100 people), our calculation from different 12-month windows.
The other end of the council’s range shows why per-resident rates mislead in small wards. Waterfront North, with 1,014 residents, recorded 481 incidents in the same 12 months, which would be about 474 per 1,000. That figure says more about how few people live among the docks, offices and attractions than about the risk to anyone who lives there.
The two city-centre wards differ. In August 2026, drug offences were 188 of City Centre South’s 483 incidents (39%), while City Centre North, which takes in Lime Street and the main shops, had more violence and shoplifting. Their teams issued priorities on 30 September and 1 October 2026: youth anti-social behaviour around Williamson Square, retail crime, and drug activity in the Ropewalks during the night-time economy.
What is the Liverpool crime rate and which crimes drive it?
Liverpool’s crime rate was 106.43 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to April 2026, from 63,381 crimes, CrimeRate.co.uk shows. Violence and sexual offences made up 40.1% of the total and drug offences 12.2%. Drugs run at 4.5 times the England rate and public order at about twice; theft from the person is below it.
| Category (12 months to April 2026) | Crimes | Liverpool per 1,000 | England per 1,000 | Liverpool vs England |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence and sexual offences | 25,431 | 42.71 | 28.38 | 1.50× |
| Drugs | 7,762 | 13.04 | 2.88 | 4.53× |
| Public order | 6,692 | 11.23 | 5.45 | 2.06× |
| Criminal damage and arson | 5,196 | 8.73 | 5.81 | 1.50× |
| Shoplifting | 5,185 | 8.70 | 6.75 | 1.29× |
| Other theft | 3,971 | 6.66 | 5.40 | 1.23× |
| Vehicle crime | 2,732 | 4.58 | 4.17 | 1.10× |
| Burglary | 1,858 | 3.12 | 3.02 | 1.03× |
| Other crime | 1,783 | 3.01 | 1.73 | 1.74× |
| Robbery | 830 | 1.39 | 1.16 | 1.20× |
| Possession of weapons | 696 | 1.17 | 0.79 | 1.48× |
| Bicycle theft | 627 | 1.05 | 0.71 | 1.48× |
| Theft from the person | 618 | 1.04 | 1.54 | 0.68× |
| Total (excluding anti-social behaviour) | 63,381 | 106.43 | 67.79 | 1.57× |
| Anti-social behaviour (not in the total) | 5,957 | 10.01 | 12.96 | 0.77× |
Source: CrimeRate.co.uk, Liverpool and the England rates on CrimeRate.co.uk, London, 12 months to April 2026 (last updated 7 June 2026), checked 19 October 2026. The 13 categories add up exactly to the 63,381 headline; ratios are our own calculation.
Our breakdown of the gap: Liverpool records 38.64 more crimes per 1,000 than England. Violence accounts for 14.33 of that (37%), drugs for 10.16 (26%) and public order for 5.78 (15%), so three categories explain nearly four-fifths of the difference. Drug offences are mostly found by police through stop and search and operations rather than reported by victims, so a high drugs rate says a lot about where Merseyside Police is looking. Anti-social behaviour is the one big category where Liverpool sits below England.
Per resident, the 63,381 crimes against the 486,100 people counted in the Census 2021 come to about 130 per 1,000 (our calculation; CrimeRate’s own population base is larger). For the full verdict on the city, read Is Liverpool safe?.
Why does the same Liverpool street look busier in some months?
Because recorded crime in the busiest Liverpool wards jumps from month to month. In City Centre North, City Centre South and Kensington and Fairfield together, February 2026 was the quietest month (1,339 incidents) and March 2026 the busiest (1,696), 27% more, by our count of police.uk data.
Quiet wards swing even more in percentage terms because the numbers are small: Allerton recorded 28 incidents in September 2025 but 10 in December, and Woolton Village fell from 34 in May 2026 to 17 in July. One month on the crime map is a snapshot. To choose between two streets, use the 12-month total in the postcode checker and compare the same months for both.
What does the Liverpool crime map not show?
The Liverpool crime map does not show exact addresses, the time of day, unreported crime or the most recent weeks. On 19 October 2026 the latest month is August 2026, British Transport Police data is missing for June to August 2026, and some ward pages, such as Walton, end in June 2026.
| Not on the map | Why it matters in Liverpool |
|---|---|
| Exact locations | Every crime is moved to an anonymous point over a street or public place covering at least eight addresses. A dot on Church Street can stand for a shop anywhere nearby. |
| Station crime, June to August 2026 | Lime Street, Central and Moorfields are policed by British Transport Police, which did not supply those months, the data.police.uk changelog shows. |
| Uneven lag | Most Liverpool ward pages end in August 2026, but Walton ends in June 2026. Compare the same months. |
| Time of day | Street-level data has the month only, so it cannot separate a daytime shopping street from the late-night Ropewalks. |
| Rate per resident | The map shows counts. The city centre and the docks have few residents and very large numbers of shoppers, students, fans and visitors. |
| Unreported crime | Only police-recorded crime appears. |
Our guide to the police crime map explains the anonymous points and the missing forces, and where our crime data comes from covers how we process the data.
Where can I read more about crime in Liverpool?
For a verdict on safety rather than a map, read Is Liverpool safe?. For all 64 wards on one method see Liverpool crime by ward, for the quieter end of the city safest areas in Liverpool, and for an earlier snapshot crime in Liverpool: what the police data shows. Crime maps for other cities: London, Leeds, Bristol and Manchester.
Liverpool crime map: FAQ
Is there a crime map for Liverpool?
Yes. Our crime map and police.uk both show street-level crime for every part of Liverpool from official Merseyside Police data, free and without an account. The latest month on 19 October 2026 is August 2026.
What is the crime rate in Liverpool?
106.43 crimes per 1,000 people in the 12 months to April 2026 (63,381 crimes excluding anti-social behaviour), according to CrimeRate.co.uk, against 84.86 for Merseyside and about 68 for England. Per resident, using the Census 2021 population of 486,100, it is about 130 per 1,000.
Which area of Liverpool has the most crime?
By count, City Centre North (9,147 incidents, September 2025 to August 2026) and City Centre South (5,290) record the most on police.uk, followed by Kensington and Fairfield (3,836). The centre’s totals reflect shoppers, nightlife and visitors as much as residents.
Which area of Liverpool has the least crime?
Of the wards we checked on police.uk, Gateacre (200 incidents), Calderstones (207) and Allerton (237) recorded the fewest from September 2025 to August 2026, all in the south of the city. Our safest areas in Liverpool page covers the quiet wards in more detail.
Can I check crime by Liverpool postcode?
Yes. Enter any Liverpool postcode in our postcode checker to see 12 months of recorded crime within one mile, split by category. It cannot show a single house, because the police data is anonymised.
For what to do after a crime or a frightening incident, see our sister site safety-app.co.uk.
Sources: data.police.uk changelog; police.uk neighbourhood pages for Merseyside Police; CrimeRate.co.uk Liverpool and Merseyside; ONS Census 2021 via Liverpool City Council. Police data under the Open Government Licence v3.0.