Crime in Liverpool
Thinking about Liverpool? This is the recent street-level crime recorded around the centre of Liverpool, Merseyside, straight from the police and grouped by category.
Counts show where crimes were recorded, not how likely you are to be affected — a busy city centre always shows more than the quieter streets around it. To check a specific area, run its postcode through the crime checker. Comparing nearby? Try manchester, leeds, sheffield too.
Last updated: August 2026
Recorded crime near Liverpool centre
1,415crimes recorded in September 2026
- Violence & sexual offences 360
- Shoplifting 217
- Drugs 202
- Anti-social behaviour 156
- 10 other categories 480
Every category
- Violence & sexual offences360
- Shoplifting217
- Drugs202
- Anti-social behaviour156
- Public order143
- Other theft98
- Criminal damage & arson64
- Burglary36
- Theft from the person36
- Vehicle crime30
- Other crime25
- Robbery21
- Possession of weapons16
- Bicycle theft11
This is the recorded crime around the centre of Liverpool. For a specific neighbourhood, open the crime checker and enter the postcode to centre the results there — with how to read the numbers and where the data comes from.
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Common questions
- Is Liverpool a safe place to live?
- No single number answers that. The figures here show recorded crime near the centre of Liverpool for the latest month available. For the areas you're actually considering, compare a few specific postcodes in the crime checker.
- Why is the Liverpool crime data a couple of months old?
- Police forces publish to data.police.uk about two to three months in arrears, and it updates monthly, so the latest full month is always slightly behind. We label the month shown.
- Does this cover the whole of Liverpool?
- It's the crime recorded within about a mile of the centre of Liverpool. For a specific neighbourhood, enter its postcode in the crime checker to centre the results there.