Ward safety · Liverpool · data through August 2026

How safe is your Liverpool ward?

SafeRoute scores every Liverpool ward 0–100 from street-level incidents reported to Merseyside Police — severity-weighted, within 1 km of each ward's centre, normalised against Liverpool. Higher is safer. The same data powers the SafeRoute app's crime-aware walking routes.

These figures describe reported crime around each ward's centre — they are informational, not a judgment of any community. Liverpool median index: 58/100.

All 64 Liverpool wards, safest first

Methodology

Each street-level incident published by Merseyside Police is weighted by severity — violence counts for more than shoplifting. For every ward we sum weighted incidents within 1 km of its centre, and normalise against Liverpool's own rates onto a 0–100 index, higher = safer. Boundaries are the 64 Liverpool City Council wards from the ONS ward set. The scale is calibrated to Liverpool and cannot be read against another city's number — a Liverpool 55 and a London 55 both mean “typical for this city”, not the same amount of crime. data.police.uk publishes one calendar month at a time, so these pages describe a single month rather than a year, and a typical Liverpool ward carries fewer incidents than a typical inner-London one — so figures here move more from month to month, and small differences between neighbouring wards are not meaningful. Liverpool sits on the Mersey and several waterfront wards have a 1 km circle that is partly river or dock water; where a ward is mostly parkland or dock rather than housing its page says so, because an empty circle reads as a quiet street when it is really no street at all. data.police.uk does not publish incident times, so time-of-day patterns are not shown. Pages regenerate as new data is published.

The index compares areas within Liverpool. It is not comparable between cities: each police force publishes a different set of offences over a different period — Liverpool's figures cannot be read against another city's on the same 0–100 scale.