Photo: Tony Grist · Public domainCompared with UK towns and cities of 50,000 or more, Crosby has less crime per resident than nine in ten them
Recorded violence rose 7% in a year. Each year brought 31.2 violent and sexual offences and 11.4 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage for every 1,000 residents. It has more violent crime than 70% of UK towns, and more burglary, vehicle crime and damage than 63%.
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
What stands out about safety in Crosby
Violent crime rose over the year
In the 12 months to August 2026 police recorded 7% more violent crime per resident in Crosby than in the year before; across UK towns and cities of 50,000 or more violent crime held steady. Burglary, vehicle crime and criminal damage fell 9% (towns its size: held steady). Trend ↓
Less crime than many places its size
Of 129 UK towns and cities of 35,000 to 68,000 people, Crosby has the 30th lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Tonbridge, Brentwood and Fareham, higher than Maidenhead, Halesowen and Bishop's Stortford. Towns its size ↓
Many neighbourhoods rank low for crime nationally
The government’s Indices of Deprivation 2025 rank every neighbourhood in England on recorded crime. 11% of Crosby’s residents live in one of the lowest-crime 10%, and 18% in one of the highest-crime 20%. Neighbourhood ranks ↓
Written from the police.uk and government data on this page. Figures are crimes police recorded, not convictions.
Inside Crosby’s C for safety
A firm grade. Built on 6,399 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Crosby against every UK town of 1,000 or more.
Per resident, against all UK towns; beside it, how it compares with towns its size.
What police recorded in the last 12 months
Shoplifting and vehicle crime sit below it.
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 1,552 | 30.9 | 38.6 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 478 | 9.5 | 17.5 |
| Public order | not graded | 322 | 6.4 | 7.4 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 308 | 6.1 | 7.5 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 234 | 4.7 | 10.3 |
| Other theft | not graded | 190 | 3.8 | 6.6 |
| Drugs | not graded | 173 | 3.4 | 3.8 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 120 | 2.4 | 3.4 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 108 | 2.2 | 4.9 |
| Other crime | not graded | 72 | 1.4 | 2.1 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 36 | 0.7 | 0.9 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 33 | 0.7 | 1.1 |
| Robbery | Violent | 23 | 0.5 | 1.4 |
| Theft from the person | not graded | 7 | 0.1 | 0.7 |
“Violent” is police.uk’s violence and sexual offences (which includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury), robbery and possession of weapons. Anti-social behaviour isn’t a crime category; shoplifting and other theft happen mostly in shops and town centres rather than to residents, so neither counts in the grade.
September 2025 to August 2026, per 1,000 residents. The tick on each bar is the typical (median) town among UK towns and cities of 50,000 or more.
30th of 129: Crosby among towns its size
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Metropolitan Castlereagh Lisburn and Castlereagh | 58,763 | 14.8 | 6.6 | 7.1 | A− |
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| 15 | Bebington Merseyside | 57,607 | 25.6 | 8.3 | 8.7 | B− |
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| 27 | Maidenhead Berkshire | 67,391 | 27.5 | 13.8 | 11.3 | C |
| 28 | Halesowen West Midlands | 60,103 | 27.2 | 14.9 | 9.9 | C |
| 29 | Bishop's Stortford Hertfordshire | 40,916 | 28.6 | 13.8 | 15.6 | C |
| 30 | Crosby Merseyside | 50,218 | 31.2 | 11.4 | 8.9 | C |
| 31 | Cheshunt Hertfordshire | 43,694 | 29.7 | 13.1 | 21.9 | C |
| 32 | Hoddesdon Hertfordshire | 40,615 | 29.2 | 13.9 | 15.7 | C |
| 33 | Royal Tunbridge Wells Kent | 51,215 | 30.7 | 13.1 | 18.3 | C |
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| 62 | Huyton with Roby Merseyside | 59,844 | 38.8 | 13.3 | 7.6 | C− |
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| 65 | Prescot Merseyside | 39,227 | 40.6 | 12.4 | 13.1 | C− |
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| 76 | Kirkby Merseyside | 45,559 | 43 | 15 | 10.3 | D |
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| 129 | Bridgwater Somerset | 47,846 | 76.8 | 18.9 | 29.3 | D− |
Safety letters rank against every UK town of 1,000 or more; the order here is context only.
Graded crime per 1,000 residents a year, September 2023 to August 2026, counting from the least: towns ranked near Crosby, and others in Merseyside.
Lowest recorded crime in Blundellsands, Victoria and Manor; highest in Linacre
| Ward | Residents | Violent | Homes & vehicles | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blundellsands | 11,372 | 18.5 | 7.6 | |
| Victoria | 13,324 | 18.7 | 10 | |
| Manor | 10,187 | 26.6 | 9.5 | |
| Church | 12,080 | 50.1 | 15.3 | |
| Linacre | 3,255 | 67.5 | 20.5 |
| At or near | Reports | Mostly |
|---|---|---|
| Car parks | 348 | 33% shoplifting & theft |
| Supermarkets | 175 | 42% shoplifting & theft |
| Petrol stations | 157 | 32% shoplifting & theft |
| Nightclubs | 62 | 44% violent |
| Sports and recreation grounds | 47 | 40% violent |
| College and university buildings | 24 | 50% drugs, public order & other |
A ward’s rate counts crimes where they happened, not where victims live, so Linacre records 2.4× the violent crime per resident of the rest of Crosby. police.uk places each crime at an anonymous map point; some are named for the kind of place (a supermarket, a car park), and each row adds up every place of that kind in Crosby. We show only these, never streets or homes.
Crimes per 1,000 residents a year by council ward (the part of each ward inside Crosby’s built-up area), September 2023 to August 2026. Beside it, the public places police.uk named most often.
How crime in Crosby has moved
“Towns its size” pools all UK towns and cities of 50,000 or more that police.uk covers each month (Greater Manchester has no data).
Rolling three-month rate, per 1,000 residents a year. In the 12 months to August 2026 against the 12 before: violent +7% (towns its size +2%), homes and vehicles -9% (towns its size -5%), shoplifting and theft +5% (towns its size -3%), anti-social behaviour +26% (towns its size -2%).
Crime in Crosby per 1,000 residents
A crime isn’t a victim: one person can report several, and crimes in a town centre often involve visitors rather than residents.
And about 11 burglaries, vehicle crimes or acts of criminal damage, plus 9 shoplifting and theft reports, in the 12 months to August 2026. Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot is one recorded crime.
Police name a suspect about as often as across UK towns
No suspect was identified for 73% of Crosby’s burglaries, vehicle crimes and criminal damage, against 69% across UK towns, and for 14% of violent and sexual offences against 19%. Most violent cases close as “unable to prosecute” (72% here), usually because the victim doesn’t support a prosecution. About 8% of violent and 4% of household crimes reached court.
The latest outcome police.uk shows for each crime recorded in the first of the three years (September 2023 to August 2024), so most cases have closed. 2,157 crimes.
1 in 9 Crosby residents lives in one of England’s lowest-crime neighbourhoods
28% of residents live in the lowest-crime 30% of England’s neighbourhoods, and 18% in the highest-crime 20%. The crime domain scores the risk of violence, burglary, theft and criminal damage where people live, so it can read differently from the town-wide rate, which counts crimes where they happened.
Crosby’s residents by the crime decile of their neighbourhood (LSOA, about 1,500 people) in the English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (crime domain), where 1 is the highest-crime 10% of England’s neighbourhoods and 10 the lowest.
Two people died in collisions on Crosby’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 198 collisions with injuries inside Crosby in five years, in which two people died (2 were pedestrians). 55 people were killed or seriously injured: 22 on foot and 17 on a bicycle.
That is about what is typical for UK towns and cities of 50,000 or more: at their median rate (1.1 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Crosby’s size would see about 3 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Crosby’s own rate (0.8) is context, not a ranking.
Counting serious injuries too, Crosby had 22.1 people killed or seriously injured per 100,000 residents a year, below the median for UK towns and cities of 50,000 or more (30.3). 40% of them were on foot, against 31% across UK towns and cities of 50,000 or more.
Casualties are counted where the collision happened, not where people lived: a main road through town adds through-traffic, and residents’ own risk on roads elsewhere isn’t here. Seriously injured uses the Department for Transport’s adjusted figures, which even out the police forces’ different ways of recording injuries. There’s no national rate here: more than half of road deaths in England and Wales (58%) happen outside every town’s built-up area. Source: DfT road casualty statistics (STATS19), 2021–2025.
Collisions police recorded inside Crosby’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Crosby
Crosby records more graded crime per resident than 4 of its 7 neighbours. Hightown, 3.1 miles away, records 10.3 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Crosby’s 31.2.
Per 1,000 residents a year, the same three years. Tap a town for its safety page.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Where crimes happen, not where victims live. police.uk places each crime at a point near where it happened. Town centres with shops, stations, a hospital and nightlife record more crime per resident, and residents of nearby villages who come in to shop or go out are part of that count.
- Bigger towns record more per resident. Across UK towns, recorded crime per resident rises steeply with size, more than in the U.S., so a city’s grade sits low against the whole UK. The “towns its size” figures show where Crosby sits among towns like it; they are context and don’t change the grade.
- Points are approximate. police.uk moves each point to the nearest of a set of anonymous map points, so crimes near the edge of the built-up area can fall either side of it.
Questions about safety in Crosby
Is Crosby safe?
Police recorded 31.2 violent and sexual offences and 11.4 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Crosby’s built-up area). That earns a C for safety: less crime per resident than 31% of UK towns. Among 129 UK towns of 35,000 to 68,000 people, Crosby is 30th from the least crime. 11% of residents live in neighbourhoods in England’s lowest-crime 10%.
What are the safest areas of Crosby?
By council ward, Blundellsands, Victoria and Manor record the least violent and household crime per resident: 18.5, 18.7 and 26.6 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 a year (3-year average), against 67.5 in Linacre.
Is crime going up in Crosby?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime rose 7%, burglary, vehicle crime and damage fell 9%, shoplifting and theft rose 5% and anti-social behaviour rose 26%. Across UK towns and cities of 50,000 or more, violent crime held steady.
Is Crosby town centre safe at night?
police.uk placed 62 crimes and reports at or near nightclubs in three years, 44% of them violent, and Linacre ward records 67.5 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 of its residents a year. Over the last two years, violent crime peaked in June and was lowest in February.
What is the most common crime in Crosby?
Violence & sexual offences: 1,552 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came public order (322) and criminal damage & arson (308), with 478 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Crosby compare with Liverpool?
Liverpool records 54 violent and sexual offences and 20.2 crimes against homes and vehicles per 1,000 residents a year, against Crosby’s 31.2 and 11.4, over the same three years.
Sources: data.police.uk street-level crime, 36 months to August 2026, points inside the built-up-area boundary · ONS Census 2021, output areas summed to the ONS 2022 built-up area · MHCLG English Indices of Deprivation 2025, crime domain by LSOA (residents from ONS Census 2021) · Department for Transport road casualty statistics (STATS19), collisions 2021–2025, points inside the built-up-area boundary · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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