Photo: John Bradley · CC BY-SA 3.0Maghull beats 72% of UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people on crime per resident
Violence recorded locally climbed 8% in a year. On burglary, vehicle crime and damage it beats 63% of UK towns; on violent crime, only 36%. Maghull grades C+ for safety overall (#11 of 25 in Merseyside): close to the middle of UK towns, on crimes police recorded inside its built-up area from September 2023 to August 2026. Per 1,000 residents a year, 28.1 violent and sexual offences and 7.9 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage were recorded.
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
What stands out about safety in Maghull
One ward carries much of the rate
Molyneux ward recorded 427 of Maghull’s 1,706 violent and sexual offences in three years: 56.1 per 1,000 of its own residents a year. Across the rest of Maghull the figure is 23.9. Where in Maghull ↓
Violent crime rose over the year
In the 12 months to August 2026 police recorded 8% more violent crime per resident in Maghull than in the year before; across UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people violent crime held steady. Burglary, vehicle crime and criminal damage rose 15% (towns its size: held steady). Trend ↓
Less crime than many places its size
Of 290 UK towns of 14,000 to 27,000 people, Maghull has the 88th lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Peacehaven, Beaconsfield and Ware, higher than Lymington, Great Wyrley and Cheslyn Hay and Stamford. Towns its size ↓
Written from the police.uk and government data on this page. Figures are crimes police recorded, not convictions.
What sits behind Maghull’s C+
A fairly firm grade. Built on 2,185 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Maghull 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
Against the typical town its size, Maghull runs highest on public order (6.2 per 1,000 against 5.4). Other theft and shoplifting sit below it.
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 572 | 28.1 | 30.4 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 139 | 6.8 | 12.4 |
| Public order | not graded | 127 | 6.2 | 5.4 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 108 | 5.3 | 6.2 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 47 | 2.3 | 6.1 |
| Other theft | not graded | 46 | 2.3 | 4.4 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 39 | 1.9 | 2.8 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 32 | 1.6 | 2.4 |
| Drugs | not graded | 32 | 1.6 | 1.9 |
| Other crime | not graded | 23 | 1.1 | 1.8 |
| Robbery | Violent | 11 | 0.5 | 0.5 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 8 | 0.4 | 0.7 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 2 | 0.1 | 0.3 |
| Theft from the person | not graded | 1 | 0 | 0.3 |
“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 of 10,000 to 50,000 people.
How Maghull’s neighbourhoods rank in England
66% of residents live in the lowest-crime 30% of England’s neighbourhoods, and 0% 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.
Maghull’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.
Police in Maghull identify a suspect more often than across UK towns
No suspect was identified for 57% of Maghull’s burglaries, vehicle crimes and criminal damage, against 69% across UK towns, and for 11% of violent and sexual offences against 19%. Most violent cases close as “unable to prosecute” (64% here), usually because the victim doesn’t support a prosecution. About 15% of violent and 13% 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. 712 crimes.
Lowest recorded crime in Park, Sudell and Molyneux; highest in Molyneux
| Ward | Residents | Violent | Homes & vehicles | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Park | 5,163 | 19 | 6.9 | |
| Sudell | 12,666 | 25.9 | 7.8 | |
| Molyneux | 2,538 | 56.1 | 10 |
| At or near | Reports | Mostly |
|---|---|---|
| Supermarkets | 191 | 35% shoplifting & theft |
| Car parks | 171 | 29% violent |
| Petrol stations | 55 | 58% shoplifting & theft |
| Shopping areas | 29 | 34% violent |
A ward’s rate counts crimes where they happened, not where victims live, so Molyneux records 2.3× the violent crime per resident of the rest of Maghull. 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 Maghull. We show only these, never streets or homes.
Crimes per 1,000 residents a year by council ward (the part of each ward inside Maghull’s built-up area), September 2023 to August 2026. Beside it, the public places police.uk named most often.
Maghull is 88th of 290 UK towns of 14,000 to 27,000
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kesgrave Suffolk | 14,947 | 13 | 3.3 | 2.7 | A |
| … | ||||||
| 21 | Formby Merseyside | 22,892 | 19.4 | 6.1 | 8.2 | B+ |
| … | ||||||
| 85 | Lymington Hampshire | 14,870 | 25.8 | 9.7 | 12.6 | C+ |
| 86 | Great Wyrley and Cheslyn Hay Staffordshire | 17,647 | 24.7 | 10.8 | 9.8 | C+ |
| 87 | Stamford Lincolnshire | 20,745 | 27.6 | 8.3 | 13.3 | C+ |
| 88 | Maghull Merseyside | 20,367 | 28.1 | 7.9 | 5.1 | C+ |
| 89 | Frimley Surrey | 15,101 | 26.4 | 9.7 | 7.6 | C+ |
| 90 | Felixstowe Suffolk | 24,218 | 28.1 | 7.9 | 10.3 | C+ |
| 91 | Portishead Somerset | 26,351 | 27.9 | 8.3 | 11.3 | C+ |
| … | ||||||
| 158 | Haydock Merseyside | 16,143 | 33.2 | 12.7 | 11.9 | C |
| … | ||||||
| 206 | Newton-le-Willows Merseyside | 24,651 | 40.6 | 13.5 | 12.4 | C− |
| … | ||||||
| 209 | Litherland Merseyside | 18,752 | 42 | 13.5 | 8.8 | C− |
| … | ||||||
| 290 | Rhyl Clwyd | 26,982 | 89.1 | 22.9 | 29 | 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 Maghull, and others in Merseyside.
How crime in Maghull has moved
“Towns its size” pools all UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people that police.uk covers each month (Greater Manchester has no data).
Rolling six-month rate, per 1,000 residents a year (longer windows for smaller places, where a few crimes swing a month). In the 12 months to August 2026 against the 12 before: violent +8% (towns its size +1%), homes and vehicles +15% (towns its size -2%), shoplifting and theft -3% (towns its size +1%), anti-social behaviour -30% (towns its size -4%).
Crime in Maghull 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 9 burglaries, vehicle crimes or acts of criminal damage, plus 5 shoplifting and theft reports, in the 12 months to August 2026. Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot is one recorded crime.
Two people died in collisions on Maghull’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 78 collisions with injuries inside Maghull in five years, in which two people died (1 was a pedestrian). 28 people were killed or seriously injured: 12 on foot and 4 on a bicycle.
That is about what is typical for UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people: at their median rate (0.9 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Maghull’s size would see about 1 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Maghull’s own rate (2.0) is context, not a ranking.
Counting serious injuries too, Maghull had 27.5 people killed or seriously injured per 100,000 residents a year, above the median for UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people (23.8).
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 Maghull’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Maghull
Maghull records more graded crime per resident than 2 of its 7 neighbours. Lydiate, 1 miles away, records 13.6 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Maghull’s 28.1.
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 Maghull 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 Maghull
Is Maghull safe?
Police recorded 28.1 violent and sexual offences and 7.9 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Maghull’s built-up area). That earns a C+ for safety: less crime per resident than 43% of UK towns. Among 290 UK towns of 14,000 to 27,000 people, Maghull is 88th from the least crime.
What are the safest areas of Maghull?
By council ward, Park, Sudell and Molyneux record the least violent and household crime per resident: 19, 25.9 and 56.1 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 a year (3-year average), against 56.1 in Molyneux.
Is crime going up in Maghull?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime rose 8%, burglary, vehicle crime and damage rose 15%, shoplifting and theft held steady and anti-social behaviour fell 30%. Across UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people, violent crime held steady.
What is the most common crime in Maghull?
Violence & sexual offences: 572 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came public order (127) and criminal damage & arson (108), with 139 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Maghull 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 Maghull’s 28.1 and 7.9, 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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