Birkenhead
England · E14001091
12,378 crimes recorded in the last 12 months – violence & sexual offences is the most common, rising versus the year before.
Recorded crimes (last 12m)
12,378
Most common
Violence & sexual offences rising
4,892 reports
Data to
Apr 2026
Crimes per month
1,278/mo peak0 baseline
May 23Apr 26
By type (last 12 months)
| Category | Reports | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offencesrising | 4,892 | 39.5% |
| Public orderfalling | 1,307 | 10.6% |
| Anti-social behaviourrising | 1,286 | 10.4% |
| Criminal damage & arsonrising | 1,124 | 9.1% |
| Shopliftingrising | 967 | 7.8% |
| Drugsfalling | 870 | 7.0% |
| Other theftrising | 583 | 4.7% |
| Vehicle crimefalling | 376 | 3.0% |
| Burglaryrising | 314 | 2.5% |
| Other crimerising | 304 | 2.5% |
| Possession of weaponsfalling | 132 | 1.1% |
| Robberyrising | 115 | 0.9% |
| Bicycle theftfalling | 79 | 0.6% |
| Theft from the personfalling | 29 | 0.2% |
The open street-level feed merges violence and sexual offences into one category. Splitting them (e.g. homicide vs sexual assault) needs ONS force-level tables, modelled to constituency in a later step.
Partial coverageSource: Street-level crime, data.police.uk (Home Office)· How we know this· Hide
- Source
- Street-level crime
- Publisher
- data.police.uk (Home Office)
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0
- Retrieved
- 2026-09-18
- How it's mapped
- Aggregated from smaller areas to the constituency on a best-fit basis.
Some areas or categories are missing from this source, so treat it as partial.
Source: data.police.uk, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.