Total Crime Rate
8.4 per 1,000
All offences · May 2025 - Apr 2026Violent Crime Rate
5.6 per 1,000
May 2025 - Apr 2026Capricorn Crescent area has the lowest crime rate of 24 local areas in Knotty Ash & Dovecot Park , and the 42nd lowest crime rate of 1,552 local areas in Liverpool .
This postcode forms a relatively safe pocket compared with the surrounding streets. Neighbouring areas record much higher crime levels, even though this postcode itself remains comparatively low-crime.
The overall crime rate in the area around Capricorn Crescent (L14 9LS) in the last 12 months was 8.4 per 1,000 residents and was 90.8% lower than the Knotty Ash & Dovecot Park average (90.7 per 1,000 residents). In the last 12 months, this area’s most reported crimes were Public order with 1 offences recorded. The least common crime was Public order with 1 case , unchanged from 2025. All major crime categories fell. The sharpest drop was Violence and sexual offences ( -50.0% YoY).
Violent crimes totalled 2 (≈ 5.6 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were falling ( -33.3% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has falling ( -82.7% comparing early vs recent averages) .
In the area around Capricorn Crescent (L14 9LS), the highest concentration of overall crime is near Back Dovecot Place, where police recorded 45 incidents. Violent and public-order offences occur most often near Fincham Road (29 offences). Both locations lie within roughly 0.3 miles of this postcode area.
View Crime In Liverpool| Month | Crime | Location* | Last Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2026 | Public order | Murcote Road | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Back Dovecot Place | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Aries Close | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Other theft | Finch Lane | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Shellingford Road | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Other theft | Finch Lane | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Ruscombe Road | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Winstone Road | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Winstone Road | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Ruscombe Road | — |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Stonefield Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Stonefield Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Stonefield Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Turriff Road | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Back Dovecot Place | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Shellingford Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Coulport Close | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Leo Close | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Grovehurst Avenue | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Allesley Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Other crime | Grovehurst Avenue | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Grovehurst Avenue | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Coulport Close | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Coulport Close | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Coulport Close | Unable to prosecute suspect |
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