Total Crime Rate
554.8 per 1,000
All offences · Nov 2024 - Oct 2025Violent Crime Rate
280.8 per 1,000
Nov 2024 - Oct 2025Speke Road area has the highest crime rate of 54 local areas in Much Woolton & Hunts Cross , and the 52nd highest crime rate of 1,558 local areas in Liverpool .
This postcode sits in a local crime hotspot. Overall crime levels here are significantly higher than in the surrounding streets and the wider area.
The overall crime rate in the area around Speke Road (L25 7TJ) in the last 12 months was 554.8 per 1,000 residents and was 724.7% higher than the Much Woolton & Hunts Cross average (67.3 per 1,000 residents). In the last 12 months, this area’s most reported crimes were Violence and sexual offences with 29 offences recorded. The least common crime was Vehicle crime with 2 cases , up 100.0% compared to 2024. The fastest-growing crime category was Drugs ( 133.3% YoY). The sharpest decline was Public order ( -29.4% YoY).
Violent crimes totalled 41 (≈ 280.8 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were falling ( -12.8% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has falling ( -37.5% comparing early vs recent averages) .
In the area around Speke Road (L25 7TJ), the highest concentration of overall crime is near Parking Area, where police recorded 42 incidents. Violent and public-order offences occur most often near Woolton Street (21 offences). Both locations lie within roughly 0.3 miles of this postcode area.
View Crime In Much Woolton & Hunts Cross| Month | Crime | Location* | Last Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 2025 | Criminal damage and arson | Mill Street | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Oct 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Woolton Street | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Oct 2025 | Anti-social behaviour | Mill Street | — |
| Oct 2025 | Criminal damage and arson | Church Road South | Under investigation |
| Oct 2025 | Public order | Priory Way | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Oct 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Church Road South | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Oct 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Church Road South | Under investigation |
| Oct 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Church Road South | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Oct 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Woolton Street | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Oct 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Parking Area | Under investigation |
| Oct 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Rockhill Road | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Oct 2025 | Other theft | Woolton Street | Further investigation is not in the public interest |
| Oct 2025 | Public order | Parking Area | Further investigation is not in the public interest |
| Oct 2025 | Other theft | Woolton Street | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Oct 2025 | Anti-social behaviour | Woolton Street | — |
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