Total Crime Rate
284.1 per 1,000
All offences · Oct 2024 - Sep 2025Pier Head area has the 21st highest crime rate of 48 local areas in City Centre North , and the 160th highest crime rate of 1,559 local areas in Liverpool .
Neighbouring streets tend to have noticeably higher crime levels than this postcode. Crime here is lower than the average for the surrounding output areas.
The overall crime rate in the area around Pier Head (L3 1BY) in the last 12 months was 284.1 per 1,000 residents and was 44.2% lower than the City Centre North average (508.9 per 1,000 residents). In the last 12 months, this area’s most reported crimes were Drugs with 29 offences recorded. The least common crime was Shoplifting with 1 case , up 100.0% compared to 2024. The fastest-growing crime category was Other crime ( 100.0% YoY). The sharpest decline was Violence and sexual offences ( -14.8% YoY).
Violent crimes totalled 42 (≈ 94.0 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were falling ( -4.5% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has falling ( -27.9% comparing early vs recent averages) .
In the area around Pier Head (L3 1BY), the highest concentration of overall crime is near Parking Area, where police recorded 206 incidents. Violent and public-order offences occur most often near Covent Garden (146 offences). Both locations lie within roughly 0.3 miles of this postcode area.
View Crime In City Centre North| Month | Crime | Location* | Last Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Parking Area | Under investigation |
| Sep 2025 | Theft from the person | Water Street | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Sep 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Castle Hill | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Sep 2025 | Burglary | Hartley Quay | Under investigation |
| Sep 2025 | Drugs | Hartley Quay | Under investigation |
| Sep 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Castle Hill | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Sep 2025 | Other crime | Castle Hill | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Sep 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | High Street | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Sep 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Drury Lane | Under investigation |
| Sep 2025 | Other theft | High Street | Under investigation |
| Sep 2025 | Other theft | High Street | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Sep 2025 | Drugs | High Street | Under investigation |
| Sep 2025 | Criminal damage and arson | Brunswick Street | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Sep 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Water Street | Under investigation |
| Sep 2025 | Bicycle theft | Water Street | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Sep 2025 | Other theft | Castle Hill | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Sep 2025 | Drugs | Castle Street | Under investigation |
| Sep 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Castle Street | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Sep 2025 | Public order | Parking Area | Under investigation |
| Sep 2025 | Robbery | Exchange Passage West | Under investigation |
| Sep 2025 | Vehicle crime | Rumford Street | Under investigation |
| Sep 2025 | Theft from the person | Rumford Street | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Sep 2025 | Burglary | Rumford Street | Under investigation |
| Sep 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Mann Island | Under investigation |
| Sep 2025 | Drugs | Mann Island | Local resolution |
| Sep 2025 | Drugs | Mann Island | Local resolution |
| Sep 2025 | Drugs | Mann Island | Local resolution |
| Sep 2025 | Drugs | Mann Island | Local resolution |
| Sep 2025 | Vehicle crime | Castle Hill | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Sep 2025 | Drugs | Castle Hill | Under investigation |
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