Total Crime Rate
169.9 per 1,000
All offences · Oct 2024 - Sep 2025Oban Road area has the 22nd highest crime rate of 78 local areas in Anfield , and the 343rd highest crime rate of 1,559 local areas in Liverpool .
Crime levels at this postcode are much higher than in the adjoining streets, suggesting that most neighbouring areas are relatively safer than this one.
The overall crime rate in the area around Oban Road (L4 2SA) in the last 12 months was 169.9 per 1,000 residents and was 20.5% higher than the Anfield average (141.1 per 1,000 residents). In the last 12 months, this area’s most reported crimes were Violence and sexual offences with 26 offences recorded. The least common crime was Bicycle theft with 1 case , unchanged from 2024. The fastest-growing crime category was Drugs ( 1000.0% YoY). The sharpest decline was Criminal damage and arson ( -88.9% YoY).
Violent crimes totalled 39 (≈ 108.6 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were falling ( -25.0% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has rising ( 4.8% comparing early vs recent averages) .
In the area around Oban Road (L4 2SA), the highest concentration of overall crime is near Abbey Road, where police recorded 58 incidents. Violent and public-order offences occur most often near St David'S Road (25 offences). Both locations lie within roughly 0.3 miles of this postcode area.
View Crime In Anfield| Month | Crime | Location* | Last Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2025 | Criminal damage and arson | Chapel Road | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Sep 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Holbeck Street | Under investigation |
| Sep 2025 | Public order | Cathedral Road | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Sep 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | St Andrew Road | Under investigation |
| Sep 2025 | Criminal damage and arson | Elderdale Road | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Sep 2025 | Other crime | Ettington Road | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Sep 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Abbey Road | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Sep 2025 | Public order | Douglas Road | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Sep 2025 | Criminal damage and arson | Beechdene Road | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Sep 2025 | Public order | Sedley Street | Under investigation |
| Sep 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Sedley Street | Under investigation |
| Sep 2025 | Other crime | Sedley Street | Under investigation |
| Sep 2025 | Drugs | Abbey Road | Local resolution |
| Sep 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Clovelly Road | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Sep 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Holbeck Street | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Sep 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Oban Road | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Sep 2025 | Drugs | St David'S Road | Under investigation |
| Sep 2025 | Other crime | Oban Road | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Sep 2025 | Possession of weapons | Pendennis Street | Under investigation |
| Sep 2025 | Anti-social behaviour | Twyford Street | — |
| Sep 2025 | Theft from the person | Twyford Street | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Sep 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Bingley Road | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Sep 2025 | Vehicle crime | Skipton Road | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Sep 2025 | Drugs | Dewsbury Road | Under investigation |
| Sep 2025 | Public order | Taplow Street | Further investigation is not in the public interest |
| Sep 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Taplow Street | Further investigation is not in the public interest |
| Sep 2025 | Public order | Wenlock Road | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Sep 2025 | Violence and sexual offences | Wenlock Road | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Sep 2025 | Public order | Twickenham Street | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Sep 2025 | Vehicle crime | Hanwell Street | Under investigation |
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