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Wirral crime rate and statistics (council area)
Updated October 2026.
Police published 26,027 street-crime records for the Wirral council area from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 3.2% more than in the 12 months before. The rate is 81.3 per 1,000 residents counted in the Census 2021, against 107.1 for Merseyside Police. A residents-only rate reads high where many people visit. Police locations are approximate.
These figures cover the whole area Wirral council runs. Its boundary can differ from the place people call Wirral: it can take in other towns and villages, and part of a town can sit in a neighbouring council area.
September 2025 to August 2026. Street-crime records include anti-social behaviour.
Street-crime records
26,027
Latest month (August 2026)
2,262
Year-on-year
+3.2%
Month-by-month totals
2,4310
2.1k
Sep
2.3k
Oct
2.1k
Nov
2.0k
Dec
1.9k
Jan
2.0k
Feb
2.4k
Mar
2.0k
Apr
2.2k
May
2.3k
Jun
2.4k
Jul
2.3k
Aug
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Month
Street-crime records
September 2025
2,124
October 2025
2,302
November 2025
2,091
December 2025
2,000
January 2026
1,905
February 2026
1,960
March 2026
2,416
April 2026
2,011
May 2026
2,204
June 2026
2,321
July 2026
2,431
August 2026
2,262
Street-crime records per 1,000 residents
Published street-crime records (including anti-social behaviour), September 2025 to August 2026, per 1,000 usual residents in the Census 2021.
Wirral council area
81.3
Merseyside Police
107.1
Residents are the Census 2021 usual residents of every postcode the ONS Postcode Directory places in this council area, added up by CrimeMapsUK from the census postcode counts. Records are assigned through the same postcodes, so both numbers cover the same ground. The total can differ slightly from the council's official population.
26,027 records and 320,132 residents. Residents-only rates overstate crime where many people visit who do not live there, such as city centres, stations, and retail parks. Residents are counted at March 2021 while records are current, so areas with many newer homes can read higher.
No England and Wales comparison is shown, because not every force involved has published every month of this window.
Rates cover England and Wales only. Residents: Office for National Statistics, Census 2021 postcode estimates, Open Government Licence v3.0. How rates are built.
Top crime categories
Share of the Wirral council area's records in the same trailing window. The black line on each bar marks the England and Wales share for the same months.
Violence and sexual offences42.4%
11,029 records · England and Wales 35.5%
Anti-social behaviour12.2%
3,184 records · England and Wales 15.7%
Public order9.3%
2,432 records · England and Wales 6.9%
Criminal damage and arson9.0%
2,350 records · England and Wales 7.0%
Shoplifting6.7%
1,755 records · England and Wales 8.7%
Drugs5.3%
1,385 records · England and Wales 3.4%
Other theft4.9%
1,272 records · England and Wales 6.7%
Burglary2.6%
682 records · England and Wales 3.7%
Where records cluster in the Wirral council area
Records by part of the Wirral council area: the north-east 9,888, the east 4,197, the north 3,874, the south-east 2,611, the north-west 2,093, the west 1,490, the centre 882, the south-west 520, the south 488.
North is at the top. Each hexagon is about 1.1 km across, the size the crime map uses zoomed out, and holds at least one of the Wirral council area's postcodes; darker ones hold more records. Hexagons at the edge also hold records from neighbouring council areas, and the Wirral council area's records placed outside these hexagons are not drawn, so the map's counts won't add up to the page's total. Police place each record at an approximate public point, so this shows which parts of the Wirral council area records cluster in, not where incidents happened. Explore the Wirral council area on the crime map.
Year by year
Calendar-year totals for the Wirral council area (December 2013 to August 2026).
A council area follows the council's boundary (ONS local authority district E08000015), which can differ from the place people call Wirral.
Published locations are approximate, and each record counts for the council area of its nearest postcode, using the council codes in the ONS Postcode Directory. Counts near the boundary are indicative.
These are counts of published police records, not all crime, and not a safety score.
Other sites can show a different figure for Wirral. These counts include anti-social behaviour, cover the 12 published months shown, and assign each record by its nearest postcode. The rate divides by Census 2021 residents of the same postcodes, not by a later mid-year population estimate.
Districts with a page and at least 5% of their live postcodes in this council area. A district can cross a council boundary, so its page counts records on both sides.