Annual crime rate in Merseyside county is 10.8, i.e. 10.8 crimes reported per annum per 1000 workday people. Compared to the national crime rate, Merseyside's crime rate is at 130%. Criminal damage and arson crime makes up 8.6% of all crimes reported in the county. The total number of "criminal damage and arson crime" is 14.8k, and this number has decreased by 4.5% when compared year-over-year in the period of September 2019 - August 2020.
September 2019 - August 2020
Criminal damage and arson crime rate is 10.8 crimes reported per 1,000 working people per annum. It's the 8. highest crime rate out of 55 England and Wales' counties.
The total number of "criminal damage and arson crime" is 14.8k, and this number has decreased by 4.5% when compared year-over-year in the period of September 2019 - August 2020. In the graph below, county are compared by crime rate and crime rate percentage change. Crime rate percentage change compares the county crime rate between September 2019 - August 2020 to the county crime rate in the previous 12 months. The size of the circle reflects the number of total crimes reported. The bigger the circle, the higher the number of crimes reported in the county.
Crime rate percentage changeMonthly crime volumes till August 2020.
Annual crime rate per 1000 workday people
Total number of crimes reported in a given calendar month (1 = January … 12 = December) in the previous five years, i.e. from 2015 till 2019.
