Recorded street-level crime around Kirkby fell to 298 offences in April 2026, down from 359 in the same month a year earlier, according to police.uk figures published by Merseyside Police and the Home Office.
The drop of 61 offences works out at 17% year on year, a clear move in the right direction for the town and one of the larger annual falls in the borough.
The figures come from police.uk, the official street-level crime service. Each incident is plotted at an approximate map point rather than its exact address, and the count covers a radius of about a mile around Kirkby for a single month. The numbers record offences logged by police, not charges or convictions, and a month’s total can shift with how and when incidents are recorded. They show the trend rather than an exact count.
Criminal damage and arson was the largest single category in the April 2026 data. Even so, the overall total sat well below the previous April.
What the published figures cannot show is why crime has fallen, or whether a specific operation, closure or change in reporting lies behind the move. Those questions sit with Merseyside Police, which holds the ward-level detail behind the street-level snapshot.
Residents can check the latest figures for their own street at police.uk. Next month’s update will show whether the fall continues.
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