Crime Statistics for Litchard, Wild Mill, Bridgend, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Litchard in September 2024. There were a total of 204 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Litchard, this category is usually the largest in any urban area. This is partly because 'Violent Crime' covers so many offences compared to say Burglary

Crime Category	Incidents
Violent Crime	85
Anti Social Behaviour	36
Public Order	19
Shoplifting	16
Criminal Damage Arson	13
Other Theft	12
Drugs	8
Vehicle Crime	6
Other Crime	4
Theft From The Person	2
Bicycle Theft	1
Possession Of Weapons	1
Robbery	1
All Crime	204

Map of street level crime incidents in September 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Litchard. This map shows if incidents are evenly distributed over the district or if there are hot spots in certain streets or areas.

Where Police data is not specific to an address for privacy reasons, most roads are represented by 1 to 2 markers or clusters. However, this should be enough to ascertain if the road you live in or are thinking of moving to, is a crime hot spot. The only exception could be where there is a large cluster of a single crime category on a street, as this could but not necessarily be related to multiple incidents at one address.

Crime incidents in neighbouring areas to Litchard

We've taken the ten nearest places to Litchard and ranked them by the number of crime incidents in each. This should allow you to see if Litchard has more crime than other surrounding areas.

Location	Crime Incidents
Pendre	315
Litchard	204
Bridgend (Pen-y-bont Ar Ogwr) (0.62 miles)	189
Byeastwood (1.24 miles)	169
Newcastle (1.24 miles)	167
Cymdda (1.24 miles)	148
Coity (1.24 miles)	128
Pant-y-pyllau (1.39 miles)	109
Bryntirion (1.39 miles)	54
Ty’n-y-garn (0.88 miles)	50

Where are the most violent places near Litchard?

The category of crime that most concerns people is violent crime. We have taken the ten nearest place to Litchard and ranked them according to the number of violent incidents in the 'best fit' Policing neighbourhood.

Location	Violent Incidents
Pendre	162
Bridgend (Pen-y-bont Ar Ogwr)	152
Cymdda	127
Byeastwood	116
Litchard	85
Coity	67
Pant-y-pyllau	65
Newcastle	59
Ty’n-y-garn	24
Bryntirion	22

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Litchard?

Every two years the government publishes the Index of Multiple Deprivation. One of those domains is crime, more precisely, how likely you are to be the victim of a what is known as 'personal crime', such as muggings or burglary. The governemnt publish these statitsics down to the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) or in simple geographic terms, a few roads. These statistics are also published on a ward level as an average of the LSOAs in that area. We have taken the average rank and converted it into a more accessble form, a score out of 100. Where the higher the score, the more likely you are in Litchard to be a victim of personal crime. Note that the following score has been generated from the 2019 statistics. At the time of writing, these have not been updated by the government during and since the COVID 19 pandemic.

How does crime in Litchard compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Litchard and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Resident in Litchard have the lowest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Morfa.

#	Ward	Score
1	Morfa	98
2	Coychurch Lower	98
3	Oldcastle	97
4	Newcastle	96
5	Pendre	96
6	Coity	96
7	Brackla	95
8	Cefn Glas	95
9	Llangewydd and Brynhyfryd	95
10	Pen-y-fai	95
11	Litchard	95

Which road in Litchard has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Litchard with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around Garfield Avenue.