Crime Statistics for Maesglas, Newport, City of Newport, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Maesglas in September 2024. There were a total of 241 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 Maesglas, 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	97
Anti Social Behaviour	36
Public Order	32
Criminal Damage Arson	22
Vehicle Crime	16
Other Crime	10
Burglary	10
Drugs	6
Other Theft	6
Possession Of Weapons	2
Robbery	2
Shoplifting	2
All Crime	241

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 Maesglas. 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 Maesglas

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Pillgwenlly (1.76 miles)	1023
Stow Park (1.39 miles)	566
Maesglas	228
Duffryn	185
Caerau Park (1.24 miles)	169
Allt-yr-yn (1.86 miles)	135
High Cross (1.96 miles)	90
Rhiwderin (2.24 miles)	38
Bassaleg (1.39 miles)	18
Coedkernew (1.75 miles)	3

Where are the most violent places near Maesglas?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Pillgwenlly	369
Stow Park	250
Maesglas	97
Duffryn	96
Caerau Park	60
High Cross	58
Allt-yr-yn	54
Rhiwderin	16
Bassaleg	8
Coedkernew	1

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

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 Maesglas 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 Maesglas compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Maesglas and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Maesglas is ranked #4.

#	Ward	Score
1	Stow Hill	99
2	Pillgwenlly	99
3	Bettws	99
4	Tredegar Park	99
5	Victoria	99
6	St. Julians	98
7	Gaer	98
8	Shaftesbury	98
9	Allt-yr-yn	98
10	Marshfield	97
11	Rogerstone	96

Which road in Maesglas has the highest level of crime?

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