Crime Statistics for Maesycoed, Pontypridd, Rhondda, Cynon, Taff, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Maesycoed in September 2024. There were a total of 207 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Public Order.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Maesycoed, 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	84
Public Order	40
Shoplifting	28
Other Theft	16
Anti Social Behaviour	16
Burglary	8
Vehicle Crime	4
Possession Of Weapons	4
Drugs	4
Other Crime	3
All Crime	207

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 Maesycoed. 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 Maesycoed

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Taff (0.93 miles)	182
Rhydyfelin (1.96 miles)	159
Pont Sion Norton (1.75 miles)	124
Maesycoed	104
Pontypridd (0.62 miles)	102
Hopkinstown (0.62 miles)	87
Graig	76
Cilfynydd (2.24 miles)	62
Upper Church Village (2.24 miles)	56
Church Village (2.24 miles)	50

Where are the most violent places near Maesycoed?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Maesycoed	84
Taff	70
Rhydyfelin	52
Pont Sion Norton	42
Graig	41
Pontypridd	34
Cilfynydd	31
Hopkinstown	30
Upper Church Village	26
Church Village	25

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

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 Maesycoed 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 Maesycoed compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Maesycoed and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Maesycoed is ranked #5.

#	Ward	Score
1	Graig	98
2	Rhydfelen Central/Ilan	97
3	Cymmer	97
4	Pontypridd Town	97
5	Rhondda	97
6	Trallwng	97
7	Treforest	96
8	Tyn-y-nant	96
9	Cilfynydd	96
10	Church Village	95
11	Llantwit Fardre	94

Which road in Maesycoed has the highest level of crime?

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