Crime Statistics for Old Colwyn, Colwyn Bay, Conwy, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Old Colwyn in August 2024. There were a total of 210 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 Old Colwyn, 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	90
Anti Social Behaviour	49
Criminal Damage Arson	20
Public Order	18
Shoplifting	9
Other Theft	8
Burglary	6
Drugs	5
Vehicle Crime	2
Bicycle Theft	2
Other Crime	1
All Crime	210

Map of street level crime incidents in August 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Old Colwyn. 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 Old Colwyn

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Bae Colwyn (Colwyn Bay)	345
Colwyn Bay	281
Old Colwyn	210
Rhos-on-Sea (2.63 miles)	144
Penmaen Rhos (0.62 miles)	93
Bae-Penrhyn (Penrhyn Bay) (3.1 miles)	50
Mochdre (2.48 miles)	46
Bryn Dulas (2.55 miles)	22
Llanddulas (2.48 miles)	20
Bryn-y-maen (2.24 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Old Colwyn?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Bae Colwyn (Colwyn Bay)	144
Colwyn Bay	142
Old Colwyn	90
Penmaen Rhos	43
Rhos-on-Sea	42
Mochdre	26
Bae-Penrhyn (Penrhyn Bay)	23
Bryn Dulas	15
Llanddulas	7
Bryn-y-maen	0

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

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 Old Colwyn 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 Old Colwyn compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Old Colwyn and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Old Colwyn is ranked #2.

#	Ward	Score
1	Glyn	99
2	Eirias	98
3	Colwyn	98
4	Mochdre	97
5	Pensarn	97
6	Rhiw	97
7	Llanddulas	97
8	Llysfaen	96
9	Llandrillo yn Rhos	96
10	Llansanffraid	95
11	Penrhyn	94

Which road in Old Colwyn has the highest level of crime?

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