Crime Statistics for Pant, Merthyr Tydfil, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Pant in September 2024. There were a total of 300 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Shoplifting.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Pant, 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	105
Shoplifting	38
Other Theft	30
Anti Social Behaviour	28
Public Order	26
Criminal Damage Arson	24
Vehicle Crime	17
Other Crime	12
Burglary	12
Theft From The Person	2
Robbery	2
Drugs	2
Possession Of Weapons	2
All Crime	300

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 Pant. 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 Pant

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Pant	243
Twynyrodyn (1.96 miles)	123
Rhymney (Rhymni) (3.16 miles)	103
Heolgerrig (2.24 miles)	93
Dowlais (0.88 miles)	92
Dowlais Top (0.62 miles)	89
Ffos-y-fran (1.86 miles)	64
Gellideg (2.56 miles)	32
Clwydyfagwyr (2.77 miles)	27
Bute Town (2.56 miles)	23

Where are the most violent places near Pant?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Pant	105
Twynyrodyn	42
Dowlais	36
Rhymney (Rhymni)	34
Heolgerrig	34
Dowlais Top	26
Ffos-y-fran	21
Gellideg	13
Clwydyfagwyr	12
Bute Town	8

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

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 Pant 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 Pant compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Pant and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Pant is ranked #6.

#	Ward	Score
1	Twyn Carno	99
2	Pontlottyn	99
3	Gurnos	99
4	Sirhowy	98
5	Park	98
6	Dowlais	98
7	Darren Valley	97
8	Penydarren	97
9	Town	97
10	Vaynor	97
11	Cyfarthfa	97

Which road in Pant has the highest level of crime?

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