Crime Statistics for Pontardawe, Neath Port Talbot, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Pontardawe in September 2024. There were a total of 51 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 Pontardawe, 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	23
Anti Social Behaviour	13
Public Order	6
Other Theft	3
Drugs	2
Criminal Damage Arson	2
Vehicle Crime	1
Other Crime	1
All Crime	51

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 Pontardawe. 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 Pontardawe

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Gellinud (0.62 miles)	76
Pontardawe	51
Craig Llangiwg (0.62 miles)	48
Craig-y-Duke (1.75 miles)	38
Rhos (0.88 miles)	33
Gellygron (0.62 miles)	31
Alltwen (0.62 miles)	30
Rhyd-y-fro (0.88 miles)	27
Cilybebyll (1.24 miles)	22
Cilmaengwyn (1.75 miles)	8

Where are the most violent places near Pontardawe?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Gellinud	41
Gellygron	27
Pontardawe	23
Craig Llangiwg	23
Rhos	19
Craig-y-Duke	15
Alltwen	15
Rhyd-y-fro	13
Cilybebyll	9
Cilmaengwyn	6

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

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 Pontardawe 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 Pontardawe compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Pontardawe and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Pontardawe is ranked #3.

#	Ward	Score
1	Pontardawe	97
2	Clydach	96
3	Trebanos	96
4	Dyffryn	95
5	Godre'r graig	95
6	Allt-wen	95
7	Coedffranc North	95
8	Bryn-coch South	95
9	Rhos	94
10	Cadoxton	94
11	Bryn-coch North	94

Which road in Pontardawe has the highest level of crime?

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