Crime Statistics for Pontyates, Carmarthenshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Pontyates in September 2024. There were a total of 19 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Drugs.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Pontyates, 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	9
Drugs	4
Other Crime	2
Public Order	2
Burglary	2
All Crime	19

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 Pontyates. 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 Pontyates

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Carway (1.24 miles)	24
Pontyates	22
Mansant (1.39 miles)	19
Waun y Clyn (2.56 miles)	15
Pont-Henri (0.88 miles)	15
Pontyberem (3.1 miles)	10
Bancffosfelen (2.24 miles)	6
Heol-ddu (3.1 miles)	3
Horeb (2.63 miles)	2
Cynheidre (1.96 miles)	2

Where are the most violent places near Pontyates?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Carway	12
Mansant	12
Pont-Henri	11
Pontyates	9
Waun y Clyn	7
Bancffosfelen	6
Pontyberem	5
Heol-ddu	2
Horeb	2
Cynheidre	2

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

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 Pontyates 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 Pontyates compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Pontyates and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Pontyates is ranked #9.

#	Ward	Score
1	Burry Port	97
2	Kidwelly	96
3	Hengoed	96
4	Pembrey	96
5	Trimsaran	96
6	Llannon	96
7	Glyn	96
8	Pontyberem	95
9	Llangyndeyrn	95
10	St. Ishmael	94
11	Swiss Valley	94

Which road in Pontyates has the highest level of crime?

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