Crime Statistics for Pontygwaith, Llwynypia, Rhondda, Cynon, Taff, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Pontygwaith in September 2024. There were a total of 78 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 Pontygwaith, 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	36
Public Order	12
Criminal Damage Arson	11
Other Theft	5
Anti Social Behaviour	5
Shoplifting	4
Drugs	2
Vehicle Crime	2
Theft From The Person	1
All Crime	78

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 Pontygwaith. 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 Pontygwaith

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Tonypandy (1.39 miles)	148
Ystrad (1.39 miles)	104
Wattstown (0.88 miles)	93
Tylorstown (0.62 miles)	77
Pontygwaith	73
Ferndale (1.39 miles)	55
Rhondda (1.92 miles)	51
Blaen Clydach (1.39 miles)	33
Gelli (1.86 miles)	25
Clydach Vale (1.96 miles)	3

Where are the most violent places near Pontygwaith?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Tonypandy	75
Wattstown	56
Tylorstown	46
Ystrad	45
Pontygwaith	36
Ferndale	26
Rhondda	23
Blaen Clydach	10
Gelli	6
Clydach Vale	1

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

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 Pontygwaith 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 Pontygwaith compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Tylorstown	98
2	Llwyn-y-pia	98
3	Trealaw	98
4	Pen-y-graig	98
5	Ystrad	98
6	Cwm Clydach	97
7	Pentre	97
8	Tonypandy	97
9	Porth	97
10	Ynyshir	96
11	Ferndale	96

Which road in Pontygwaith has the highest level of crime?

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