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

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Pontygwaith in August 2024. There were a total of 93 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 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime38
Anti Social Behaviour20
Public Order12
Other Theft6
Shoplifting5
Criminal Damage Arson3
Other Crime2
Vehicle Crime2
Burglary2
Theft From The Person1
Drugs1
Robbery1
All Crime93

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 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.

LocationCrime Incidents
Wattstown (0.88 miles)149
Tonypandy (1.39 miles)100
Pontygwaith93
Tylorstown (0.62 miles)90
Ystrad (1.39 miles)87
Rhondda (1.92 miles)82
Gelli (1.86 miles)57
Ferndale (1.39 miles)54
Blaen Clydach (1.39 miles)33
Clydach Vale (1.96 miles)3

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of residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



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.

LocationViolent Incidents
Wattstown99
Tonypandy41
Pontygwaith38
Tylorstown37
Rhondda31
Ystrad28
Ferndale24
Gelli18
Blaen Clydach10
Clydach Vale1

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.

#WardScore
1Tylorstown98
2Llwyn-y-pia98
3Trealaw98
4Pen-y-graig98
5Ystrad98
6Cwm Clydach97
7Pentre97
8Tonypandy97
9Porth97
10Ynyshir96
11Ferndale96

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.

Last updated: August 2024
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