Crime Statistics for Pontywaun, Crosskeys, Caerphilly, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Pontywaun in August 2024. There were a total of 43 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 Pontywaun, 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 Crime20
Anti Social Behaviour11
Criminal Damage Arson4
Public Order3
Vehicle Crime3
Other Theft2
All Crime43

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 Pontywaun. 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 Pontywaun

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Ty-Sign (1.75 miles)108
Pontymister (1.75 miles)108
Pontywaun43
Crosskeys (0.62 miles)37
Black Vein (0.62 miles)35
Chapel of Ease (1.86 miles)23
Cwmcarn (0.88 miles)23
Ebbw (1.36 miles)18
Wattsville (1.39 miles)18
Abercarn (1.39 miles)17

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Where are the most violent places near Pontywaun?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Ty-Sign43
Pontymister43
Crosskeys30
Black Vein25
Pontywaun20
Cwmcarn16
Abercarn11
Wattsville9
Chapel of Ease8
Ebbw8

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

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 Pontywaun 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 Pontywaun compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Risca West98
2Risca East98
3Coed Eva98
4Newbridge98
5Abercarn97
6Fairwater97
7Ynysddu97
8Pontllanfraith97
9Crosskeys97
10Two Locks96
11Graig96

Which road in Pontywaun has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Pontywaun 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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