Crime Statistics for Beaufort, Glyncoed, Blaenau Gwent, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Beaufort in September 2024. There were a total of 156 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 Beaufort, 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 Crime57
Anti Social Behaviour21
Public Order20
Criminal Damage Arson19
Drugs8
Other Theft6
Other Crime6
Vehicle Crime5
Shoplifting5
Possession Of Weapons5
Burglary3
Bicycle Theft1
All Crime156

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 Beaufort. 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 Beaufort

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Newchurch (0.62 miles)199
Beaufort156
Ebbw Vale (1.24 miles)146
Ashvale (1.96 miles)135
Bryn-Mawr (1.24 miles)130
Garnlydan (0.62 miles)112
Clydach Terrace (1.75 miles)97
Briery Hill (1.86 miles)76
Rassau (0.88 miles)69
Blaen-y-cwm (1.86 miles)50

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Where are the most violent places near Beaufort?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Newchurch74
Beaufort57
Ebbw Vale55
Ashvale54
Bryn-Mawr54
Garnlydan43
Clydach Terrace41
Briery Hill30
Rassau20
Blaen-y-cwm20

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

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 Beaufort 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 Beaufort compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Beaufort and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Resident in Beaufort have the lowest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Ebbw Vale South.

#WardScore
1Ebbw Vale South99
2Nantyglo99
3Tredegar Central and West99
4Ebbw Vale North99
5Brynmawr99
6Sirhowy98
7Cwm98
8Rassau98
9Beaufort98
10Georgetown97
11Badminton97

Which road in Beaufort has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: September 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
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