Crime Statistics for Blaen-y-cwm, Tredegar, Blaenau Gwent, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Blaen-y-cwm in September 2024. There were a total of 67 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Anti Social Behaviour	20
Violent Crime	20
Criminal Damage Arson	10
Public Order	9
Drugs	3
Burglary	2
Shoplifting	2
Other Theft	1
All Crime	67

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 Blaen-y-cwm. 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 Blaen-y-cwm

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Newchurch (1.96 miles)	199
Dukestown (0.62 miles)	173
Georgetown (1.96 miles)	166
Beaufort (1.86 miles)	156
Ebbw Vale (2.24 miles)	146
Ashvale (0.62 miles)	135
Garnlydan (1.96 miles)	112
Rassau (1.39 miles)	69
Blaen-y-cwm	50
Tafarnaubach (1.39 miles)	12

Where are the most violent places near Blaen-y-cwm?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Newchurch	74
Georgetown	67
Dukestown	60
Beaufort	57
Ebbw Vale	55
Ashvale	54
Garnlydan	43
Rassau	20
Blaen-y-cwm	20
Tafarnaubach	5

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Blaen-y-cwm?

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 Blaen-y-cwm 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 Blaen-y-cwm compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Blaen-y-cwm and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Blaen-y-cwm is ranked #7.

#	Ward	Score
1	Twyn Carno	99
2	Ebbw Vale South	99
3	Tredegar Central and West	99
4	Ebbw Vale North	99
5	Pontlottyn	99
6	Moriah	99
7	Sirhowy	98
8	Rassau	98
9	Beaufort	98
10	Georgetown	97
11	Badminton	97

Which road in Blaen-y-cwm has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Blaen-y-cwm with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around St Luke's Road.