Crime Statistics for Waun-Lwyd, Argoed, Blaenau Gwent, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Waun-Lwyd in October 2024. There were a total of 17 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 Waun-Lwyd, 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	9
Anti Social Behaviour	4
Burglary	2
Criminal Damage Arson	1
Other Theft	1
All Crime	17

Map of street level crime incidents in October 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Waun-Lwyd. 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 Waun-Lwyd

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Blaina (1.75 miles)	60
Ty Llwyn (1.24 miles)	48
Briery Hill (1.39 miles)	43
Cwm (0.88 miles)	28
Waun-Lwyd	17
Garden Village (0.88 miles)	14
Pochin Houses (1.39 miles)	10
Manmoel (1.86 miles)	8
Llan-dafal (1.96 miles)	1
Bedwellty Pits (1.24 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Waun-Lwyd?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Ty Llwyn	39
Briery Hill	32
Cwm	22
Blaina	21
Waun-Lwyd	9
Garden Village	8
Pochin Houses	8
Manmoel	4
Llan-dafal	0
Bedwellty Pits	0

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Waun-Lwyd?

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 Waun-Lwyd 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 Waun-Lwyd compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	New Tredegar	99
2	Ebbw Vale South	99
3	Nantyglo	99
4	Tredegar Central and West	99
5	Ebbw Vale North	99
6	Abertillery	99
7	Moriah	99
8	Blaina	98
9	Cwm	98
10	Georgetown	97
11	Badminton	97

Which road in Waun-Lwyd has the highest level of crime?

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