Crime Statistics for Blaencaerau, Maesteg Community, Bridgend, 2025

Is Blaencaerau rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 131 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 Blaencaerau, 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	55
Anti Social Behaviour	28
Shoplifting	8
Criminal Damage Arson	8
Burglary	8
Public Order	6
Drugs	6
Other Crime	4
Vehicle Crime	4
Possession Of Weapons	2
Other Theft	2
All Crime	131

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2025

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Maesteg (1.96 miles)	206
Caerau (0.62 miles)	138
Dyffryn (0.88 miles)	137
Blaencaerau	125
Croeserw (0.62 miles)	123
Spelter (0.88 miles)	77
Brynheulog (0.62 miles)	70
Cymer (1.24 miles)	53
Abercregan (1.39 miles)	33
Duffryn (1.96 miles)	1

Where are the most violent places near Blaencaerau?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Caerau	127
Maesteg	59
Croeserw	58
Blaencaerau	55
Dyffryn	37
Brynheulog	32
Cymer	24
Spelter	21
Abercregan	16
Duffryn	0

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

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 Blaencaerau 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 Blaencaerau compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Caerau	97
2	Maesteg West	97
3	Nant-y-moel	97
4	Maesteg East	97
5	Pontycymmer	97
6	Llangeinor	96
7	Bettws	96
8	Cymmer	96
9	Blaengarw	96
10	Gwynfi	96
11	Llangynwyd	95

Which road in Blaencaerau has the highest level of crime?

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