Crime Statistics for Cymdda, Pen y Cae, Bridgend, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Cymdda in August 2024. There were a total of 139 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Shoplifting.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Cymdda, 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 Crime60
Shoplifting27
Anti Social Behaviour17
Public Order15
Criminal Damage Arson8
Other Theft6
Vehicle Crime3
Robbery2
Theft From The Person1
All Crime139

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 Cymdda. 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 Cymdda

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Pendre (1.24 miles)227
Bryncoch (0.62 miles)120
Abergarw (0.88 miles)104
Bryncethin (0.88 miles)104
Brynmenyn (0.62 miles)88
Cymdda80
Aberkenfig (0.62 miles)47
Ty’n-y-garn (0.88 miles)47
Tondu (0.88 miles)38
Fountain (1.24 miles)11

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Where are the most violent places near Cymdda?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Pendre84
Bryncoch72
Cymdda60
Abergarw50
Bryncethin50
Brynmenyn37
Ty’n-y-garn26
Aberkenfig20
Tondu20
Fountain10

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

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 Cymdda 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 Cymdda compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Cymdda and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Cymdda is ranked #2.

#WardScore
1Morfa98
2Sarn97
3Bryncethin97
4Ynysawdre96
5Pendre96
6Bryncoch96
7Coity96
8Cefn Glas95
9Llangewydd and Brynhyfryd95
10Pen-y-fai95
11Litchard95

Which road in Cymdda has the highest level of crime?

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

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