Crime Statistics for Heronston, Ewenny, Bridgend, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Heronston in August 2024. There were a total of 40 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Public Order.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Heronston, 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	11
Public Order	9
Shoplifting	4
Other Crime	4
Vehicle Crime	3
Other Theft	2
Criminal Damage Arson	2
Drugs	2
Anti Social Behaviour	2
Theft From The Person	1
All Crime	40

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 Heronston. 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 Heronston

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Bridgend (Pen-y-bont Ar Ogwr) (1.39 miles)	253
Newcastle (0.88 miles)	184
Byeastwood (1.96 miles)	133
Coity (1.96 miles)	133
Shelf (1.76 miles)	52
Heronston	40
Ogmore (1.84 miles)	23
Waterton (1.24 miles)	13
Ewenny (0.88 miles)	4
Corntown (0.62 miles)	3

Where are the most violent places near Heronston?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Bridgend (Pen-y-bont Ar Ogwr)	86
Newcastle	60
Byeastwood	56
Coity	56
Shelf	18
Heronston	11
Ogmore	8
Waterton	4
Ewenny	0
Corntown	0

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

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 Heronston 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 Heronston compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Morfa	98
2	Coychurch Lower	98
3	Oldcastle	97
4	Newcastle	96
5	Pendre	96
6	Coity	96
7	Brackla	95
8	Llangewydd and Brynhyfryd	95
9	Bryntirion, Laleston and Merthyr Mawr	95
10	Litchard	95
11	Llandow/Ewenny	94

Which road in Heronston has the highest level of crime?

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