Crime Statistics for Laleston, Broadlands, Bridgend, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Laleston in August 2024. There were a total of 12 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Criminal Damage Arson.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Laleston, 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 Crime7
Criminal Damage Arson2
Public Order1
Other Theft1
Anti Social Behaviour1
All Crime12

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 Laleston. 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 Laleston

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Pendre (2.24 miles)227
Litchard (2.24 miles)227
Bridgend (Pen-y-bont Ar Ogwr) (1.96 miles)189
Newcastle (1.86 miles)184
Bryntirion (0.88 miles)54
Ty’n-y-garn (2.24 miles)47
Heronston (2.55 miles)40
Tythegston (1.39 miles)13
Laleston12
Ewenny (2.24 miles)4

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of residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Laleston?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Bridgend (Pen-y-bont Ar Ogwr)152
Pendre84
Litchard84
Newcastle60
Ty’n-y-garn26
Bryntirion22
Heronston11
Tythegston7
Laleston7
Ewenny0

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

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 Laleston 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 Laleston compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Laleston and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Laleston is ranked #5.

#WardScore
1Morfa98
2Oldcastle97
3Newcastle96
4Cornelly96
5Newton95
6Cefn Glas95
7Cefn Cribwr95
8Llangewydd and Brynhyfryd95
9Bryntirion, Laleston and Merthyr Mawr95
10Llandow/Ewenny94
11St. Bride's Major94

Which road in Laleston has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: August 2024
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