Crime Statistics for Newcastle, Bridgend, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Newcastle in October 2024. There were a total of 159 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 Newcastle, 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	54
Shoplifting	22
Anti Social Behaviour	18
Public Order	16
Criminal Damage Arson	13
Other Theft	10
Vehicle Crime	7
Other Crime	6
Drugs	6
Burglary	3
Possession Of Weapons	2
Theft From The Person	1
Bicycle Theft	1
All Crime	159

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 Newcastle. 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 Newcastle

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Bridgend (Pen-y-bont Ar Ogwr) (0.62 miles)	419
Pendre (1.24 miles)	330
Litchard (1.24 miles)	229
Newcastle	159
Byeastwood (1.75 miles)	148
Coity (1.75 miles)	148
Bryntirion (1.39 miles)	94
Heronston (0.88 miles)	29
Corntown (1.39 miles)	3
Ewenny (1.24 miles)	2

Where are the most violent places near Newcastle?

The category of crime that most concerns people is violent crime. We have taken the ten nearest place to Newcastle 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)	157
Pendre	146
Bryntirion	88
Litchard	84
Byeastwood	59
Coity	59
Newcastle	54
Heronston	22
Corntown	3
Ewenny	2

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

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 Newcastle 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 Newcastle compare to surrounding wards?

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

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

Which road in Newcastle has the highest level of crime?

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