Crime Statistics for Black Vein, Crosskeys, Caerphilly, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Black Vein in September 2024. There were a total of 57 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 Black Vein, 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 Crime25
Public Order9
Burglary6
Anti Social Behaviour5
Criminal Damage Arson5
Other Theft4
Other Crime2
Theft From The Person1
All Crime57

Map of street level crime incidents in September 2024

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

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Ty-Sign (1.39 miles)171
Pontymister (1.39 miles)107
Lower Ochrwyth (1.76 miles)51
Crosskeys37
Black Vein35
Pontywaun (0.62 miles)33
Brynawel (1.86 miles)23
Cwmcarn (1.39 miles)23
Chatham (1.39 miles)19
Wattsville (1.24 miles)8

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Where are the most violent places near Black Vein?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Ty-Sign84
Pontymister45
Crosskeys30
Black Vein25
Lower Ochrwyth21
Cwmcarn16
Pontywaun14
Chatham5
Brynawel3
Wattsville2

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

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 Black Vein 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 Black Vein compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Black Vein and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Black Vein is ranked #8.

#WardScore
1St. James98
2Risca West98
3Risca East98
4Abercarn97
5Fairwater97
6Ynysddu97
7Pontllanfraith97
8Crosskeys97
9Two Locks96
10Graig96
11Rogerstone96

Which road in Black Vein has the highest level of crime?

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

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