Crime Statistics for Bute Town, Caerphilly, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Bute Town in October 2024. There were a total of 32 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Criminal Damage Arson, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Criminal Damage Arson	11
Violent Crime	9
Anti Social Behaviour	5
Vehicle Crime	2
Other Crime	2
Other Theft	2
Public Order	1
All Crime	32

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 Bute Town. 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 Bute Town

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Ashvale (1.96 miles)	231
Rhymni (Rhymney) (1.39 miles)	220
Dukestown (1.96 miles)	163
Dowlais (2.24 miles)	134
Rhymney (Rhymni) (1.39 miles)	110
Dowlais Top (1.96 miles)	107
Pontlottyn (1.96 miles)	77
Blaen-y-cwm (2.24 miles)	75
Bute Town	32
Tafarnaubach (0.88 miles)	17

Where are the most violent places near Bute Town?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Rhymni (Rhymney)	124
Dowlais	84
Ashvale	78
Dukestown	51
Dowlais Top	33
Rhymney (Rhymni)	31
Blaen-y-cwm	31
Pontlottyn	25
Bute Town	9
Tafarnaubach	7

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

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 Bute Town 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 Bute Town compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Bute Town and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Residents in Bute Town have the highest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Penydarren.

#	Ward	Score
1	Twyn Carno	99
2	Tredegar Central and West	99
3	Pontlottyn	99
4	Gurnos	99
5	Moriah	99
6	Sirhowy	98
7	Dowlais	98
8	Rassau	98
9	Darren Valley	97
10	Georgetown	97
11	Penydarren	97

Which road in Bute Town has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Bute Town with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around Old Brewery Lane.