Crime Statistics for Craig-y-Rhacca, Waterloo, Caerphilly, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Craig-y-Rhacca in October 2024. There were a total of 79 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 Craig-y-Rhacca, 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	43
Criminal Damage Arson	8
Public Order	8
Drugs	6
Vehicle Crime	4
Anti Social Behaviour	4
Other Theft	2
Possession Of Weapons	2
Burglary	2
All Crime	79

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 Craig-y-Rhacca. 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 Craig-y-Rhacca

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Lansbury Park (2.24 miles)	213
Bedwas (1.24 miles)	154
Craig-y-Rhacca	81
Ty’n-y-coedcae (0.62 miles)	30
Cwmfelinfach (1.39 miles)	16
Chatham (1.24 miles)	16
Brynawel (1.24 miles)	11
Rudry (1.86 miles)	3
Lower Machen (1.96 miles)	3
Wattsville (1.39 miles)	2

Where are the most violent places near Craig-y-Rhacca?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Bedwas	78
Lansbury Park	69
Craig-y-Rhacca	43
Ty’n-y-coedcae	14
Chatham	8
Cwmfelinfach	7
Brynawel	6
Rudry	2
Wattsville	2
Lower Machen	0

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Craig-y-Rhacca?

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 Craig-y-Rhacca 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 Craig-y-Rhacca compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Craig-y-Rhacca and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Craig-y-Rhacca is ranked #4.

#	Ward	Score
1	St. James	98
2	Morgan Jones	98
3	Risca West	98
4	Ynysddu	97
5	Pontprennau/Old St. Mellons	97
6	Crosskeys	97
7	St. Martins	97
8	Llanbradach	97
9	Bedwas, Trethomas and Machen	97
10	Graig	96
11	Lisvane	95

Which road in Craig-y-Rhacca has the highest level of crime?

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