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

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Craig-y-Rhacca in September 2024. There were a total of 90 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime34
Criminal Damage Arson12
Public Order12
Anti Social Behaviour12
Drugs10
Other Crime4
Burglary2
Shoplifting2
Possession Of Weapons2
All Crime90

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 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.

LocationCrime Incidents
Lansbury Park (2.24 miles)184
Bedwas (1.24 miles)109
Craig-y-Rhacca84
Ty’n-y-coedcae (0.62 miles)53
Brynawel (1.24 miles)23
Cwmfelinfach (1.39 miles)23
Chatham (1.24 miles)19
Wattsville (1.39 miles)18
Lower Machen (1.96 miles)10
Rudry (1.86 miles)2

0%
of residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



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.

LocationViolent Incidents
Lansbury Park89
Bedwas43
Craig-y-Rhacca34
Ty’n-y-coedcae22
Wattsville9
Chatham5
Cwmfelinfach4
Brynawel3
Lower Machen1
Rudry0

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.

#WardScore
1St. James98
2Morgan Jones98
3Risca West98
4Ynysddu97
5Pontprennau/Old St. Mellons97
6Crosskeys97
7St. Martins97
8Llanbradach97
9Bedwas, Trethomas and Machen97
10Graig96
11Lisvane95

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.

Last updated: September 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
Published under the Open Government Licence v3.0