Crime Statistics for Lower Machen, Draethen, Caerphilly, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Lower Machen in August 2024. There were a total of 10 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Shoplifting, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Crime Category	Incidents
Shoplifting	5
Anti Social Behaviour	3
Other Crime	1
Violent Crime	1
All Crime	10

Map of street level crime incidents in August 2024

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Ty-Sign (1.75 miles)	108
Pontymister (1.75 miles)	108
Craig-y-Rhacca (1.96 miles)	84
Lower Ochrwyth (1.39 miles)	82
Ty’n-y-coedcae (1.86 miles)	53
Crosskeys (1.86 miles)	37
Black Vein (1.86 miles)	35
Chatham (0.88 miles)	19
Lower Machen	10
Draethen (0.62 miles)	2

Where are the most violent places near Lower Machen?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Ty-Sign	43
Pontymister	43
Craig-y-Rhacca	34
Lower Ochrwyth	32
Crosskeys	30
Black Vein	25
Ty’n-y-coedcae	22
Chatham	5
Lower Machen	1
Draethen	0

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

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 Lower Machen 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 Lower Machen compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	St. James	98
2	Risca West	98
3	Risca East	98
4	Ynysddu	97
5	Pontprennau/Old St. Mellons	97
6	Crosskeys	97
7	St. Martins	97
8	Graig	96
9	Rogerstone	96
10	Llanishen	95
11	Lisvane	95

Which road in Lower Machen has the highest level of crime?

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