Crime Statistics for Pontywaun, Crosskeys, Caerphilly, 2024

Is Pontywaun rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for October 2024. There were a total of 45 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 Pontywaun, 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	17
Public Order	6
Criminal Damage Arson	5
Anti Social Behaviour	5
Burglary	3
Vehicle Crime	3
Bicycle Theft	2
Drugs	2
Other Crime	1
Other Theft	1
All Crime	45

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 Pontywaun. 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 Pontywaun

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Ty-Sign (1.75 miles)	104
Pontymister (1.75 miles)	104
Pontywaun	45
Crosskeys (0.62 miles)	44
Black Vein (0.62 miles)	44
Cwmcarn (0.88 miles)	29
Chapel of Ease (1.86 miles)	27
Ebbw (1.36 miles)	24
Abercarn (1.39 miles)	23
Wattsville (1.39 miles)	2

Where are the most violent places near Pontywaun?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Ty-Sign	34
Pontymister	34
Pontywaun	17
Crosskeys	16
Black Vein	16
Cwmcarn	14
Chapel of Ease	14
Ebbw	10
Abercarn	9
Wattsville	2

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

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 Pontywaun 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 Pontywaun compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Pontywaun and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Pontywaun is ranked #9.

#	Ward	Score
1	Risca West	98
2	Risca East	98
3	Coed Eva	98
4	Newbridge	98
5	Abercarn	97
6	Fairwater	97
7	Ynysddu	97
8	Pontllanfraith	97
9	Crosskeys	97
10	Two Locks	96
11	Graig	96

Which road in Pontywaun has the highest level of crime?

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