Crime Statistics for Rhymney, Michaelstone-y-Vedw, Cardiff, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Rhymney in September 2024. There were a total of 57 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Anti Social Behaviour	14
Violent Crime	13
Public Order	8
Shoplifting	7
Criminal Damage Arson	4
Other Crime	3
Other Theft	2
Drugs	2
Vehicle Crime	2
Bicycle Theft	1
Burglary	1
All Crime	57

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 Rhymney. 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 Rhymney

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Rumney (2.62 miles)	333
St Mellons (1.21 miles)	244
Marshfield (1.59 miles)	80
Began (0.38 miles)	66
Rhymney	57
Lisvane (2.85 miles)	57
Castleton (1.49 miles)	17
Blacktown (2.41 miles)	10
Coedkernew (2.73 miles)	3
Draethen (2.57 miles)	2

Where are the most violent places near Rhymney?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Rumney	128
St Mellons	87
Lisvane	34
Began	20
Marshfield	16
Rhymney	13
Castleton	4
Blacktown	4
Coedkernew	1
Draethen	0

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

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 Rhymney 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 Rhymney compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Rhymney and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Rhymney is ranked #6.

#	Ward	Score
1	Rumney	98
2	St. James	98
3	Trowbridge	98
4	Llanrumney	98
5	Marshfield	97
6	Pontprennau/Old St. Mellons	97
7	Pentwyn	96
8	Graig	96
9	Llanishen	95
10	Cyncoed	95
11	Lisvane	95

Which road in Rhymney has the highest level of crime?

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