Crime Statistics for Bryn, Dafen, Carmarthenshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Bryn in October 2024. There were a total of 76 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 Bryn, 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	7
Public Order	6
Other Theft	6
Burglary	4
Anti Social Behaviour	3
Shoplifting	3
Drugs	3
Vehicle Crime	1
All Crime	76

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 Bryn. 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 Bryn

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Halfway (1.24 miles)	504
Dafen (1.39 miles)	295
Felinfoel (1.75 miles)	222
Swiss Valley (1.75 miles)	204
Pemberton (0.62 miles)	171
Penceiliogi (0.62 miles)	171
Bryn	76
Bynea (0.62 miles)	59
Allt (1.39 miles)	21
Yspitty (1.39 miles)	13

Where are the most violent places near Bryn?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Halfway	293
Felinfoel	243
Dafen	135
Swiss Valley	116
Pemberton	84
Penceiliogi	84
Bryn	43
Bynea	34
Allt	12
Yspitty	3

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

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 Bryn 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 Bryn compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Tyisha	99
2	Bigyn	98
3	Glanymor	98
4	Lliedi	98
5	Dafen	98
6	Llwynhendy	98
7	Felinfoel	97
8	Lower Loughor	97
9	Bynea	96
10	Llangennech	95
11	Swiss Valley	94

Which road in Bryn has the highest level of crime?

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