Crime Statistics for Dafen, Felinfoel, Carmarthenshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Dafen in October 2024. There were a total of 295 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 Dafen, 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	135
Criminal Damage Arson	33
Public Order	29
Shoplifting	29
Anti Social Behaviour	21
Other Theft	17
Drugs	15
Burglary	9
Other Crime	3
Possession Of Weapons	2
Vehicle Crime	2
All Crime	295

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 Dafen. 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 Dafen

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Halfway (0.62 miles)	504
Capel (0.62 miles)	342
Dafen	295
Ty-isaf (1.75 miles)	223
Felinfoel (0.62 miles)	222
Swiss Valley (0.62 miles)	204
Pemberton (0.88 miles)	171
Penceiliogi (0.88 miles)	171
Bryn (1.39 miles)	76
Bynea (1.75 miles)	59

Where are the most violent places near Dafen?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Halfway	293
Felinfoel	243
Capel	165
Dafen	135
Swiss Valley	116
Ty-isaf	113
Pemberton	84
Penceiliogi	84
Bryn	43
Bynea	34

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

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 Dafen 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 Dafen compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Dafen and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Dafen is ranked #5.

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

Which road in Dafen has the highest level of crime?

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