Crime Statistics for Halfway, Dafen, Carmarthenshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Halfway in October 2024. There were a total of 516 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 Halfway, 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	293
Public Order	49
Shoplifting	39
Criminal Damage Arson	34
Drugs	24
Anti Social Behaviour	22
Burglary	18
Other Theft	15
Other Crime	11
Robbery	4
Vehicle Crime	3
Possession Of Weapons	2
Theft From The Person	2
All Crime	516

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 Halfway. 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 Halfway

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Halfway	504
Capel (0.88 miles)	342
Dafen (0.62 miles)	295
Ty-isaf (1.39 miles)	223
Felinfoel (1.24 miles)	222
Swiss Valley (1.24 miles)	204
Pemberton (0.62 miles)	171
Penceiliogi (0.62 miles)	171
Bryn (1.24 miles)	76
Bynea (1.39 miles)	59

Where are the most violent places near Halfway?

The category of crime that most concerns people is violent crime. We have taken the ten nearest place to Halfway 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 Halfway?

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 Halfway 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 Halfway compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Halfway and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Halfway is ranked #3.

#	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 Halfway has the highest level of crime?

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