Crime Statistics for Alway, Newport, City of Newport, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Alway in October 2024. There were a total of 360 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Shoplifting.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Alway, 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	124
Shoplifting	43
Anti Social Behaviour	36
Public Order	36
Criminal Damage Arson	32
Vehicle Crime	29
Other Theft	20
Drugs	15
Burglary	11
Other Crime	9
Bicycle Theft	2
Robbery	1
Possession Of Weapons	1
Theft From The Person	1
All Crime	360

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 Alway. 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 Alway

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

Location	Crime Incidents
St Julians (1.39 miles)	943
Maindee (1.24 miles)	864
Christchurch (0.62 miles)	559
Lawrence Hill	547
Beechwood (0.62 miles)	468
Bishpool	399
Alway	360
Liswerry (0.62 miles)	246
Coldra (0.88 miles)	216
Milton (1.24 miles)	180

Where are the most violent places near Alway?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
St Julians	343
Maindee	268
Christchurch	225
Lawrence Hill	208
Liswerry	162
Beechwood	152
Bishpool	124
Alway	124
Coldra	89
Milton	82

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

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 Alway 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 Alway compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Alway and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Alway is ranked #7.

#	Ward	Score
1	Stow Hill	99
2	Pillgwenlly	99
3	Liswerry	99
4	Victoria	99
5	Ringland	99
6	St. Julians	98
7	Alway	98
8	Allt-yr-yn	98
9	Beechwood	97
10	Caerleon	97
11	Langstone	96

Which road in Alway has the highest level of crime?

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