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

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Barnardtown in October 2024. There were a total of 1577 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Barnardtown, 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	487
Anti Social Behaviour	216
Public Order	200
Criminal Damage Arson	150
Shoplifting	124
Vehicle Crime	94
Drugs	86
Other Theft	64
Burglary	64
Other Crime	32
Theft From The Person	18
Robbery	18
Possession Of Weapons	16
Bicycle Theft	8
All Crime	1577

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 Barnardtown. 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 Barnardtown

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Barnardtown	1494
St Julians (0.88 miles)	943
Maindee (0.62 miles)	864
Barrack Hill (0.88 miles)	819
Newport	815
Casnewydd (Newport)	815
Crindau (0.62 miles)	694
Pillgwenlly (0.62 miles)	692
Stow Park (0.88 miles)	573
Brynglas (0.88 miles)	464

Where are the most violent places near Barnardtown?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Barnardtown	487
St Julians	343
Maindee	268
Newport	257
Casnewydd (Newport)	257
Barrack Hill	247
Crindau	223
Pillgwenlly	222
Stow Park	164
Brynglas	140

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

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 Barnardtown 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 Barnardtown compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Barnardtown and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Residents in Barnardtown have the highest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Malpas.

#	Ward	Score
1	Stow Hill	99
2	Pillgwenlly	99
3	Bettws	99
4	Victoria	99
5	St. Julians	98
6	Alway	98
7	Gaer	98
8	Shaftesbury	98
9	Allt-yr-yn	98
10	Beechwood	97
11	Malpas	96

Which road in Barnardtown has the highest level of crime?

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