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

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Bassaleg in October 2024. There were a total of 33 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 Bassaleg, 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	16
Public Order	3
Other Crime	3
Anti Social Behaviour	3
Vehicle Crime	3
Criminal Damage Arson	2
Drugs	2
Possession Of Weapons	1
All Crime	33

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 Bassaleg. 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 Bassaleg

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Stow Park (1.96 miles)	573
Duffryn (1.39 miles)	195
Caerau Park (1.39 miles)	194
Allt-yr-yn (1.75 miles)	151
High Cross (1.39 miles)	127
Maesglas (1.39 miles)	123
Rhiwderin (0.88 miles)	43
Bassaleg	31
Castleton (2.24 miles)	29
Coedkernew (1.86 miles)	11

Where are the most violent places near Bassaleg?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Stow Park	164
Caerau Park	90
Duffryn	80
Allt-yr-yn	66
High Cross	66
Maesglas	42
Rhiwderin	20
Bassaleg	16
Castleton	11
Coedkernew	6

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

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 Bassaleg 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 Bassaleg compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Stow Hill	99
2	Pillgwenlly	99
3	Bettws	99
4	Tredegar Park	99
5	Victoria	99
6	St. Julians	98
7	Gaer	98
8	Allt-yr-yn	98
9	Marshfield	97
10	Graig	96
11	Rogerstone	96

Which road in Bassaleg has the highest level of crime?

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