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

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Beechwood in October 2024. There were a total of 468 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 Beechwood, 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	152
Anti Social Behaviour	77
Public Order	49
Vehicle Crime	44
Criminal Damage Arson	37
Shoplifting	30
Drugs	29
Other Theft	17
Burglary	13
Other Crime	11
Bicycle Theft	5
Possession Of Weapons	3
Robbery	1
All Crime	468

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 Beechwood. 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 Beechwood

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Barnardtown (1.24 miles)	1494
St Julians (0.88 miles)	943
Maindee (0.62 miles)	864
Casnewydd (Newport) (1.24 miles)	815
Christchurch (0.88 miles)	559
Lawrence Hill (0.62 miles)	547
Beechwood	468
Bishpool (0.62 miles)	399
Alway (0.62 miles)	360
Liswerry (0.88 miles)	246

Where are the most violent places near Beechwood?

The category of crime that most concerns people is violent crime. We have taken the ten nearest place to Beechwood 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
Casnewydd (Newport)	257
Christchurch	225
Lawrence Hill	208
Liswerry	162
Beechwood	152
Bishpool	124
Alway	124

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

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 Beechwood 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 Beechwood compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Beechwood and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Beechwood 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	Shaftesbury	98
9	Allt-yr-yn	98
10	Beechwood	97
11	Caerleon	97

Which road in Beechwood has the highest level of crime?

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