Crime Statistics for Blacktown, Peterstone Wentlooge, City of Newport, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Blacktown in October 2024. There were a total of 11 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Other Crime.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Blacktown, 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	5
Other Crime	3
Vehicle Crime	1
Anti Social Behaviour	1
Criminal Damage Arson	1
All Crime	11

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 Blacktown. 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 Blacktown

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

Location	Crime Incidents
St Mellons (1.86 miles)	241
Duffryn (3.1 miles)	195
Began (2.77 miles)	169
Maesglas (3.1 miles)	123
Rhymney (2.41 miles)	86
Marshfield (0.88 miles)	62
Castleton (1.39 miles)	29
Newton (2.63 miles)	18
Coedkernew (1.39 miles)	11
Blacktown	11

Where are the most violent places near Blacktown?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
St Mellons	133
Duffryn	80
Began	62
Maesglas	42
Rhymney	25
Marshfield	17
Castleton	11
Coedkernew	6
Blacktown	5
Newton	3

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

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 Blacktown 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 Blacktown compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Tredegar Park	99
2	Rumney	98
3	St. James	98
4	Trowbridge	98
5	Llanrumney	98
6	Gaer	98
7	Marshfield	97
8	Pontprennau/Old St. Mellons	97
9	Pentwyn	96
10	Penylan	96
11	Llanishen	95

Which road in Blacktown has the highest level of crime?

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