Crime Statistics for Caerau Park, Newport, City of Newport, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Caerau Park in August 2024. There were a total of 328 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 Caerau Park, 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	107
Anti Social Behaviour	44
Criminal Damage Arson	41
Vehicle Crime	33
Public Order	24
Other Theft	18
Burglary	14
Robbery	14
Shoplifting	12
Drugs	10
Other Crime	9
Bicycle Theft	2
All Crime	328

Map of street level crime incidents in August 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Caerau Park. 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 Caerau Park

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Stow Park (0.62 miles)	902
Newport (1.39 miles)	828
Casnewydd (Newport) (1.39 miles)	828
Barnardtown (1.39 miles)	791
Pillgwenlly (1.24 miles)	656
Caerau Park	287
Duffryn (1.24 miles)	222
Maesglas (1.24 miles)	174
Allt-yr-yn (0.62 miles)	135
High Cross (0.88 miles)	108

Where are the most violent places near Caerau Park?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Stow Park	343
Newport	283
Casnewydd (Newport)	283
Barnardtown	255
Pillgwenlly	216
Caerau Park	107
Duffryn	80
Maesglas	61
Allt-yr-yn	54
High Cross	24

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

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 Caerau Park 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 Caerau Park compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	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	Shaftesbury	98
9	Allt-yr-yn	98
10	Malpas	96
11	Rogerstone	96

Which road in Caerau Park has the highest level of crime?

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