Crime Statistics for Milton, Llanwern, City of Newport, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Milton in September 2024. There were a total of 285 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 Milton, 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	105
Anti Social Behaviour	42
Public Order	35
Criminal Damage Arson	28
Other Crime	17
Drugs	14
Burglary	12
Other Theft	10
Vehicle Crime	8
Shoplifting	8
Robbery	4
Possession Of Weapons	2
All Crime	285

Map of street level crime incidents in September 2024

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Bishpool (1.24 miles)	764
Liswerry (1.39 miles)	534
Christchurch (1.39 miles)	522
Lawrence Hill (1.24 miles)	382
Alway (1.24 miles)	382
Milton	258
Coldra (0.88 miles)	196
Cat’s Ash (1.39 miles)	32
Langstone (1.39 miles)	25
Underwood (1.24 miles)	5

Where are the most violent places near Milton?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Bishpool	460
Christchurch	192
Liswerry	153
Lawrence Hill	115
Alway	115
Milton	105
Coldra	78
Cat’s Ash	17
Langstone	12
Underwood	3

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

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 Milton 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 Milton compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Milton and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Milton is ranked #5.

#	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	Llanwern	98
9	Beechwood	97
10	Caerleon	97
11	Langstone	96

Which road in Milton has the highest level of crime?

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