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

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Ponthir in September 2024. There were a total of 51 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Vehicle Crime.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Ponthir, 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	26
Vehicle Crime	8
Criminal Damage Arson	5
Public Order	4
Anti Social Behaviour	4
Burglary	2
Other Crime	1
Robbery	1
All Crime	51

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 Ponthir. 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 Ponthir

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

Location	Crime Incidents
St Julians (1.86 miles)	667
Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal (1.7 miles)	291
Malpas (1.76 miles)	233
Caerleon (1.39 miles)	186
Croes-y-mwyalch (1.24 miles)	127
Oakfield (1.96 miles)	63
Gatlas (1.24 miles)	61
Ponthir	51
Common Cefn-llwyn (1.39 miles)	3
Llanddewi Fach (1.96 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Ponthir?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
St Julians	205
Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal	139
Malpas	73
Caerleon	72
Croes-y-mwyalch	45
Oakfield	33
Gatlas	30
Ponthir	26
Common Cefn-llwyn	1
Llanddewi Fach	0

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

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 Ponthir 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 Ponthir compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Ponthir and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Resident in Ponthir have the lowest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Bettws.

#	Ward	Score
1	Bettws	99
2	Victoria	99
3	St. Julians	98
4	Shaftesbury	98
5	Llantarnam	98
6	Allt-yr-yn	98
7	Beechwood	97
8	Caerleon	97
9	Malpas	96
10	Llanyrafon West	96
11	Llanyrafon East and Ponthir	95

Which road in Ponthir has the highest level of crime?

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