Crime Statistics for Bretton, Dodleston, Flintshire, Flintshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Bretton in October 2024. There were a total of 34 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Shoplifting, followed by Other Theft.

Crime Category	Incidents
Shoplifting	11
Other Theft	7
Violent Crime	6
Public Order	4
Other Crime	1
Theft From The Person	1
Robbery	1
Anti Social Behaviour	1
Criminal Damage Arson	1
Vehicle Crime	1
All Crime	34

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 Bretton. 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 Bretton

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Lache (1.96 miles)	60
Broughton (0.62 miles)	42
Saltney (1.39 miles)	35
Bretton	34
Little Mancot (2.63 miles)	33
Mancot Royal (2.63 miles)	33
Lower Kinnerton (0.88 miles)	26
Penarlâg (2.77 miles)	22
Gorstella (0.62 miles)	5
Higher Kinnerton (2.24 miles)	2

Where are the most violent places near Bretton?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Lache	26
Little Mancot	18
Mancot Royal	18
Lower Kinnerton	15
Saltney	14
Broughton	12
Penarlâg	12
Bretton	6
Gorstella	2
Higher Kinnerton	0

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

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 Bretton 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 Bretton compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Bretton and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Bretton is ranked #4.

#	Ward	Score
1	Sealand	99
2	Saltney Mold Junction	98
3	Hope	97
4	Broughton North East	96
5	Saltney Stonebridge	96
6	Penyffordd	95
7	Broughton South	95
8	Hawarden	94
9	Blacon	76
10	Lache	56

Which road in Bretton has the highest level of crime?

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