Crime Statistics for Porth-y-felin, Holyhead, Isle of Anglesey, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Porth-y-felin in August 2024. There were a total of 162 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 Porth-y-felin, 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	54
Anti Social Behaviour	26
Criminal Damage Arson	22
Drugs	16
Public Order	12
Shoplifting	12
Burglary	8
Other Theft	6
Other Crime	5
Vehicle Crime	1
All Crime	162

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 Porth-y-felin. 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 Porth-y-felin

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Caergybi (Holyhead) (0.62 miles)	222
Porth-y-felin	154
Morawelon (0.88 miles)	137
Holyhead (Caergybi) (0.62 miles)	125
Pont Hwfa (0.88 miles)	64
Holy Island (1.8 miles)	56
Llaingoch (0.88 miles)	32
Newlands Park (3.61 miles)	20
Isallt Bach (2.56 miles)	10
Twr (1.39 miles)	5

Where are the most violent places near Porth-y-felin?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Caergybi (Holyhead)	104
Porth-y-felin	54
Morawelon	44
Holyhead (Caergybi)	43
Pont Hwfa	42
Newlands Park	28
Holy Island	19
Llaingoch	11
Isallt Bach	5
Twr	2

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Porth-y-felin?

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 Porth-y-felin 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 Porth-y-felin compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Porth-y-felin and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Residents in Porth-y-felin have the highest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Lligwy.

#	Ward	Score
1	Caergybi	98
2	Bontnewydd	97
3	Ynys Gybi	97
4	Canolbarth Môn	97
5	Bro Aberffraw	96
6	Twrcelyn	96
7	Llifôn	96
8	Bro Rhosyr	95
9	Y Felinheli	95
10	Talybolion	95
11	Lligwy	95

Which road in Porth-y-felin has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Porth-y-felin with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around Garreg Domas.