Crime Statistics for Craig Berthlwyd, Edwardsville, Merthyr Tydfil, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Craig Berthlwyd in September 2024. There were a total of 47 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 Craig Berthlwyd, 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	19
Anti Social Behaviour	12
Criminal Damage Arson	7
Public Order	4
Vehicle Crime	2
Drugs	1
Other Theft	1
Shoplifting	1
All Crime	47

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 Craig Berthlwyd. 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 Craig Berthlwyd

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Gelligaer (2.48 miles)	72
Edwardsville (0.62 miles)	62
Llancaiach (1.24 miles)	49
Craig Berthlwyd	47
Taff Merthyr Garden Village (0.88 miles)	45
Abercynon (0.88 miles)	33
Carnetown (1.75 miles)	33
Nelson (1.39 miles)	31
Tyntetown (1.86 miles)	24
Tai’r-heol (1.39 miles)	2

Where are the most violent places near Craig Berthlwyd?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Gelligaer	35
Edwardsville	35
Carnetown	22
Craig Berthlwyd	19
Llancaiach	18
Taff Merthyr Garden Village	17
Tyntetown	16
Abercynon	14
Nelson	10
Tai’r-heol	4

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

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 Craig Berthlwyd 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 Craig Berthlwyd compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Craig Berthlwyd and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Craig Berthlwyd is ranked #9.

#	Ward	Score
1	Ystrad Mynach	98
2	St. Cattwg	97
3	Glyncoch	97
4	Abercynon	97
5	Merthyr Vale	97
6	Nelson	97
7	Cilfynydd	96
8	Bedlinog	96
9	Treharris	96
10	Penrhiwceiber	96
11	Ynysybwl	96

Which road in Craig Berthlwyd has the highest level of crime?

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