Crime Statistics for Dowlais, Pant, Merthyr Tydfil, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Dowlais in October 2024. There were a total of 268 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Shoplifting.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Dowlais, 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	84
Shoplifting	64
Other Theft	40
Anti Social Behaviour	32
Vehicle Crime	20
Criminal Damage Arson	8
Drugs	8
Public Order	8
Possession Of Weapons	4
All Crime	268

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 Dowlais. 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 Dowlais

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Pant (0.88 miles)	312
Rhymni (Rhymney) (2.48 miles)	220
Twynyrodyn (1.76 miles)	183
Dowlais	134
Rhymney (Rhymni) (2.48 miles)	110
Dowlais Top (0.62 miles)	107
Ffos-y-fran (1.39 miles)	104
Heolgerrig (2.56 miles)	87
Pontlottyn (2.56 miles)	77
Bute Town (2.24 miles)	32

Where are the most violent places near Dowlais?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Pant	204
Rhymni (Rhymney)	124
Dowlais	84
Twynyrodyn	45
Heolgerrig	35
Dowlais Top	33
Rhymney (Rhymni)	31
Ffos-y-fran	25
Pontlottyn	25
Bute Town	9

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

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 Dowlais 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 Dowlais compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Dowlais and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Dowlais is ranked #6.

#	Ward	Score
1	Twyn Carno	99
2	Pontlottyn	99
3	Gurnos	99
4	Moriah	99
5	Park	98
6	Dowlais	98
7	Darren Valley	97
8	Penydarren	97
9	Town	97
10	Plymouth	97
11	Vaynor	97

Which road in Dowlais has the highest level of crime?

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