Crime Statistics for Ffos-y-fran, Abercanaid, Merthyr Tydfil, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Ffos-y-fran in October 2024. There were a total of 104 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 Ffos-y-fran, 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	25
Shoplifting	22
Other Theft	10
Anti Social Behaviour	10
Criminal Damage Arson	9
Public Order	8
Vehicle Crime	7
Other Crime	4
Burglary	3
Drugs	3
Bicycle Theft	1
Robbery	1
Theft From The Person	1
All Crime	104

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 Ffos-y-fran. 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 Ffos-y-fran

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Pant (1.86 miles)	312
Twynyrodyn (0.62 miles)	183
Dowlais (1.39 miles)	134
Dowlais Top (1.96 miles)	107
Ffos-y-fran	104
Heolgerrig (1.96 miles)	87
Gellideg (2.77 miles)	39
Clwydyfagwyr (2.56 miles)	34
Abercanaid (1.39 miles)	19
Bedlinog (3.1 miles)	7

Where are the most violent places near Ffos-y-fran?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Pant	204
Dowlais	84
Twynyrodyn	45
Heolgerrig	35
Dowlais Top	33
Ffos-y-fran	25
Gellideg	21
Clwydyfagwyr	18
Abercanaid	5
Bedlinog	1

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Ffos-y-fran?

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 Ffos-y-fran 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 Ffos-y-fran compare to surrounding wards?

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

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

Which road in Ffos-y-fran has the highest level of crime?

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