Crime Statistics for Aberdulais, Neath Port Talbot, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Aberdulais in October 2024. There were a total of 39 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 Aberdulais, 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	20
Anti Social Behaviour	8
Public Order	4
Vehicle Crime	2
Drugs	2
Criminal Damage Arson	2
Other Theft	1
All Crime	39

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 Aberdulais. 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 Aberdulais

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Cadoxton-Juxta-Neath (1.39 miles)	264
Castell-Nedd (Neath) (2.24 miles)	187
Rhydding (1.39 miles)	165
Cimla (1.96 miles)	114
Bryn coch (1.86 miles)	49
Aberdulais	37
Cilfrew (0.62 miles)	24
Tonna	23
Fforest Goch (2.24 miles)	5
Clyne (1.96 miles)	1

Where are the most violent places near Aberdulais?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Cadoxton-Juxta-Neath	110
Castell-Nedd (Neath)	66
Rhydding	58
Cimla	44
Aberdulais	20
Bryn coch	18
Cilfrew	13
Tonna	11
Fforest Goch	2
Clyne	0

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

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 Aberdulais 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 Aberdulais compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Neath East	98
2	Neath North	97
3	Neath South	97
4	Dyffryn	95
5	Aberdulais	95
6	Bryn-coch South	95
7	Cimla	95
8	Pelenna	95
9	Tonna	94
10	Cadoxton	94
11	Bryn-coch North	94

Which road in Aberdulais has the highest level of crime?

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