Crime Statistics for Fforest Goch, Bryncoch, Neath Port Talbot, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Fforest Goch in September 2024. There were a total of 3 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Public Order, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime CategoryIncidents
Public Order1
Violent Crime1
Shoplifting1
All Crime3

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 Fforest Goch. 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 Fforest Goch

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Cadoxton-Juxta-Neath (1.96 miles)181
Rhydding (1.96 miles)181
Neath Abbey (1.96 miles)80
Gellinud (1.96 miles)76
Bryn coch (1.24 miles)50
Rhos (1.39 miles)33
Alltwen (1.75 miles)30
Cilybebyll (1.86 miles)22
Cilfrew (1.96 miles)18
Fforest Goch3

0%
of residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Fforest Goch?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Cadoxton-Juxta-Neath75
Rhydding75
Gellinud41
Neath Abbey31
Rhos19
Bryn coch18
Alltwen15
Cilfrew12
Cilybebyll9
Fforest Goch1

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

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 Fforest Goch 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 Fforest Goch compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Fforest Goch and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Resident in Fforest Goch have the lowest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Neath North.

#WardScore
1Neath North97
2Trebanos96
3Dyffryn95
4Allt-wen95
5Aberdulais95
6Coedffranc North95
7Bryn-coch South95
8Rhos94
9Tonna94
10Cadoxton94
11Bryn-coch North94

Which road in Fforest Goch has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: September 2024
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