Crime Statistics for Neath Canal, Resolven, Neath Port Talbot, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Neath Canal in August 2024. There were a total of 15 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Anti Social Behaviour, followed by Criminal Damage Arson.

Crime Category	Incidents
Anti Social Behaviour	5
Criminal Damage Arson	4
Violent Crime	3
Other Theft	1
Public Order	1
Vehicle Crime	1
All Crime	15

Map of street level crime incidents in August 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Neath Canal. 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 Neath Canal

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Morfa Glas (3.19 miles)	33
Tynewydd (3.83 miles)	22
Cilfrew (4.08 miles)	18
Resolven (0.79 miles)	16
Neath Canal	15
Crynant (2.51 miles)	6
Blaengwrach (2.32 miles)	5
Abergarwed (1.3 miles)	2
Cwmgwrach (2.04 miles)	2
Clyne (2.54 miles)	1

Where are the most violent places near Neath Canal?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Tynewydd	12
Cilfrew	12
Morfa Glas	10
Crynant	6
Resolven	4
Neath Canal	3
Blaengwrach	3
Abergarwed	2
Cwmgwrach	2
Clyne	1

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

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 Neath Canal 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 Neath Canal compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Cymmer	96
2	Blaengwrach	96
3	Glyncorrwg	96
4	Glynneath	96
5	Seven Sisters	96
6	Onllwyn	96
7	Gwynfi	96
8	Crynant	95
9	Resolven	95
10	Aberdulais	95
11	Tonna	94

Which road in Neath Canal has the highest level of crime?

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