Crime Statistics for Pencaerau, Briton Ferry, Neath Port Talbot, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Pencaerau in October 2024. There were a total of 74 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 Pencaerau, 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	31
Anti Social Behaviour	14
Public Order	11
Criminal Damage Arson	11
Other Theft	4
Shoplifting	1
Burglary	1
Drugs	1
All Crime	74

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 Pencaerau. 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 Pencaerau

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Neath (Castell-Nedd) (1.24 miles)	250
Castell-Nedd (Neath) (1.24 miles)	187
Cimla (1.39 miles)	114
Pencaerau	74
Neath (1.14 miles)	42
Briton Ferry (0.88 miles)	37
Gelli-gaer (1.39 miles)	12
Jersey Marine (1.96 miles)	7
Llandarcy (1.86 miles)	1
Tennant Canal (1.69 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Pencaerau?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Neath (Castell-Nedd)	108
Castell-Nedd (Neath)	66
Cimla	44
Pencaerau	31
Briton Ferry	18
Neath	14
Gelli-gaer	4
Jersey Marine	1
Llandarcy	0
Tennant Canal	0

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

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 Pencaerau 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 Pencaerau compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Pencaerau and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Pencaerau is ranked #4.

#	Ward	Score
1	Briton Ferry West	98
2	Neath East	98
3	Neath North	97
4	Briton Ferry East	97
5	Neath South	97
6	Coedffranc Central	97
7	Baglan	95
8	Dyffryn	95
9	Coedffranc North	95
10	Bryn-coch South	95
11	Cimla	95

Which road in Pencaerau has the highest level of crime?

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