Crime Statistics for Waterston, Pembrokeshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Waterston in September 2024. There was only 4 incident. See where that was on the map below.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Waterston, 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	4
All Crime	4

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 Waterston. 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 Waterston

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Aberdaughleddau (Milford Haven) (1.74 miles)	133
Pembroke Dock (Doc Penfro) (2.23 miles)	84
Pill (1.24 miles)	74
Milford Haven (1.86 miles)	71
Hakin (2.48 miles)	46
Mascle Bridge (1.24 miles)	29
Little Honeyborough (1.39 miles)	23
Pennar (2.24 miles)	10
Waterston	4
Pennar Park (1.96 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Waterston?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Aberdaughleddau (Milford Haven)	63
Pembroke Dock (Doc Penfro)	41
Pill	37
Milford Haven	32
Mascle Bridge	17
Hakin	13
Little Honeyborough	12
Pennar	7
Waterston	4
Pennar Park	0

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

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 Waterston 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 Waterston compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Milford: Central	99
2	Pembroke Dock: Central	99
3	Milford: East	99
4	Milford: West	98
5	Pembroke Dock: Market	98
6	Milford: Hubberston	97
7	Pembroke Dock: Pennar	97
8	Milford: North	96
9	Milford: Hakin	96
10	Neyland: East	96
11	Neyland: West	96

Which road in Waterston has the highest level of crime?

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