Crime Statistics for Coed-y-wlad, Welshpool, Powys, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Coed-y-wlad in September 2024. There were a total of 61 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Drugs.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Coed-y-wlad, 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	27
Drugs	12
Public Order	8
Other Theft	5
Other Crime	3
Burglary	2
Anti Social Behaviour	2
Vehicle Crime	1
Shoplifting	1
All Crime	61

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 Coed-y-wlad. 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 Coed-y-wlad

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Coed-y-wlad	59
Buttington (1.39 miles)	36
Rhos (5.86 miles)	3
Bwlch-y-cibau (5.86 miles)	2
Refail (5.89 miles)	1
Berriew (6.12 miles)	1
Belan (3.34 miles)	0
Waun (6.24 miles)	0
Criggion (5.72 miles)	0
Geuffordd (3.17 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Coed-y-wlad?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Coed-y-wlad	27
Buttington	17
Bwlch-y-cibau	2
Rhos	1
Refail	1
Berriew	1
Belan	0
Waun	0
Criggion	0
Geuffordd	0

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Coed-y-wlad?

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 Coed-y-wlad 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 Coed-y-wlad compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Coed-y-wlad and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Coed-y-wlad is ranked #3.

#	Ward	Score
1	Welshpool Castle	99
2	Welshpool Gungrog	97
3	Welshpool Llanerchyddol	96
4	Forden	94
5	Guilsfield	94
6	Montgomery	94
7	Llandrinio	94
8	Trewern	94
9	Loton	26
10	Chirbury and Worthen	17

Which road in Coed-y-wlad has the highest level of crime?

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