Crime Statistics for Garth Owen, Milford, Powys, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Garth Owen in October 2024. There were a total of 187 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 Garth Owen, 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	77
Anti Social Behaviour	26
Criminal Damage Arson	22
Public Order	20
Other Theft	12
Other Crime	8
Drugs	8
Shoplifting	6
Theft From The Person	2
Vehicle Crime	2
Burglary	2
Possession Of Weapons	2
All Crime	187

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 Garth Owen. 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 Garth Owen

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Garth Owen	180
Maesyrhandir (0.62 miles)	165
Milford (0.62 miles)	88
Mochare Brook (0.87 miles)	71
Rhyd-lydan (3.62 miles)	7
Kerry (2.55 miles)	6
Brynllywarch (3.16 miles)	3
Little London (3.77 miles)	2
Bettws Cedewain (3.93 miles)	1
Aberbechan (2.63 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Garth Owen?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Garth Owen	77
Maesyrhandir	44
Milford	38
Mochare Brook	29
Kerry	2
Brynllywarch	1
Bettws Cedewain	1
Rhyd-lydan	0
Little London	0
Aberbechan	0

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

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 Garth Owen 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 Garth Owen compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Newtown East	99
2	Newtown South	99
3	Newtown Central	98
4	Newtown Llanllwchaiarn West	97
5	Newtown Llanllwchaiarn North	95
6	Kerry	95
7	Dolforwyn	95
8	Llandinam	94
9	Berriew	94
10	Caersws	94
11	Rhiwcynon	94

Which road in Garth Owen has the highest level of crime?

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