Crime Statistics for Cymmer, Trebanog, Rhondda, Cynon, Taff, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Cymmer in October 2024. There were a total of 100 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 Cymmer, 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	40
Anti Social Behaviour	17
Public Order	14
Criminal Damage Arson	12
Other Theft	4
Other Crime	3
Shoplifting	3
Vehicle Crime	2
Possession Of Weapons	2
Drugs	2
Burglary	1
All Crime	100

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 Cymmer. 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 Cymmer

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Bryn Golau (1.75 miles)	143
Porth (0.62 miles)	132
Hopkinstown (2.48 miles)	107
Tonypandy (2.24 miles)	104
Cymmer	100
Wattstown (1.96 miles)	90
Tonyrefail (1.39 miles)	81
Ty’n-y-bryn (2.24 miles)	63
Rhiwinder (1.86 miles)	56
Edmondstown (1.24 miles)	46

Where are the most violent places near Cymmer?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Bryn Golau	164
Wattstown	62
Porth	49
Tonyrefail	44
Cymmer	40
Hopkinstown	39
Tonypandy	38
Ty’n-y-bryn	37
Rhiwinder	28
Edmondstown	21

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

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 Cymmer 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 Cymmer compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Cymmer and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Cymmer is ranked #8.

#	Ward	Score
1	Llwyn-y-pia	98
2	Trealaw	98
3	Pen-y-graig	98
4	Cymmer	97
5	Cwm Clydach	97
6	Rhondda	97
7	Tonypandy	97
8	Porth	97
9	Tonyrefail East	96
10	Ynyshir	96
11	Tonyrefail West	96

Which road in Cymmer has the highest level of crime?

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