Crime Statistics for Gelli, Ton Pentre, Rhondda, Cynon, Taff, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Gelli in October 2024. There were a total of 59 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Criminal Damage Arson.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Gelli, 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	16
Criminal Damage Arson	14
Other Crime	8
Public Order	6
Anti Social Behaviour	6
Possession Of Weapons	2
Drugs	2
Other Theft	2
Shoplifting	2
Theft From The Person	1
All Crime	59

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 Gelli. 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 Gelli

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Tonypandy (1.75 miles)	104
Pontygwaith (1.86 miles)	87
Ystrad (0.88 miles)	67
Rhondda (0.69 miles)	61
Blaen Clydach (0.88 miles)	60
Ton Pentre (0.88 miles)	58
Ferndale (1.75 miles)	54
Gelli	54
Cwmparc (1.75 miles)	37
Clydach Vale (0.62 miles)	11

Where are the most violent places near Gelli?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Pontygwaith	41
Tonypandy	38
Ystrad	27
Ton Pentre	25
Rhondda	22
Blaen Clydach	22
Ferndale	22
Gelli	16
Cwmparc	16
Clydach Vale	3

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

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 Gelli 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 Gelli compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Tylorstown	98
2	Llwyn-y-pia	98
3	Maerdy	98
4	Trealaw	98
5	Pen-y-graig	98
6	Ystrad	98
7	Cwm Clydach	97
8	Pentre	97
9	Nant-y-moel	97
10	Tonypandy	97
11	Treorchy	97

Which road in Gelli has the highest level of crime?

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