Crime Statistics for Pontypridd, Y Graig, Rhondda, Cynon, Taff, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Pontypridd in October 2024. There were a total of 129 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 Pontypridd, 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	45
Anti Social Behaviour	18
Public Order	18
Shoplifting	14
Criminal Damage Arson	12
Burglary	7
Drugs	6
Other Crime	5
Other Theft	3
Possession Of Weapons	1
All Crime	129

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 Pontypridd. 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 Pontypridd

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Pont Sion Norton (1.39 miles)	293
Taff (0.57 miles)	152
Pontypridd	129
Graig (0.62 miles)	125
Cilfynydd (1.96 miles)	115
Hopkinstown (0.88 miles)	107
Rhydyfelin (1.39 miles)	92
Upper Church Village (1.96 miles)	70
Maesycoed (0.62 miles)	65
Church Village (1.96 miles)	49

Where are the most violent places near Pontypridd?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Pont Sion Norton	97
Taff	57
Cilfynydd	49
Rhydyfelin	46
Pontypridd	45
Graig	42
Hopkinstown	39
Upper Church Village	26
Maesycoed	23
Church Village	18

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

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 Pontypridd 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 Pontypridd compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Pontypridd and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Pontypridd is ranked #6.

#	Ward	Score
1	Graig	98
2	Rhydfelen Central/Ilan	97
3	Cymmer	97
4	Pontypridd Town	97
5	Glyncoch	97
6	Rhondda	97
7	Trallwng	97
8	Treforest	96
9	Cilfynydd	96
10	Church Village	95
11	Llantwit Fardre	94

Which road in Pontypridd has the highest level of crime?

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