Crime Statistics for Rhydyfelin, Hawthorn, Rhondda, Cynon, Taff, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Rhydyfelin in September 2024. There were a total of 169 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Public Order.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Rhydyfelin, 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	52
Public Order	30
Anti Social Behaviour	28
Burglary	21
Shoplifting	14
Other Theft	12
Other Crime	4
Criminal Damage Arson	4
Possession Of Weapons	2
Vehicle Crime	2
All Crime	169

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 Rhydyfelin. 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 Rhydyfelin

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Taff (1.62 miles)	182
Rhydyfelin	159
Maesycoed (1.96 miles)	104
Pontypridd (1.39 miles)	102
Graig (1.96 miles)	76
Upper Church Village (1.39 miles)	56
Church Village (1.39 miles)	50
Upper Boat (0.88 miles)	44
Abertridwr (1.96 miles)	43
Tonteg (1.24 miles)	33

Where are the most violent places near Rhydyfelin?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Maesycoed	84
Taff	70
Rhydyfelin	52
Graig	41
Pontypridd	34
Upper Church Village	26
Church Village	25
Tonteg	15
Upper Boat	13
Abertridwr	13

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

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 Rhydyfelin 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 Rhydyfelin compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Rhydyfelin and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Rhydyfelin is ranked #2.

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

Which road in Rhydyfelin has the highest level of crime?

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