Crime Statistics for Upper Boat, Ton-Teg, Rhondda, Cynon, Taff, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Upper Boat in August 2024. There were a total of 182 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 Upper Boat, 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	67
Anti Social Behaviour	32
Public Order	28
Other Theft	24
Shoplifting	20
Robbery	4
Burglary	4
Other Crime	3
All Crime	182

Map of street level crime incidents in August 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Upper Boat. 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 Upper Boat

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Pontypridd (2.24 miles)	333
Taff (2.5 miles)	201
Hendredenny Park (1.86 miles)	142
Upper Boat	90
Rhydyfelin (0.88 miles)	84
Church Village (1.39 miles)	50
Abertridwr (1.75 miles)	43
Upper Church Village (1.39 miles)	42
Tonteg (0.88 miles)	39
Efail Isaf (2.24 miles)	11

Where are the most violent places near Upper Boat?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Pontypridd	107
Upper Boat	67
Taff	63
Hendredenny Park	43
Rhydyfelin	37
Church Village	25
Upper Church Village	17
Tonteg	17
Abertridwr	13
Efail Isaf	5

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

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 Upper Boat 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 Upper Boat compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Upper Boat and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Upper Boat is ranked #7.

#	Ward	Score
1	Graig	98
2	Rhydfelen Central/Ilan	97
3	Trallwng	97
4	Treforest	96
5	Aber Valley	96
6	Penyrheol	96
7	Hawthorn	96
8	Ton-teg	96
9	Taffs Well	96
10	Church Village	95
11	Llantwit Fardre	94

Which road in Upper Boat has the highest level of crime?

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