Crime Statistics for Upper Church Village, Church Village, Rhondda, Cynon, Taff, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Upper Church Village in October 2024. There were a total of 75 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 Church Village, 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	26
Anti Social Behaviour	26
Public Order	6
Vehicle Crime	4
Burglary	4
Criminal Damage Arson	3
Other Crime	3
Other Theft	2
Possession Of Weapons	1
All Crime	75

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 Upper Church Village. 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 Church Village

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Pontypridd (1.96 miles)	129
Beddau (1.96 miles)	102
Rhydyfelin (1.39 miles)	92
Upper Church Village	70
Maesycoed (2.24 miles)	65
Tynant (1.39 miles)	61
Church Village	49
Upper Boat (1.39 miles)	46
Tonteg (0.62 miles)	45
Efail Isaf (1.24 miles)	16

Where are the most violent places near Upper Church Village?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Beddau	72
Rhydyfelin	46
Pontypridd	45
Upper Church Village	26
Maesycoed	23
Tynant	23
Upper Boat	19
Tonteg	19
Church Village	18
Efail Isaf	7

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

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 Church Village 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 Church Village compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Graig	98
2	Rhydfelen Central/Ilan	97
3	Rhondda	97
4	Treforest	96
5	Tyn-y-nant	96
6	Hawthorn	96
7	Ton-teg	96
8	Beddau	96
9	Taffs Well	96
10	Church Village	95
11	Llantwit Fardre	94

Which road in Upper Church Village has the highest level of crime?

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