Crime Statistics for Barry, The Vale Of Glamorgan, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Barry in September 2024. There were a total of 630 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Shoplifting.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Barry, 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	219
Shoplifting	162
Public Order	74
Anti Social Behaviour	72
Criminal Damage Arson	40
Other Theft	28
Burglary	12
Drugs	8
Vehicle Crime	8
Other Crime	3
Bicycle Theft	2
Theft From The Person	2
All Crime	630

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 Barry. 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 Barry

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Barry	629
Colcot (0.62 miles)	528
Barri	505
Palmerstown (1.39 miles)	499
Cadoxton (1.32 miles)	418
Barry Dock	322
Barry Island (1.24 miles)	55
Burdonshill (1.86 miles)	34
Porthkerry (2.24 miles)	14
St Lythans (2.56 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Barry?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Barri	223
Barry	219
Colcot	214
Palmerstown	183
Cadoxton	179
Barry Dock	116
Barry Island	22
Burdonshill	19
Porthkerry	6
St Lythans	0

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

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 Barry 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 Barry compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Court	99
2	Buttrills	98
3	Castleland	98
4	Cadoc	98
5	Gibbonsdown	98
6	Dyfan	97
7	Baruc	96
8	Peterston-super-Ely	96
9	Wenvoe	96
10	Illtyd	96
11	Sully	94

Which road in Barry has the highest level of crime?

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