Crime Statistics for Croes-y-mwyalch, Newport, Torfaen, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Croes-y-mwyalch in September 2024. There were a total of 142 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Criminal Damage Arson.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Croes-y-mwyalch, 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
Criminal Damage Arson	24
Anti Social Behaviour	23
Shoplifting	14
Public Order	12
Burglary	6
Other Theft	5
Drugs	4
Vehicle Crime	3
Theft From The Person	2
Other Crime	2
Bicycle Theft	1
Possession Of Weapons	1
All Crime	142

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 Croes-y-mwyalch. 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 Croes-y-mwyalch

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Barrack Hill (1.86 miles)	644
Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal (0.95 miles)	291
Malpas (1.24 miles)	233
Bettws (1.39 miles)	168
Croes-y-mwyalch	127
Oakfield (0.88 miles)	63
Ponthir (1.24 miles)	51
Hollybush (1.39 miles)	42
Henllys Vale (1.86 miles)	13
Castell-y-bwch (1.86 miles)	13

Where are the most violent places near Croes-y-mwyalch?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Barrack Hill	259
Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal	139
Malpas	73
Bettws	61
Croes-y-mwyalch	45
Oakfield	33
Hollybush	30
Ponthir	26
Henllys Vale	6
Castell-y-bwch	6

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Croes-y-mwyalch?

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 Croes-y-mwyalch 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 Croes-y-mwyalch compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Stow Hill	99
2	Bettws	99
3	St. Julians	98
4	Shaftesbury	98
5	Coed Eva	98
6	Llantarnam	98
7	Allt-yr-yn	98
8	Croesyceiliog South	97
9	Malpas	96
10	Llanyrafon West	96
11	Llanyrafon East and Ponthir	95

Which road in Croes-y-mwyalch has the highest level of crime?

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