Crime Statistics for Forge Hammer, Cwmbran, Torfaen, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Forge Hammer in October 2024. There were a total of 517 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 Forge Hammer, 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	223
Public Order	65
Shoplifting	56
Anti Social Behaviour	55
Criminal Damage Arson	40
Other Theft	38
Burglary	20
Vehicle Crime	5
Robbery	4
Other Crime	4
Possession Of Weapons	3
Drugs	3
Theft From The Person	1
All Crime	517

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 Forge Hammer. 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 Forge Hammer

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Southville	670
Pontnewydd (0.62 miles)	366
Forge Hammer	337
Cwmbran	321
Croesyceiliog (0.88 miles)	272
Pontrhydyrun (1.24 miles)	241
Greenmeadow (1.24 miles)	171
Upper Cwmbran (1.39 miles)	129
Fairwater (1.39 miles)	125
Oakfield (1.24 miles)	80

Where are the most violent places near Forge Hammer?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Southville	265
Forge Hammer	223
Cwmbran	211
Pontnewydd	136
Upper Cwmbran	89
Croesyceiliog	88
Greenmeadow	85
Pontrhydyrun	81
Fairwater	69
Oakfield	40

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

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 Forge Hammer 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 Forge Hammer compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Greenmeadow	99
2	St. Dials	99
3	Upper Cwmbran	98
4	Pontnewydd	98
5	Coed Eva	98
6	Llantarnam	98
7	Fairwater	97
8	Croesyceiliog South	97
9	Two Locks	96
10	Llanyrafon West	96
11	Croesyceiliog North	96

Which road in Forge Hammer has the highest level of crime?

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