Crime Statistics for Forge Side, Blaenavon, Torfaen, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Forge Side in August 2024. There were a total of 30 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 Forge Side, 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime11
Anti Social Behaviour9
Public Order5
Vehicle Crime3
Criminal Damage Arson2
All Crime30

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 Forge Side. 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 Side

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Blaenavon (0.88 miles)112
Cwmtillery (2.63 miles)106
Golynos (2.56 miles)94
Cwm-celyn (2.48 miles)87
Talywain (2.78 miles)87
Garndiffaith (2.24 miles)75
Coedcae (1.24 miles)64
Cwmavon (2.24 miles)35
Forge Side30
Garn-yr-erw (1.39 miles)0

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of residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Forge Side?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Golynos84
Blaenavon52
Cwmtillery37
Coedcae34
Cwm-celyn30
Talywain30
Garndiffaith25
Cwmavon12
Forge Side11
Garn-yr-erw0

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

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 Side 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 Side compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Forge Side and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Forge Side is ranked #5.

#WardScore
1Trevethin99
2Nantyglo99
3Brynmawr99
4Abertillery99
5Blaenavon99
6Cwmtillery98
7Blaina98
8Six Bells98
9Abersychan98
10Llanwenarth Ultra96
11Llanelly Hill94

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

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

Last updated: August 2024
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