Crime Statistics for Lower Race, Pontypool, Torfaen, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Lower Race in September 2024. There were a total of 67 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 Lower Race, 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	22
Anti Social Behaviour	17
Public Order	12
Criminal Damage Arson	11
Drugs	2
Vehicle Crime	2
Other Crime	1
All Crime	67

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 Lower Race. 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 Lower Race

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Pontnewynydd (0.62 miles)	176
Cwm-Fields (0.62 miles)	127
Pontypool (0.62 miles)	127
Pontymoel (1.24 miles)	114
Griffithstown (1.39 miles)	109
New Inn (1.96 miles)	102
Cwmynyscoy (0.88 miles)	76
Cwm Ffrwd-oer (0.88 miles)	68
Lower Race	67
Old Furnace (0.62 miles)	3

Where are the most violent places near Lower Race?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Pontnewynydd	84
Griffithstown	50
Cwm-Fields	48
Pontypool	48
New Inn	48
Pontymoel	43
Cwmynyscoy	38
Cwm Ffrwd-oer	30
Lower Race	22
Old Furnace	1

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

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 Lower Race 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 Lower Race compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Lower Race and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Lower Race is ranked #4.

#	Ward	Score
1	Pontypool	99
2	Trevethin	99
3	St. Cadocs and Penygarn	99
4	Brynwern	99
5	Cwmyniscoy	99
6	Snatchwood	99
7	Upper Cwmbran	98
8	Abersychan	98
9	Pontnewynydd	98
10	Panteg	97
11	New Inn	96

Which road in Lower Race has the highest level of crime?

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