Crime Statistics for Pontymoel, Pontypool, Torfaen, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Pontymoel in October 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 Anti Social Behaviour.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Pontymoel, 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	64
Anti Social Behaviour	17
Public Order	15
Criminal Damage Arson	14
Shoplifting	13
Other Crime	5
Other Theft	5
Drugs	4
Burglary	3
Robbery	1
Possession Of Weapons	1
All Crime	142

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 Pontymoel. 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 Pontymoel

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Pontnewynydd (1.39 miles)	174
Cwm-Fields (0.62 miles)	147
Pontypool (0.62 miles)	147
Pontymoel	128
Lower New Inn (1.39 miles)	122
Lower Race (1.24 miles)	100
Griffithstown (0.62 miles)	86
New Inn (0.88 miles)	85
Cwmynyscoy (0.88 miles)	55
Panteg (1.39 miles)	43

Where are the most violent places near Pontymoel?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Pontnewynydd	76
Lower New Inn	71
Cwm-Fields	64
Pontypool	64
Pontymoel	64
Cwmynyscoy	53
Griffithstown	49
Lower Race	41
New Inn	38
Panteg	10

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

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 Pontymoel 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 Pontymoel compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Pontymoel and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Residents in Pontymoel have the highest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is New Inn.

#	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	Pontnewydd	98
9	Pontnewynydd	98
10	Panteg	97
11	New Inn	96

Which road in Pontymoel has the highest level of crime?

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