Crime Statistics for Oakfield, Croes-y-mwyalch, TorFaen (Torfaen), 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Oakfield in September 2024. There were a total of 75 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 Oakfield, 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	33
Public Order	11
Anti Social Behaviour	8
Criminal Damage Arson	7
Vehicle Crime	4
Burglary	3
Other Crime	2
Possession Of Weapons	2
Bicycle Theft	2
Theft From The Person	2
Other Theft	1
All Crime	75

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 Oakfield. 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 Oakfield

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Southville (1.24 miles)	324
Forge Hammer (1.24 miles)	324
Cwmbran (1.24 miles)	324
Fairwater (1.39 miles)	210
Croes-y-mwyalch (0.88 miles)	127
Oakfield	63
Hollybush (0.62 miles)	42
Coed Eva (1.24 miles)	31
Henllys Vale (1.39 miles)	13
Castell-y-bwch (1.39 miles)	13

Where are the most violent places near Oakfield?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Fairwater	220
Southville	115
Forge Hammer	115
Cwmbran	115
Croes-y-mwyalch	45
Oakfield	33
Hollybush	30
Coed Eva	13
Henllys Vale	6
Castell-y-bwch	6

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

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 Oakfield 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 Oakfield compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Greenmeadow	99
2	St. Dials	99
3	Coed Eva	98
4	Llantarnam	98
5	Fairwater	97
6	Croesyceiliog South	97
7	Malpas	96
8	Two Locks	96
9	Llanyrafon West	96
10	Croesyceiliog North	96
11	Llanyrafon East and Ponthir	95

Which road in Oakfield has the highest level of crime?

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