Crime Statistics for Baglan, Wales, Neath Port Talbot, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Baglan in September 2024. There were a total of 87 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 Baglan, 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 Crime38
Anti Social Behaviour18
Other Theft7
Shoplifting7
Criminal Damage Arson6
Public Order6
Other Crime2
Vehicle Crime1
Burglary1
Robbery1
All Crime87

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 Baglan. 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 Baglan

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Corlannau (1.39 miles)199
Aberavon (1.24 miles)190
Sandfields (1.39 miles)152
Pantdu (1.39 miles)122
Caerhendy (1.39 miles)122
Baglan87
Briton Ferry (1.75 miles)67
Brynbryddan (1.24 miles)26
Neath (1.46 miles)21
Gelli-gaer (1.39 miles)4

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Where are the most violent places near Baglan?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Corlannau75
Aberavon66
Sandfields66
Pantdu38
Caerhendy38
Baglan38
Briton Ferry34
Brynbryddan15
Neath9
Gelli-gaer2

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

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 Baglan 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 Baglan compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Aberavon98
2Port Talbot98
3Briton Ferry West98
4Neath East98
5Sandfields East98
6Sandfields West97
7Tai-bach97
8Briton Ferry East97
9Neath South97
10Bryn and Cwmavon96
11Baglan95

Which road in Baglan has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: September 2024
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