Crime Statistics for Afoitha, Rhosllannerchrugog, Wrexham, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Afoitha in September 2024. There were a total of 94 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 Afoitha, 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	44
Anti Social Behaviour	17
Criminal Damage Arson	14
Other Crime	4
Public Order	4
Drugs	3
Shoplifting	3
Other Theft	2
Vehicle Crime	2
Burglary	1
All Crime	94

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 Afoitha. 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 Afoitha

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Rhosllanerchrugog (0.62 miles)	181
Ponciau (0.62 miles)	150
Johnstown (0.88 miles)	97
Afoitha	94
Pant	82
Rhiwabon (1.39 miles)	59
Rhosymedre (1.96 miles)	49
Ruabon (1.39 miles)	42
Acrefair (1.75 miles)	34
Tai-nant (1.39 miles)	6

Where are the most violent places near Afoitha?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Ponciau	83
Rhosllanerchrugog	78
Pant	64
Ruabon	49
Afoitha	44
Johnstown	40
Rhiwabon	31
Rhosymedre	21
Acrefair	13
Tai-nant	2

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

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 Afoitha 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 Afoitha compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Afoitha and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Afoitha is ranked #6.

#	Ward	Score
1	Plas Madoc	99
2	Pant	99
3	Ponciau	98
4	Ruabon	98
5	Penycae	98
6	Penycae and Ruabon South	97
7	Cefn	97
8	Esclusham	97
9	Johnstown	97
10	Chirk North	96
11	Llangollen Rural	95

Which road in Afoitha has the highest level of crime?

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