Crime Statistics for Shelf, Coychurch, Bridgend, 2024

There were a total of 60 street level crime incidents in Shelf in March 2024. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Shoplifting.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Shelf, 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	28
Shoplifting	8
Anti Social Behaviour	7
Public Order	6
Criminal Damage Arson	4
Drugs	2
Other Theft	2
Other Crime	2
Burglary	1
All Crime	60

Map of street level crime incidents in March 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Shelf. 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 Shelf

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Bridgend (Pen-y-bont Ar Ogwr) (1.86 miles)	319
Byeastwood (0.88 miles)	138
Coity (0.88 miles)	138
Pant-y-pyllau (1.39 miles)	90
Pencoed (1.39 miles)	61
Shelf	60
Heronston (1.76 miles)	43
Heol-las (1.24 miles)	37
Ogmore (0.79 miles)	20
Waterton (1.24 miles)	14

Where are the most violent places near Shelf?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Bridgend (Pen-y-bont Ar Ogwr)	116
Byeastwood	63
Coity	63
Pencoed	32
Pant-y-pyllau	30
Shelf	28
Heronston	19
Heol-las	12
Ogmore	11
Waterton	3

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

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 Shelf 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 Shelf compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Shelf and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward. Shelf is ranked #8.

#	Ward	Score
1	Morfa	98
2	Coychurch Lower	98
3	Oldcastle	97
4	Newcastle	96
5	Felindre	96
6	Pendre	96
7	Coity	96
8	Brackla	95
9	Bryntirion, Laleston and Merthyr Mawr	95
10	Litchard	95
11	Hendre	94

Which road in Shelf has the highest level of crime?

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

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