Crime Statistics for Pencarreg, Carmarthenshire, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Pencarreg in July 2024. There were a total of 8 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Burglary.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Pencarreg, 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 Crime7
Burglary1
All Crime8

Map of street level crime incidents in July 2024

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

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Lampeter (3.1 miles)47
Cwmann (3.34 miles)30
Pencarreg8
Alltyblaca (0.62 miles)7
Ram (3.16 miles)6
Afon Grannell (1.58 miles)2
Aber-Giar (3.1 miles)1
Silian (4.48 miles)0
Cwrtnewydd (3.34 miles)0
Dre-fach (1.86 miles)0

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Where are the most violent places near Pencarreg?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Cwmann36
Lampeter24
Pencarreg7
Alltyblaca6
Ram4
Afon Grannell2
Aber-Giar1
Silian0
Cwrtnewydd0
Dre-fach0

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

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 Pencarreg 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 Pencarreg compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Lampeter98
2Llandysul Town96
3Llanfihangel Ystrad95
4Llanfihangel-ar-Arth95
5Llanarth95
6Llanybydder94
7Llangeitho94
8Capel Dewi94
9Llandysilio-gogo94
10Llangybi94
11Llanwenog94

Which road in Pencarreg has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: July 2024
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