Crime Statistics for Ffos-y-fran, Abercanaid, Merthyr Tydfil, 2024

Is Ffos-y-fran rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for November 2024. There were a total of 241 incidents. 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 Ffos-y-fran, 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 Crime68
Shoplifting38
Anti Social Behaviour36
Criminal Damage Arson24
Vehicle Crime20
Public Order20
Theft From The Person8
Burglary8
Drugs8
Other Crime7
Other Theft4
All Crime241

Map of street level crime incidents in November 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Ffos-y-fran. 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 Ffos-y-fran

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Dowlais (1.39 miles)152
Pant (1.86 miles)140
Twynyrodyn (0.62 miles)126
Ffos-y-fran122
Heolgerrig (1.96 miles)80
Dowlais Top (1.96 miles)78
Gellideg (2.77 miles)64
Clwydyfagwyr (2.56 miles)31
Abercanaid (1.39 miles)19
Bedlinog (3.1 miles)14

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of residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Ffos-y-fran?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Dowlais88
Pant76
Ffos-y-fran68
Twynyrodyn37
Dowlais Top24
Heolgerrig22
Gellideg19
Clwydyfagwyr11
Abercanaid10
Bedlinog8

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Ffos-y-fran?

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 Ffos-y-fran 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 Ffos-y-fran compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Ffos-y-fran and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Ffos-y-fran is ranked #9.

#WardScore
1Twyn Carno99
2Gurnos99
3Park98
4Aberdare East98
5Dowlais98
6Darren Valley97
7Cwmbach97
8Penydarren97
9Town97
10Plymouth97
11Vaynor97

Which road in Ffos-y-fran has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: November 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
Published under the Open Government Licence v3.0

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