Bryn Seion Chapel · Photo: Eirian Evans · CC BY-SA 2.0Compared with UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, Brynteg has more crime per resident than four in five them
Anti-social behaviour stands out: 19.1 per 1,000 residents in Brynteg, against 8.8 in a typical town its size, with 176 recorded in the 12 months to August 2026. Violence recorded locally dropped 6% in a year. The grade is C−, built on crimes police recorded inside the town’s built-up area from September 2023 to August 2026: #18 of 39 in Clwyd. Year on year, 34.6 violent and sexual offences and 13.5 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage occur per 1,000 residents.
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
What stands out about safety in Brynteg
Violent crime fell over the year
In the 12 months to August 2026 police recorded 6% less violent crime per resident in Brynteg than in the year before; across UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people violent crime held steady. Burglary, vehicle crime and criminal damage fell 17% (towns its size: held steady). Trend ↓
More crime than many places its size
Of 487 UK towns of 6,000 to 12,000 people, Brynteg has the 344th lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Holbeach, Chepstow and Market Warsop, higher than Wixams, Bursledon and Whitfield. Towns its size ↓
Written from the police.uk and government data on this page. Figures are crimes police recorded, not convictions.
The grade: C− for Brynteg
A fairly firm grade. Built on 1,331 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Brynteg against every UK town of 1,000 or more.
Per resident, against all UK towns; beside it, how it compares with towns its size.
What police recorded in the last 12 months
Against the typical town its size, Brynteg runs highest on anti-social behaviour (19.1 per 1,000 against 8.8), criminal damage & arson (7.4 per 1,000 against 4.5) and drugs (1.6 per 1,000 against 1). Burglary and vehicle crime sit below it.
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 291 | 31.5 | 22.4 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 176 | 19.1 | 8.8 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 68 | 7.4 | 4.5 |
| Public order | not graded | 45 | 4.9 | 3.6 |
| Other theft | not graded | 36 | 3.9 | 3.2 |
| Other crime | not graded | 16 | 1.7 | 1.5 |
| Drugs | not graded | 15 | 1.6 | 1 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 14 | 1.5 | 1.9 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 12 | 1.3 | 2 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 5 | 0.5 | 1.8 |
| Robbery | Violent | 3 | 0.3 | 0.2 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 1 | 0.1 | 0.1 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 1 | 0.1 | 0.4 |
| Theft from the person | not graded | 1 | 0.1 | 0 |
“Violent” is police.uk’s violence and sexual offences (which includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury), robbery and possession of weapons. Anti-social behaviour isn’t a crime category; shoplifting and other theft happen mostly in shops and town centres rather than to residents, so neither counts in the grade.
September 2025 to August 2026, per 1,000 residents. The tick on each bar is the typical (median) town among UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people.
How Brynteg’s neighbourhoods rank in Wales
0% of residents live in the lowest-crime 30% of Wales’s neighbourhoods, and 22% in the highest-crime 20%. The community safety domain scores recorded crime, anti-social behaviour and fire incidents where people live, so it can read differently from the town-wide rate, which counts crimes where they happened.
Brynteg’s residents by the crime decile of their neighbourhood (LSOA, about 1,500 people) in the Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025 (community safety domain), where 1 is the highest-crime 10% of Wales’s neighbourhoods and 10 the lowest.
344th of 487: Brynteg among towns its size
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Barton on Sea Hampshire | 6,763 | 9.6 | 5 | 3.1 | A |
| … | ||||||
| 106 | Broughton Clwyd | 6,532 | 21.2 | 7.2 | 22.2 | B |
| … | ||||||
| 341 | Wixams Bedfordshire | 6,044 | 35 | 12.4 | 6.5 | C− |
| 342 | Bursledon Hampshire | 8,072 | 33.8 | 14 | 11.4 | C− |
| 343 | Whitfield Kent | 6,509 | 33.2 | 14.7 | 16.8 | C− |
| 344 | Brynteg Clwyd | 9,229 | 34.6 | 13.5 | 4.8 | C− |
| 345 | Hoo St Werburgh Kent | 8,758 | 37.4 | 10.9 | 4.4 | C− |
| 346 | New Ollerton and Ollerton Nottinghamshire | 10,870 | 35.5 | 12.9 | 13.9 | C− |
| 347 | South Merstham Surrey | 9,953 | 32.4 | 16.1 | 13.5 | C− |
| … | ||||||
| 367 | Abergele Clwyd | 8,531 | 39.3 | 11.6 | 11.3 | C− |
| … | ||||||
| 371 | Gwersyllt Clwyd | 7,112 | 38.1 | 13.4 | 9.7 | C− |
| … | ||||||
| 425 | Denbigh Clwyd | 8,072 | 49.5 | 12.7 | 14.8 | D |
| … | ||||||
| 487 | City of London London | 7,820 | 252.8 | 111.5 | 710 | D− |
Safety letters rank against every UK town of 1,000 or more; the order here is context only.
Graded crime per 1,000 residents a year, September 2023 to August 2026, counting from the least: towns ranked near Brynteg, and others in Clwyd.
Crime in Brynteg per 1,000 residents
A crime isn’t a victim: one person can report several, and crimes in a town centre often involve visitors rather than residents.
And about 10 burglaries, vehicle crimes or acts of criminal damage, plus 5 shoplifting and theft reports, in the 12 months to August 2026. Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot is one recorded crime.
How crime in Brynteg has moved
“Towns its size” pools all UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people that police.uk covers each month (Greater Manchester has no data).
Rolling twelve-month rate, per 1,000 residents a year (longer windows for smaller places, where a few crimes swing a month). In the 12 months to August 2026 against the 12 before: violent -6% (towns its size +1%), homes and vehicles -17% (towns its size -1%), shoplifting and theft -2% (towns its size +2%), anti-social behaviour +17% (towns its size +0%).
Lowest recorded crime in Bryn Cefn, Brymbo and Gwenfro; highest in New Broughton
| Ward | Residents | Violent | Homes & vehicles | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bryn Cefn | 2,467 | 19.7 | 7.6 | |
| Brymbo | 1,930 | 30.7 | 10.5 | |
| Gwenfro | 2,334 | 32.3 | 11.1 | |
| New Broughton | 2,498 | 54.4 | 23.8 |
A ward’s rate counts crimes where they happened, not where victims live, so New Broughton records 2× the violent crime per resident of the rest of Brynteg.
Crimes per 1,000 residents a year by council ward (the part of each ward inside Brynteg’s built-up area), September 2023 to August 2026.
Police name a suspect about as often as across UK towns
No suspect was identified for 71% of Brynteg’s burglaries, vehicle crimes and criminal damage, against 69% across UK towns, and for 15% of violent and sexual offences against 19%. Most violent cases close as “unable to prosecute” (63% here), usually because the victim doesn’t support a prosecution. About 7% of violent and 4% of household crimes reached court.
The latest outcome police.uk shows for each crime recorded in the first of the three years (September 2023 to August 2024), so most cases have closed. 514 crimes.
Two people died in collisions on Brynteg’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 16 collisions with injuries inside Brynteg in five years, in which two people died. 6 people were killed or seriously injured: 1 on foot and 1 on a bicycle.
Most UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people (81%) had no road deaths in these five years, so with numbers this small a single collision changes the picture; Brynteg’s two people are context, not a ranking.
Counting serious injuries too, a town of Brynteg’s size at the median for UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people would see about 8 people killed or seriously injured in five years; Brynteg had 6.
Casualties are counted where the collision happened, not where people lived: a main road through town adds through-traffic, and residents’ own risk on roads elsewhere isn’t here. Seriously injured uses the Department for Transport’s adjusted figures, which even out the police forces’ different ways of recording injuries. There’s no national rate here: more than half of road deaths in England and Wales (58%) happen outside every town’s built-up area. Source: DfT road casualty statistics (STATS19), 2021–2025.
Collisions police recorded inside Brynteg’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Brynteg
Brynteg records more graded crime per resident than 5 of its 7 neighbours; only Gwersyllt and Wrexham record more. Tanyfron, 0.7 miles away, records 20.3 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Brynteg’s 34.6.
Per 1,000 residents a year, the same three years. Tap a town for its safety page.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Where crimes happen, not where victims live. police.uk places each crime at a point near where it happened. Town centres with shops, stations, a hospital and nightlife record more crime per resident, and residents of nearby villages who come in to shop or go out are part of that count.
- Bigger towns record more per resident. Across UK towns, recorded crime per resident rises steeply with size, more than in the U.S., so a city’s grade sits low against the whole UK. The “towns its size” figures show where Brynteg sits among towns like it; they are context and don’t change the grade.
- Points are approximate. police.uk moves each point to the nearest of a set of anonymous map points, so crimes near the edge of the built-up area can fall either side of it.
Questions about safety in Brynteg
Is Brynteg safe?
Police recorded 34.6 violent and sexual offences and 13.5 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Brynteg’s built-up area). That earns a C− for safety: less crime per resident than 24% of UK towns. Among 487 UK towns of 6,000 to 12,000 people, Brynteg is 344th from the least crime.
What are the safest areas of Brynteg?
By council ward, Bryn Cefn, Brymbo and Gwenfro record the least violent and household crime per resident: 19.7, 30.7 and 32.3 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 a year (3-year average), against 54.4 in New Broughton.
Is crime going up in Brynteg?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime fell 6%, burglary, vehicle crime and damage fell 17%, shoplifting and theft held steady and anti-social behaviour rose 17%. Across UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, violent crime held steady.
What is the most common crime in Brynteg?
Violence & sexual offences: 291 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came criminal damage & arson (68) and public order (45), with 176 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Brynteg compare with Wrexham?
Wrexham records 62.3 violent and sexual offences and 23.3 crimes against homes and vehicles per 1,000 residents a year, against Brynteg’s 34.6 and 13.5, over the same three years.
Sources: data.police.uk street-level crime, 36 months to August 2026, points inside the built-up-area boundary · ONS Census 2021, output areas summed to the ONS 2022 built-up area · Welsh Government Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025, community safety domain by LSOA · Department for Transport road casualty statistics (STATS19), collisions 2021–2025, points inside the built-up-area boundary · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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