Photo: Liquidia · CC BY-SA 3.0On violent crime, Connah's Quay has a higher rate per resident than 75% of UK towns
Measured on crimes police recorded inside Connah's Quay’s built-up area between September 2023 and August 2026, it earns a Safety Grade of C: #15 of 39 in Clwyd. Add to that, recorded violence rose 6% in a year. Police recorded 156 cases of shoplifting here in the 12 months to August 2026, a rate of 9.3 per 1,000 against a typical 6.1. Violence and property crime split as 33.3 violent and sexual offences and 10.6 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage per 1,000 residents a year.
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
What stands out about safety in Connah's Quay
Violent crime rose over the year
In the 12 months to August 2026 police recorded 6% more violent crime per resident in Connah's Quay than in the year before; across UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people violent crime held steady. Burglary, vehicle crime and criminal damage rose 5% (towns its size: held steady). Trend ↓
About the middle for a town its size
Of 317 UK towns of 12,000 to 23,000 people, Connah's Quay has the 165th lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Skipton, Middlewich and Cirencester, higher than Teignmouth, Kirk Sandall and Edenthorpe and Ringwood. Towns its size ↓
Neighbourhood ranks
29% of Connah's Quay’s residents live in a neighbourhood ranked in the highest-crime 20% of Wales (WIMD 2025 community safety), and 20% in the lowest-crime 30%. Neighbourhood ranks ↓
Written from the police.uk and government data on this page. Figures are crimes police recorded, not convictions.
Connah's Quay: C for safety, and why
A firm grade. Built on 2,209 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Connah's Quay 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, Connah's Quay runs highest on shoplifting (9.3 per 1,000 against 6.1), anti-social behaviour (17.4 per 1,000 against 12.4) and public order (6.9 per 1,000 against 5.4). Burglary and vehicle crime sit below it.
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 543 | 32.4 | 30.4 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 291 | 17.4 | 12.4 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 156 | 9.3 | 6.1 |
| Public order | not graded | 115 | 6.9 | 5.4 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 106 | 6.3 | 6.2 |
| Other theft | not graded | 66 | 3.9 | 4.4 |
| Drugs | not graded | 32 | 1.9 | 1.9 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 28 | 1.7 | 2.4 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 27 | 1.6 | 2.8 |
| Other crime | not graded | 26 | 1.6 | 1.8 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 9 | 0.5 | 0.3 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 9 | 0.5 | 0.7 |
| Robbery | Violent | 8 | 0.5 | 0.5 |
| Theft from the person | not graded | 1 | 0.1 | 0.3 |
“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 10,000 to 50,000 people.
29% of Connah's Quay residents live in one of Wales’s highest-crime neighbourhoods
20% of residents live in the lowest-crime 30% of Wales’s neighbourhoods, and 29% 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.
Connah's Quay’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.
Crime in Connah's Quay 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 14 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 Connah's Quay has moved
“Towns its size” pools all UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people that police.uk covers each month (Greater Manchester has no data).
Rolling six-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 +5% (towns its size -2%), shoplifting and theft +20% (towns its size +1%), anti-social behaviour +4% (towns its size -4%).
Police name a suspect about as often as across UK towns
No suspect was identified for 65% of Connah's Quay’s burglaries, vehicle crimes and criminal damage, against 69% across UK towns, and for 13% of violent and sexual offences against 19%. Most violent cases close as “unable to prosecute” (66% here), usually because the victim doesn’t support a prosecution. About 8% of violent and 6% 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. 807 crimes.
Lowest recorded crime in Connah's Quay South, Connah's Quay: Golftyn and Connah's Quay: Wepre; highest in Connah's Quay Central
| Ward | Residents | Violent | Homes & vehicles | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Connah's Quay South | 4,571 | 13.4 | 4.5 | |
| Connah's Quay: Golftyn | 5,242 | 34.7 | 10.1 | |
| Connah's Quay: Wepre | 2,339 | 37.2 | 11.5 | |
| Connah's Quay Central | 4,616 | 49.4 | 16.8 |
| At or near | Reports | Mostly |
|---|---|---|
| Car parks | 191 | 27% violent |
| Supermarkets | 153 | 63% shoplifting & theft |
| Sports and recreation grounds | 141 | 48% violent |
| Petrol stations | 128 | 70% shoplifting & theft |
| Parks and open spaces | 40 | 35% homes & vehicles |
A ward’s rate counts crimes where they happened, not where victims live, so Connah's Quay Central records 1.8× the violent crime per resident of the rest of Connah's Quay. police.uk places each crime at an anonymous map point; some are named for the kind of place (a supermarket, a car park), and each row adds up every place of that kind in Connah's Quay. We show only these, never streets or homes.
Crimes per 1,000 residents a year by council ward (the part of each ward inside Connah's Quay’s built-up area), September 2023 to August 2026. Beside it, the public places police.uk named most often.
Towns its size: Connah's Quay comes 165th of 317
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kesgrave Suffolk | 14,947 | 13 | 3.3 | 2.7 | A |
| … | ||||||
| 57 | Hawarden Clwyd | 14,284 | 23.5 | 7.8 | 7.6 | B− |
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| 117 | Buckley Clwyd | 13,562 | 29.7 | 8.2 | 9.3 | C+ |
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| 152 | Conwy Clwyd | 15,706 | 31 | 10.7 | 8.5 | C |
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| 162 | Teignmouth Devon | 15,314 | 32 | 11.3 | 12.3 | C |
| 163 | Kirk Sandall and Edenthorpe South Yorkshire | 13,090 | 24.2 | 19.1 | 7.6 | C |
| 164 | Ringwood Hampshire | 12,789 | 28.8 | 14.9 | 13.6 | C |
| 165 | Connah's Quay Clwyd | 16,768 | 33.3 | 10.6 | 12 | C |
| 166 | Market Drayton Shropshire | 12,062 | 33.2 | 10.8 | 12.5 | C |
| 167 | Ashby-de-la-Zouch Leicestershire | 15,121 | 28.4 | 15.7 | 9.4 | C |
| 168 | Wantage Oxfordshire | 13,100 | 33.2 | 10.9 | 10.8 | C |
| … | ||||||
| 230 | Prestatyn Clwyd | 16,678 | 41.3 | 12.2 | 18.7 | C− |
| … | ||||||
| 317 | Haverfordwest Dyfed | 12,088 | 91.4 | 28.6 | 32.3 | 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 Connah's Quay, and others in Clwyd.
One person died in collisions on Connah's Quay’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 42 collisions with injuries inside Connah's Quay in five years, in which one person died. 14 people were killed or seriously injured: 4 on foot and 5 on a bicycle.
That is about what is typical for UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people: at their median rate (0.9 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Connah's Quay’s size would see about 1 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Connah's Quay’s own rate (1.2) is context, not a ranking.
Counting serious injuries too, Connah's Quay had 16.7 people killed or seriously injured per 100,000 residents a year, below the median for UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people (23.8).
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 Connah's Quay’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Connah's Quay
| Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Connah's Quay | 16,768 | 33.3 | 10.6 | C |
| Shotton | 6,500 | 57.9 | 17.9 | D |
| Northop Hall | 1,826 | 16.6 | 5.1 | A− |
| Aston | 2,847 | 18.2 | 7.6 | B+ |
| Hawarden | 14,284 | 23.5 | 7.8 | B− |
| Garden City | 2,427 | 66.3 | 26.8 | D− |
| Northop | 1,030 | 18.1 | 4.2 | A− |
| Buckley | 13,562 | 29.7 | 8.2 | C+ |
Connah's Quay records more graded crime per resident than 5 of its 7 neighbours; only Shotton and Garden City record more. Northop Hall, 1.4 miles away, records 16.6 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Connah's Quay’s 33.3.
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 Connah's Quay 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 Connah's Quay
Is Connah's Quay safe?
Police recorded 33.3 violent and sexual offences and 10.6 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Connah's Quay’s built-up area). That earns a C for safety: less crime per resident than 29% of UK towns. Among 317 UK towns of 12,000 to 23,000 people, Connah's Quay is 165th from the least crime.
What are the safest areas of Connah's Quay?
By council ward, Connah's Quay South, Connah's Quay: Golftyn and Connah's Quay: Wepre record the least violent and household crime per resident: 13.4, 34.7 and 37.2 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 a year (3-year average), against 49.4 in Connah's Quay Central.
Is crime going up in Connah's Quay?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime rose 6%, burglary, vehicle crime and damage rose 5%, shoplifting and theft rose 20% and anti-social behaviour held steady. Across UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people, violent crime held steady.
What is the most common crime in Connah's Quay?
Violence & sexual offences: 543 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came shoplifting (156) and public order (115), with 291 reports of anti-social behaviour.
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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