Photo: Eirian Evans · CC BY-SA 2.0Gwersyllt records possession of weapons at 3.6 times the rate of a typical town its size
For its size, it sits below 17% of the 1,308 UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people on crime per resident. On top of that, recorded violence rose 13% in a year. Overall, it grades C− for safety (#22 of 39 in Clwyd). Out of every 1,000 residents, 38.1 violent and sexual offences and 13.4 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage are reported annually.
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
What stands out about safety in Gwersyllt
Violent crime rose over the year
In the 12 months to August 2026 police recorded 13% more violent crime per resident in Gwersyllt 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 rose 35% (towns its size: held steady). Trend ↓
More crime than many places its size
Of 546 UK towns of 5,000 to 10,000 people, Gwersyllt has the 420th lowest rate of graded crime: lower than London Colney, Paddock Wood and Bagillt, higher than Takeley and Little Canfield, Longstanton and Northstowe and Yapton. Towns its size ↓
Many neighbourhoods rank low for crime in Wales
The Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025 ranks every neighbourhood in Wales on community safety. 13% of Gwersyllt’s residents live in one of the lowest-crime 10%, and 41% in one of the highest-crime 20%. Neighbourhood ranks ↓
Written from the police.uk and government data on this page. Figures are crimes police recorded, not convictions.
What sits behind Gwersyllt’s C−
A firm grade. Built on 1,096 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Gwersyllt 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, Gwersyllt runs highest on possession of weapons (1.4 per 1,000 against 0.4), anti-social behaviour (23.3 per 1,000 against 8.8) and drugs (2.7 per 1,000 against 1).
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 286 | 40.2 | 22.4 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 166 | 23.3 | 8.8 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 77 | 10.8 | 4.5 |
| Public order | not graded | 42 | 5.9 | 3.6 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 31 | 4.4 | 1.8 |
| Other theft | not graded | 29 | 4.1 | 3.2 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 19 | 2.7 | 1.9 |
| Drugs | not graded | 19 | 2.7 | 1 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 16 | 2.2 | 2 |
| Other crime | not graded | 16 | 2.2 | 1.5 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 10 | 1.4 | 0.4 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 6 | 0.8 | 0.1 |
| Robbery | Violent | 2 | 0.3 | 0.2 |
| 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.
1 in 8 Gwersyllt residents lives in one of Wales’s lowest-crime neighbourhoods
13% of residents live in the lowest-crime 30% of Wales’s neighbourhoods, and 41% 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.
Gwersyllt’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.
Gwersyllt against towns its size
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Merley Dorset | 5,489 | 8.4 | 2.8 | 3.8 | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 139 | Broughton Clwyd | 6,532 | 21.2 | 7.2 | 22.2 | B |
| … | ||||||
| 392 | Brynteg Clwyd | 9,229 | 34.6 | 13.5 | 4.8 | C− |
| … | ||||||
| 405 | Ruthin Clwyd | 5,700 | 39.8 | 9.6 | 8.3 | C− |
| … | ||||||
| 415 | Abergele Clwyd | 8,531 | 39.3 | 11.6 | 11.3 | C− |
| … | ||||||
| 417 | Takeley and Little Canfield Essex | 5,553 | 31.3 | 19.8 | 11.8 | C− |
| 418 | Longstanton and Northstowe Cambridgeshire | 5,278 | 35.2 | 16.1 | 7.4 | C− |
| 419 | Yapton West Sussex | 6,337 | 31.9 | 19.4 | 12 | C− |
| 420 | Gwersyllt Clwyd | 7,112 | 38.1 | 13.4 | 9.7 | C− |
| 421 | Pelton and Ouston County Durham | 7,305 | 31 | 20.4 | 6.8 | C− |
| 422 | Crediton Devon | 7,971 | 39.3 | 12.2 | 15.6 | C− |
| 423 | Rainworth Nottinghamshire | 7,990 | 41.6 | 10 | 7.1 | C− |
| … | ||||||
| 546 | 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 Gwersyllt, and others in Clwyd.
How crime in Gwersyllt 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 +13% (towns its size +1%), homes and vehicles +35% (towns its size -1%), shoplifting and theft -7% (towns its size +2%), anti-social behaviour +41% (towns its size +0%).
Crime in Gwersyllt 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 16 burglaries, vehicle crimes or acts of criminal damage, plus 9 shoplifting and theft reports, in the 12 months to August 2026. Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot is one recorded crime.
Lowest recorded crime in Gwersyllt South, Gwersyllt North and Gwersyllt West
| Ward | Residents | Violent | Homes & vehicles | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gwersyllt South | 1,098 | 29.4 | 11.2 | |
| Gwersyllt North | 2,439 | 35.9 | 10.3 | |
| Gwersyllt West | 2,535 | 37.7 | 17.6 | |
| Gwersyllt East | 1,040 | 52.6 | 12.5 |
| At or near | Reports | Mostly |
|---|---|---|
| Car parks | 136 | 63% shoplifting & theft |
| Petrol stations | 25 | 56% shoplifting & theft |
| Supermarkets | 23 | 48% shoplifting & theft |
A ward’s rate counts crimes where they happened, not where victims live. 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 Gwersyllt. We show only these, never streets or homes.
Crimes per 1,000 residents a year by council ward (the part of each ward inside Gwersyllt’s built-up area), September 2023 to August 2026. Beside it, the public places police.uk named most often.
Police name a suspect about as often as across UK towns
No suspect was identified for 67% of Gwersyllt’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” (61% here), usually because the victim doesn’t support a prosecution. About 11% 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. 339 crimes.
One person died in collisions on Gwersyllt’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 22 collisions with injuries inside Gwersyllt in five years, in which one person died (1 was a cyclist). 12 people were killed or seriously injured: 1 on foot and 3 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; Gwersyllt’s one death is context, not a ranking.
Counting serious injuries too, Gwersyllt had 34.0 people killed or seriously injured per 100,000 residents a year, above the median for UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people (16.7).
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 Gwersyllt’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Gwersyllt
Gwersyllt records more graded crime per resident than 6 of its 7 neighbours; only Wrexham records more. Bradley, 0.7 miles away, records 13.4 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Gwersyllt’s 38.1.
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 Gwersyllt 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 Gwersyllt
Is Gwersyllt safe?
Police recorded 38.1 violent and sexual offences and 13.4 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Gwersyllt’s built-up area). That earns a C− for safety: less crime per resident than 20% of UK towns. Among 546 UK towns of 5,000 to 10,000 people, Gwersyllt is 420th from the least crime. 13% of residents live in neighbourhoods in Wales’s lowest-crime 10%.
What are the safest areas of Gwersyllt?
By council ward, Gwersyllt South, Gwersyllt North and Gwersyllt West record the least violent and household crime per resident: 29.4, 35.9 and 37.7 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 a year (3-year average), against 52.6 in Gwersyllt East.
Is crime going up in Gwersyllt?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime rose 13%, burglary, vehicle crime and damage rose 35%, shoplifting and theft fell 7% and anti-social behaviour rose 41%. Across UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, violent crime held steady.
What is the most common crime in Gwersyllt?
Violence & sexual offences: 286 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came criminal damage & arson (77) and public order (42), with 166 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Gwersyllt 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 Gwersyllt’s 38.1 and 13.4, 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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