Pentre Maelor records more crime per resident than 97% of UK towns
Recorded violence held steady in a year. It has more violent crime than 99% of UK towns, and more burglary, vehicle crime and damage than 62%. On the record of crimes police recorded inside Pentre Maelor’s built-up area from September 2023 to August 2026, it takes D− for safety. Violence and property crime split as 75.4 violent and sexual offences and 11.2 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.
Pentre Maelor: D− for safety, and why
A firm grade. Built on 471 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Pentre Maelor 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, Pentre Maelor runs highest on other crime (15.4 per 1,000 against 1.1), violence & sexual offences (75.5 per 1,000 against 16.6) and public order (9.9 per 1,000 against 2.4).
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 137 | 75.5 | 16.6 |
| Other crime | not graded | 28 | 15.4 | 1.1 |
| Public order | not graded | 18 | 9.9 | 2.4 |
| Other theft | not graded | 15 | 8.3 | 2.5 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 13 | 7.2 | 3.2 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 13 | 7.2 | 5.3 |
| Drugs | not graded | 9 | 5 | 0.6 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 4 | 2.2 | 0 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 2 | 1.1 | 1.5 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 1 | 0.6 | 1.6 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 1 | 0.6 | 0 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 1 | 0.6 | 0 |
| Theft from the person | not graded | 1 | 0.6 | 0 |
| Robbery | Violent | 0 | 0 | 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 1,000 to 2,500 people.
How Pentre Maelor compares with UK towns of 1,000 to 2,000
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Clipsham Rutland | 1,150 | 0 | 0 | 0 | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 27 | Higher Kinnerton Clwyd | 1,731 | 6 | 2.5 | 0.2 | A+ |
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| 53 | Soughton Clwyd | 1,697 | 7.7 | 2.8 | 2.6 | A+ |
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| 305 | Dwygyfylchi Clwyd | 1,403 | 13.1 | 4.8 | 3.8 | A |
| … | ||||||
| 351 | Llansanffraid Glan Conwy Clwyd | 1,663 | 14.4 | 4.2 | 2.4 | A |
| … | ||||||
| 1195 | Frizington Cumbria | 1,754 | 62.5 | 23 | 9.1 | D− |
| 1196 | Pontlottyn Gwent | 1,832 | 48.2 | 37.8 | 6 | D− |
| 1197 | Streethouse West Yorkshire | 1,691 | 67.3 | 19.3 | 7.9 | D− |
| 1198 | Pentre Maelor Clwyd | 1,814 | 75.4 | 11.2 | 9 | D− |
| 1199 | Camber East Sussex | 1,132 | 61.5 | 25.3 | 14.4 | D− |
| 1200 | Salfords Surrey | 1,873 | 61.6 | 25.3 | 15.3 | D− |
| 1201 | Meon Vale Warwickshire | 1,413 | 73.8 | 20.3 | 7.3 | D− |
| … | ||||||
| 1214 | Ingoldmells Lincolnshire | 1,928 | 259 | 64.7 | 57.2 | 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 Pentre Maelor, and others in Clwyd.
Police in Pentre Maelor identify a suspect less often than across UK towns
No suspect was identified for 83% of Pentre Maelor’s burglaries, vehicle crimes and criminal damage, against 69% across UK towns, and for 8% of violent and sexual offences against 19%. Most violent cases close as “unable to prosecute” (43% here), usually because the victim doesn’t support a prosecution. About 32% of violent and 11% 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. 145 crimes.
Crime in Pentre Maelor 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 9 burglaries, vehicle crimes or acts of criminal damage, plus 12 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 Pentre Maelor has moved
“Towns its size” pools all UK towns of 1,000 to 2,500 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 -5% (towns its size +3%), homes and vehicles -41% (towns its size +0%).
One person died in collisions on Pentre Maelor’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 13 collisions with injuries inside Pentre Maelor in five years, in which one person died. 4 people were killed or seriously injured: 0 on foot and 1 on a bicycle.
Most UK towns of 1,000 to 2,500 people (94%) had no road deaths in these five years, so with numbers this small a single collision changes the picture; Pentre Maelor’s one death is context, not a ranking.
Counting serious injuries too, a town of Pentre Maelor’s size at the median for UK towns of 1,000 to 2,500 people would see about 1 people killed or seriously injured in five years; Pentre Maelor had 4.
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 Pentre Maelor’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Pentre Maelor
Pentre Maelor records more graded crime per resident than every neighbour in the table. Marchwiel, 1.6 miles away, records 22.5 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Pentre Maelor’s 75.4.
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 Pentre Maelor 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 Pentre Maelor
Is Pentre Maelor safe?
Police recorded 75.4 violent and sexual offences and 11.2 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Pentre Maelor’s built-up area). That earns a D− for safety: less crime per resident than 3% of UK towns. Among UK towns of 1,000 to 2,500 people, Pentre Maelor has less crime per resident than 1%.
Is crime going up in Pentre Maelor?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime held steady, burglary, vehicle crime and damage fell 41%, shoplifting and theft rose 24% and anti-social behaviour fell 7%. Across UK towns of 1,000 to 2,500 people, violent crime held steady.
What is the most common crime in Pentre Maelor?
Violence & sexual offences: 137 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came other crime (28) and public order (18), with 13 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Pentre Maelor 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 Pentre Maelor’s 75.4 and 11.2, 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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