Photo: Jeff Buck · CC BY-SA 2.0Among UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, Penyffordd records less crime per resident than 91%
Of all the kinds of crime, anti-social behaviour is where Penyffordd departs most from towns its size: 13.3 per 1,000 against 8.8. Overall, it grades A for safety (#4 of 39 in Clwyd). Violence recorded locally dropped 23% in a year. Year on year, 13.9 violent and sexual offences and 5.2 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 Penyffordd
Violent crime fell over the year
In the 12 months to August 2026 police recorded 23% less violent crime per resident in Penyffordd than in the year before; across UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people violent crime held steady. Trend ↓
Less crime than most places its size
Of 539 UK towns of 3,000 to 5,000 people, Penyffordd has the 65th lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Messingham, Batheaston and Milford on Sea, higher than Windlesham, Honeybourne and Bramley and Wonersh. Towns its size ↓
Written from the police.uk and government data on this page. Figures are crimes police recorded, not convictions.
What’s behind Penyffordd’s grade
A fairly firm grade. Built on 219 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Penyffordd against every UK town of 1,000 or more.
Per resident, against all UK towns; beside it, how it compares with towns its size.
How crime in Penyffordd 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 -23% (towns its size +1%), homes and vehicles -79% (towns its size -1%), anti-social behaviour +50% (towns its size +0%).
How Penyffordd’s neighbourhoods rank in Wales
44% of residents live in the lowest-crime 30% of Wales’s neighbourhoods, and 0% 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.
Penyffordd’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.
Set against 539 towns its size, Penyffordd is 65th
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bailrigg Lancashire | 4,788 | 4.7 | 2.5 | 7.9 | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 28 | Mynydd Isa Clwyd | 4,738 | 12.2 | 3.5 | 1.8 | A |
| … | ||||||
| 34 | Penrhyn Bay Clwyd | 4,201 | 13 | 3.7 | 4.2 | A |
| … | ||||||
| 40 | Gresford Clwyd | 4,948 | 11.5 | 5.7 | 5.1 | A |
| … | ||||||
| 62 | Windlesham Surrey | 3,706 | 10.3 | 8.5 | 3.7 | A |
| 63 | Honeybourne Worcestershire | 3,104 | 13.4 | 5.5 | 5.2 | A |
| 64 | Bramley and Wonersh Surrey | 4,193 | 11.8 | 7.2 | 5.6 | A |
| 65 | Penyffordd Clwyd | 3,822 | 13.9 | 5.2 | 5.6 | A |
| 66 | Romanby North Yorkshire | 3,825 | 14.2 | 5.1 | 4.7 | A− |
| 67 | Saltford Somerset | 4,133 | 15 | 4.3 | 3.7 | A− |
| 68 | Disley Cheshire | 3,891 | 13.3 | 6.3 | 3.9 | A− |
| … | ||||||
| 361 | Hope Clwyd | 4,422 | 29 | 8.9 | 5.5 | C+ |
| … | ||||||
| 539 | Eastchurch Kent | 3,381 | 132 | 13.9 | 3.5 | 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 Penyffordd, and others in Clwyd.
What police recorded in the last 12 months
Against the typical town its size, Penyffordd runs highest on anti-social behaviour (13.3 per 1,000 against 8.8). Violence & sexual offences sits below it.
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 51 | 13.3 | 8.8 |
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 46 | 12 | 22.4 |
| Public order | not graded | 12 | 3.1 | 3.6 |
| Other theft | not graded | 12 | 3.1 | 3.2 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 8 | 2.1 | 1.8 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 5 | 1.3 | 4.5 |
| Drugs | not graded | 4 | 1 | 1 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 1 | 0.3 | 1.9 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 1 | 0.3 | 0.1 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Other crime | not graded | 0 | 0 | 1.5 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 0 | 0 | 0.4 |
| Robbery | Violent | 0 | 0 | 0.2 |
| Theft from the person | not graded | 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 2,500 to 10,000 people.
Crime in Penyffordd 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 2 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.
No one died in a collision on Penyffordd’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 4 collisions with injuries inside Penyffordd in five years. 0 people were killed or seriously injured.
Most UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people (81%) had no road deaths in these five years, and Penyffordd is one of them.
Counting serious injuries too, a town of Penyffordd’s size at the median for UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people would see about 3 people killed or seriously injured in five years; Penyffordd had 0.
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 Penyffordd’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Penyffordd
| Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Penyffordd | 3,822 | 13.9 | 5.2 | A |
| Higher Kinnerton | 1,731 | 6 | 2.5 | A+ |
| Buckley | 13,562 | 29.7 | 8.2 | C+ |
| Leeswood | 1,948 | 21.7 | 7.4 | B |
| Broughton | 6,532 | 21.2 | 7.2 | B |
| Hawarden | 14,284 | 23.5 | 7.8 | B− |
| Hope | 4,422 | 29 | 8.9 | C+ |
| Mynydd Isa | 4,738 | 12.2 | 3.5 | A |
Penyffordd records more graded crime per resident than 2 of its 7 neighbours. Higher Kinnerton, 1.8 miles away, records 6 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Penyffordd’s 13.9.
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 Penyffordd 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 Penyffordd
Is Penyffordd safe?
Police recorded 13.9 violent and sexual offences and 5.2 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Penyffordd’s built-up area). That earns an A for safety: less crime per resident than 85% of UK towns. Among 539 UK towns of 3,000 to 5,000 people, Penyffordd is 65th from the least crime.
Is crime going up in Penyffordd?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime fell 23%, burglary, vehicle crime and damage fell 79%, shoplifting and theft rose 11% and anti-social behaviour rose 50%. Across UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, violent crime held steady.
What is the most common crime in Penyffordd?
Violence & sexual offences: 46 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came public order (12) and other theft (12), with 51 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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