Burry Port Harbour Light · Photo: Vouliagmeni · Public domainRecorded crime per resident is higher in Burry Port than in 96% of UK towns
Scored on crimes police recorded inside Burry Port’s built-up area across September 2023 to August 2026, the town lands on D− for safety: #16 of 23 in Dyfed. Violent crime barely moved in a year. With 16 cases in the 12 months to August 2026, drugs reaches 3.2 per 1,000 residents in the town, well above the typical 1. Year on year, 59.8 violent and sexual offences and 19.5 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.
The grade: D− for Burry Port
A fairly firm grade. Built on 1,050 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Burry Port 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, Burry Port runs highest on drugs (3.2 per 1,000 against 1), violence & sexual offences (61 per 1,000 against 22.4) and criminal damage & arson (11.1 per 1,000 against 4.5).
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 303 | 61 | 22.4 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 75 | 15.1 | 8.8 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 55 | 11.1 | 4.5 |
| Public order | not graded | 42 | 8.5 | 3.6 |
| Other theft | not graded | 21 | 4.2 | 3.2 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 19 | 3.8 | 1.9 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 16 | 3.2 | 1.8 |
| Drugs | not graded | 16 | 3.2 | 1 |
| Other crime | not graded | 16 | 3.2 | 1.5 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 7 | 1.4 | 2 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 7 | 1.4 | 0.1 |
| Robbery | Violent | 3 | 0.6 | 0.2 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 0 | 0 | 0.4 |
| 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.
How Burry Port compares with UK towns of 3,000 to 7,000
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bailrigg Lancashire | 4,788 | 4.7 | 2.5 | 7.9 | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 211 | Llangennech Dyfed | 4,278 | 20.1 | 5.1 | 2.2 | B+ |
| … | ||||||
| 563 | Cross Hands and Pen-y-groes Dyfed | 6,339 | 30.8 | 9.8 | 9.4 | C |
| … | ||||||
| 699 | Tumble Dyfed | 4,040 | 40.5 | 11.5 | 2.8 | C− |
| … | ||||||
| 716 | Glanaman Dyfed | 3,866 | 39.4 | 14.7 | 6.3 | C− |
| … | ||||||
| 791 | Shotton Clwyd | 6,500 | 57.9 | 17.9 | 31.8 | D |
| 792 | Chapel St Leonards Lincolnshire | 3,435 | 58.6 | 18 | 15.6 | D− |
| 793 | Fitzwilliam and Kinsley West Yorkshire | 4,993 | 59.9 | 16.7 | 8.4 | D− |
| 794 | Burry Port Dyfed | 4,966 | 59.8 | 19.5 | 12 | D− |
| 795 | Grimethorpe South Yorkshire | 5,065 | 47.8 | 31.7 | 10 | D− |
| 796 | Greasbrough South Yorkshire | 3,859 | 60.1 | 21.5 | 13.2 | D− |
| 797 | Blaenavon Gwent | 5,637 | 58.2 | 23.5 | 5.3 | D− |
| … | ||||||
| 823 | 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 Burry Port, and others in Dyfed.
Crime in Burry Port 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.
How Burry Port’s neighbourhoods rank in Wales
40% of residents live in the lowest-crime 30% of Wales’s neighbourhoods, and 17% 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.
Burry Port’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.
Police in Burry Port identify a suspect more often than across UK towns
No suspect was identified for 63% of Burry Port’s burglaries, vehicle crimes and criminal damage, against 69% across UK towns, and for 11% of violent and sexual offences against 19%. Most violent cases close as “unable to prosecute” (62% here), usually because the victim doesn’t support a prosecution. About 8% of violent and 3% 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. 264 crimes.
Violent crime held steady over the year
Dyfed Powys Police published four months short or not at all (Jan 2024, Feb 2024, Mar 2024 and Apr 2024), so the line breaks there and those months are left out of the rates. “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 +5% (towns its size +1%), homes and vehicles -24% (towns its size -1%), shoplifting and theft -38% (towns its size +2%), anti-social behaviour -10% (towns its size +0%).
No one died in a collision on Burry Port’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 27 collisions with injuries inside Burry Port in five years. 12 people were killed or seriously injured: 3 on foot and 2 on a bicycle.
Most UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people (81%) had no road deaths in these five years, and Burry Port is one of them.
Counting serious injuries too, Burry Port had 48.5 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 Burry Port’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Burry Port
Burry Port records more graded crime per resident than 6 of its 7 neighbours; only Llanelli records more. Pembrey, 1.1 miles away, records 36.4 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Burry Port’s 59.8.
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
- Some months are short. Dyfed Powys Police published January 2024, February 2024, March 2024 and April 2024 only in part or not at all. Those months are left out of the rates, which average the months that were published in full; the raw counts include what was published.
- 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 Burry Port 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 Burry Port
Is Burry Port safe?
Police recorded 59.8 violent and sexual offences and 19.5 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Burry Port’s built-up area). That earns a D− for safety: less crime per resident than 4% of UK towns. Among UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, Burry Port has less crime per resident than 3%.
Is crime going up in Burry Port?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime held steady, burglary, vehicle crime and damage fell 24%, shoplifting and theft fell 38% and anti-social behaviour fell 10%. Across UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, violent crime held steady.
What is the most common crime in Burry Port?
Violence & sexual offences: 303 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came criminal damage & arson (55) and public order (42), with 75 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Burry Port compare with Llanelli?
Llanelli records 60.2 violent and sexual offences and 21.3 crimes against homes and vehicles per 1,000 residents a year, against Burry Port’s 59.8 and 19.5, 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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