Crime per resident in Haverfordwest runs higher than in almost every UK town

Per resident, against all UK towns; beside it, how it compares with towns its size.

Against the typical town its size, Haverfordwest runs highest on possession of weapons (3.1 per 1,000 against 0.7), drugs (7.4 per 1,000 against 1.9) and shoplifting (23.7 per 1,000 against 6.1). Vehicle crime sits below it.

“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.

No suspect was identified for 49% of Haverfordwest’s burglaries, vehicle crimes and criminal damage, against 69% across UK towns, and for 10% 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 11% 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. 930 crimes.

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 Haverfordwest, and others in Dyfed.

And about 29 burglaries, vehicle crimes or acts of criminal damage, plus 35 shoplifting and theft reports, in the 12 months to August 2026. Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot is one recorded crime.

5% of residents live in the lowest-crime 30% of Wales’s neighbourhoods, and 31% 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.

Haverfordwest’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.

A ward’s rate counts crimes where they happened, not where victims live, so Haverfordwest: Castle records 2.3× the violent crime per resident of the rest of Haverfordwest. 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 Haverfordwest. We show only these, never streets or homes.

Crimes per 1,000 residents a year by council ward (the part of each ward inside Haverfordwest’s built-up area), September 2023 to August 2026. Beside it, the public places police.uk named most often.

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 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 -7% (towns its size +1%), homes and vehicles +3% (towns its size -2%), shoplifting and theft +23% (towns its size +1%), anti-social behaviour +27% (towns its size -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 Haverfordwest’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.

Haverfordwest records more graded crime per resident than every neighbour in the table. Merlin's Bridge, 1 miles away, records 46.6 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Haverfordwest’s 91.4.

Per 1,000 residents a year, the same three years. Tap a town for its safety page.