Photo: Eirian Evans · CC BY-SA 2.0Pembroke Dock records more crime per resident than 97% of UK towns
Of all the kinds of crime, shoplifting is where Pembroke Dock departs most from towns its size: 8.9 per 1,000 against 1.8. Graded on crimes police recorded inside the town’s built-up area from September 2023 to August 2026, it scores D− for safety: #19 of 23 in Dyfed. In a usual year, 63.4 violent and sexual offences and 20.2 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage are logged per 1,000 inhabitants.
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
What stands out about safety in Pembroke Dock
Neighbourhood ranks
32% of Pembroke Dock’s residents live in a neighbourhood ranked in the highest-crime 20% of Wales (WIMD 2025 community safety), and 0% in the lowest-crime 30%. Neighbourhood ranks ↓
Written from the police.uk and government data on this page. Figures are crimes police recorded, not convictions.
The D− for Pembroke Dock, and how it is built
A firm grade. Built on 2,157 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Pembroke Dock 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, Pembroke Dock runs highest on shoplifting (8.9 per 1,000 against 1.8), possession of weapons (1.9 per 1,000 against 0.4) and drugs (3.9 per 1,000 against 1). Vehicle crime sits below it.
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 592 | 61.3 | 22.4 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 147 | 15.2 | 8.8 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 129 | 13.4 | 4.5 |
| Public order | not graded | 97 | 10 | 3.6 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 86 | 8.9 | 1.8 |
| Other theft | not graded | 55 | 5.7 | 3.2 |
| Drugs | not graded | 38 | 3.9 | 1 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 36 | 3.7 | 1.9 |
| Other crime | not graded | 26 | 2.7 | 1.5 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 18 | 1.9 | 0.4 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 12 | 1.2 | 2 |
| Robbery | Violent | 5 | 0.5 | 0.2 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 3 | 0.3 | 0.1 |
| Theft from the person | not graded | 3 | 0.3 | 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.
Police in Pembroke Dock identify a suspect more often than across UK towns
No suspect was identified for 40% of Pembroke Dock’s burglaries, vehicle crimes and criminal damage, against 69% across UK towns, and for 13% 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 10% 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. 562 crimes.
How Pembroke Dock compares with UK towns of 7,000 to 13,000
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Greasby Merseyside | 9,175 | 11.3 | 3.7 | 2.5 | A |
| … | ||||||
| 368 | Pembroke Dyfed | 7,963 | 50.6 | 16.4 | 11.7 | D |
| … | ||||||
| 380 | Ammanford Dyfed | 8,282 | 56.7 | 16.9 | 13 | D |
| … | ||||||
| 392 | Blackwood Gwent | 12,621 | 55.5 | 24.5 | 17.2 | D− |
| 393 | Padiham Lancashire | 10,121 | 56.6 | 25.4 | 12.4 | D− |
| 394 | Worsbrough South Yorkshire | 8,840 | 54.1 | 28.8 | 11.7 | D− |
| 395 | Pembroke Dock Dyfed | 9,659 | 63.4 | 20.2 | 15.7 | D− |
| 396 | Abertillery Gwent | 10,248 | 58.2 | 27.1 | 13.3 | D− |
| 397 | Cleckheaton West Yorkshire | 11,607 | 58.3 | 27.6 | 16.9 | D− |
| 398 | South Kirkby West Yorkshire | 8,880 | 63.8 | 22.7 | 22.3 | D− |
| … | ||||||
| 410 | Haverfordwest Dyfed | 12,088 | 91.4 | 28.6 | 32.3 | D− |
| 411 | 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 Pembroke Dock, and others in Dyfed.
Crime in Pembroke Dock 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 18 burglaries, vehicle crimes or acts of criminal damage, plus 15 shoplifting and theft reports, in the 12 months to August 2026. Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot is one recorded crime.
32% of Pembroke Dock residents live in one of Wales’s highest-crime neighbourhoods
0% of residents live in the lowest-crime 30% of Wales’s neighbourhoods, and 32% 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.
Pembroke Dock’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.
Lowest recorded crime in Pembroke Dock: Pennar, Pembroke Dock: Central and Pembroke Dock: Bufferland; highest in Pembroke Dock: Bush
| Ward | Residents | Violent | Homes & vehicles | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pembroke Dock: Pennar | 1,843 | 16.3 | 3.4 | |
| Pembroke Dock: Central | 2,167 | 42.3 | 14.2 | |
| Pembroke Dock: Bufferland | 1,672 | 54.4 | 15.2 | |
| Pembroke Dock: Market | 1,803 | 69.5 | 23.8 | |
| Pembroke Dock: Bush | 2,174 | 96 | 30.8 |
| At or near | Reports | Mostly |
|---|---|---|
| Car parks | 207 | 44% violent |
| Petrol stations | 160 | 28% anti-social behaviour |
| Supermarkets | 90 | 44% shoplifting & theft |
| Hospitals | 51 | 71% anti-social behaviour |
A ward’s rate counts crimes where they happened, not where victims live, so Pembroke Dock: Bush records 2.1× the violent crime per resident of the rest of Pembroke Dock. 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 Pembroke Dock. We show only these, never streets or homes.
Crimes per 1,000 residents a year by council ward (the part of each ward inside Pembroke Dock’s built-up area), September 2023 to August 2026. Beside it, the public places police.uk named most often.
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 -1% (towns its size +1%), homes and vehicles -4% (towns its size -1%), shoplifting and theft -1% (towns its size +2%), anti-social behaviour +12% (towns its size +0%).
One person died in collisions on Pembroke Dock’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 54 collisions with injuries inside Pembroke Dock in five years, in which one person died (1 was a pedestrian). 14 people were killed or seriously injured: 2 on foot and 1 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; Pembroke Dock’s one death is context, not a ranking.
Counting serious injuries too, Pembroke Dock had 28.7 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 Pembroke Dock’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Pembroke Dock
| Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pembroke Dock | 9,659 | 63.4 | 20.2 | D− |
| Neyland | 3,250 | 40 | 15.8 | C− |
| Pembroke | 7,963 | 50.6 | 16.4 | D |
| Milford Haven | 14,251 | 74.9 | 22.6 | D− |
| Johnston | 1,766 | 63.7 | 12.5 | D |
| Merlin's Bridge | 2,220 | 46.6 | 9.6 | C− |
| Haverfordwest | 12,088 | 91.4 | 28.6 | D− |
| Wooden | 1,300 | 22.2 | 5.8 | B |
Pembroke Dock records more graded crime per resident than 5 of its 7 neighbours; only Milford Haven and Haverfordwest record more. Neyland, 1.5 miles away, records 40 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Pembroke Dock’s 63.4.
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
- Big public sites inside the boundary. police.uk counted 51 at or near a hospital over three years. They count in Pembroke Dock’s rate, as they would for any town that has them.
- 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 Pembroke Dock 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 Pembroke Dock
Is Pembroke Dock safe?
Police recorded 63.4 violent and sexual offences and 20.2 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Pembroke Dock’s built-up area). That earns a D− for safety: less crime per resident than 3% of UK towns. Among UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, Pembroke Dock has less crime per resident than 3%.
What are the safest areas of Pembroke Dock?
By council ward, Pembroke Dock: Pennar, Pembroke Dock: Central and Pembroke Dock: Bufferland record the least violent and household crime per resident: 16.3, 42.3 and 54.4 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 a year (3-year average), against 96 in Pembroke Dock: Bush.
Is crime going up in Pembroke Dock?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime held steady, burglary, vehicle crime and damage held steady, shoplifting and theft held steady and anti-social behaviour rose 12%. Across UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, violent crime held steady.
What is the most common crime in Pembroke Dock?
Violence & sexual offences: 592 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came criminal damage & arson (129) and public order (97), with 147 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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