Photo: Stephen McKay · CC BY-SA 2.0Pembroke has more crime per resident than 92% of UK towns
That puts it at D for safety, judged on crimes police recorded inside Pembroke’s built-up area from September 2023 to August 2026: #11 of 23 in Dyfed. On top of that, violent crime was up 29% in a year. Of all the kinds of crime, possession of weapons is where Pembroke departs most from towns its size: 2.1 per 1,000 against 0.4. For every 1,000 residents, 50.6 violent and sexual offences and 16.4 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage were logged a year.
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
What stands out about safety in Pembroke
Violent crime rose over the year
In the 12 months to August 2026 police recorded 29% more violent crime per resident in Pembroke than in the year before; across UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people violent crime held steady. Burglary, vehicle crime and criminal damage rose 15% (towns its size: held steady). Trend ↓
Neighbourhood ranks
39% of Pembroke’s residents live in a neighbourhood ranked in the highest-crime 20% of Wales (WIMD 2025 community safety), and 30% 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.
What sits behind Pembroke’s D
A firm grade. Built on 1,432 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Pembroke 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 runs highest on possession of weapons (2.1 per 1,000 against 0.4), criminal damage & arson (13.1 per 1,000 against 4.5) and shoplifting (5 per 1,000 against 1.8). Vehicle crime sits below it.
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 448 | 56.3 | 22.4 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 104 | 13.1 | 4.5 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 103 | 12.9 | 8.8 |
| Public order | not graded | 44 | 5.5 | 3.6 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 40 | 5 | 1.8 |
| Other theft | not graded | 32 | 4 | 3.2 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 29 | 3.6 | 1.9 |
| Drugs | not graded | 17 | 2.1 | 1 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 17 | 2.1 | 0.4 |
| Other crime | not graded | 14 | 1.8 | 1.5 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 13 | 1.6 | 2 |
| Theft from the person | not graded | 5 | 0.6 | 0 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 4 | 0.5 | 0.1 |
| Robbery | Violent | 4 | 0.5 | 0.2 |
“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 identify a suspect more often than across UK towns
No suspect was identified for 41% of Pembroke’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” (71% here), usually because the victim doesn’t support a prosecution. About 6% 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. 326 crimes.
How crime in Pembroke has moved
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 +29% (towns its size +1%), homes and vehicles +15% (towns its size -1%), shoplifting and theft -16% (towns its size +2%), anti-social behaviour +0% (towns its size +0%).
How Pembroke compares with UK towns of 6,000 to 11,000
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Barton on Sea Hampshire | 6,763 | 9.6 | 5 | 3.1 | A |
| … | ||||||
| 256 | Cross Hands and Pen-y-groes Dyfed | 6,339 | 30.8 | 9.8 | 9.4 | C |
| … | ||||||
| 387 | Abersychan Gwent | 7,495 | 45 | 19.5 | 6.1 | D |
| 388 | Filton Gloucestershire | 10,955 | 43.4 | 22.4 | 19.8 | D |
| 389 | North Wingfield and Holmewood Derbyshire | 9,545 | 48.8 | 17.4 | 9.4 | D |
| 390 | Pembroke Dyfed | 7,963 | 50.6 | 16.4 | 11.7 | D |
| 391 | Pool and Illogan Cornwall | 8,588 | 50.4 | 16.8 | 19.7 | D |
| 392 | Clayton-le-Moors Lancashire | 7,969 | 46.6 | 20.8 | 7.9 | D |
| 393 | Acrefair and Cefn-mawr Clwyd | 6,905 | 47.9 | 19.7 | 7 | D |
| … | ||||||
| 402 | Ammanford Dyfed | 8,282 | 56.7 | 16.9 | 13 | D |
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| 416 | Pembroke Dock Dyfed | 9,659 | 63.4 | 20.2 | 15.7 | D− |
| … | ||||||
| 430 | 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, and others in Dyfed.
39% of Pembroke residents live in one of Wales’s highest-crime neighbourhoods
30% of residents live in the lowest-crime 30% of Wales’s neighbourhoods, and 39% 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’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.
Crime in Pembroke 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 10 shoplifting and theft reports, in the 12 months to August 2026. Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot is one recorded crime.
Lowest recorded crime in Pembroke: St Michael, Pembroke: St Mary North and Pembroke: Monkton and St Mary South; highest in Pembroke: Monkton and St Mary South
| Ward | Residents | Violent | Homes & vehicles | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pembroke: St Michael | 1,828 | 20.4 | 6 | |
| Pembroke: St Mary North | 2,449 | 52.3 | 12.4 | |
| Pembroke: Monkton and St Mary South | 3,686 | 53.1 | 20.3 |
| At or near | Reports | Mostly |
|---|---|---|
| Car parks | 230 | 43% violent |
| Nightclubs | 106 | 52% violent |
| Supermarkets | 95 | 76% shoplifting & theft |
A ward’s rate counts crimes where they happened, not where victims live. 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. 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’s built-up area), September 2023 to August 2026. Beside it, the public places police.uk named most often.
No one died in a collision on Pembroke’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 47 collisions with injuries inside Pembroke in five years. 18 people were killed or seriously injured: 8 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, and Pembroke is one of them.
Counting serious injuries too, Pembroke had 45.6 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’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Pembroke
| Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pembroke | 7,963 | 50.6 | 16.4 | D |
| Pembroke Dock | 9,659 | 63.4 | 20.2 | D− |
| Neyland | 3,250 | 40 | 15.8 | C− |
| 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− |
| Wooden | 1,300 | 22.2 | 5.8 | B |
| Tenby | 4,092 | 52.6 | 21.1 | D |
Pembroke records more graded crime per resident than 3 of its 7 neighbours. Neyland, 2.9 miles away, records 40 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Pembroke’s 50.6.
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 Pembroke 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
Is Pembroke safe?
Police recorded 50.6 violent and sexual offences and 16.4 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’s built-up area). That earns a D for safety: less crime per resident than 8% of UK towns. Among UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, Pembroke has less crime per resident than 7%.
What are the safest areas of Pembroke?
By council ward, Pembroke: St Michael, Pembroke: St Mary North and Pembroke: Monkton and St Mary South record the least violent and household crime per resident: 20.4, 52.3 and 53.1 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 a year (3-year average), against 53.1 in Pembroke: Monkton and St Mary South.
Is crime going up in Pembroke?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime rose 29%, burglary, vehicle crime and damage rose 15%, shoplifting and theft fell 16% and anti-social behaviour held steady. Across UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, violent crime held steady.
Is Pembroke town centre safe at night?
police.uk placed 106 crimes and reports at or near nightclubs in three years, 52% of them violent, and Pembroke: Monkton and St Mary South ward records 53.1 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 of its residents a year. Over the last two years, violent crime peaked in October and was lowest in November.
What is the most common crime in Pembroke?
Violence & sexual offences: 448 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came criminal damage & arson (104) and public order (44), with 103 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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