Photo: Roger Cornfoot · CC BY-SA 2.0Abersychan has more crime per resident than nine in ten UK towns
Violence recorded locally dropped 17% in a year. Even so, from September 2023 to August 2026, crimes police recorded inside Abersychan’s built-up area put it at D for safety: #22 of 38 in Gwent. With 84 cases in the 12 months to August 2026, public order reaches 11.2 per 1,000 residents locally, well above the typical 3.6. Annual rates stand at 45.0 violent and sexual offences and 19.5 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage for every thousand residents.
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
What stands out about safety in Abersychan
Violent crime fell over the year
In the 12 months to August 2026 police recorded 17% less violent crime per resident in Abersychan 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 held steady (towns its size: held steady). Trend ↓
More crime than many places its size
Of 546 UK towns of 5,000 to 10,000 people, Abersychan has the 490th lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Pool and Illogan, Brigg and Purfleet-on-Thames, higher than Brecon, Abertridwr and Senghenydd and Rishton. Towns its size ↓
Neighbourhood ranks
65% of Abersychan’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.
Inside Abersychan’s D for safety
A firm grade. Built on 1,450 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Abersychan against every UK town of 1,000 or more.
Per resident, against all UK towns; beside it, how it compares with towns its size.
65% of Abersychan residents live in one of Wales’s highest-crime neighbourhoods
0% of residents live in the lowest-crime 30% of Wales’s neighbourhoods, and 65% 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.
Abersychan’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.
What police recorded in the last 12 months
Against the typical town its size, Abersychan runs highest on public order (11.2 per 1,000 against 3.6), criminal damage & arson (12.4 per 1,000 against 4.5) and other crime (3.1 per 1,000 against 1.5). Other theft sits below it.
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 282 | 37.6 | 22.4 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 138 | 18.4 | 8.8 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 93 | 12.4 | 4.5 |
| Public order | not graded | 84 | 11.2 | 3.6 |
| Other crime | not graded | 23 | 3.1 | 1.5 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 22 | 2.9 | 1.8 |
| Other theft | not graded | 21 | 2.8 | 3.2 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 21 | 2.8 | 1.9 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 20 | 2.7 | 2 |
| Drugs | not graded | 13 | 1.7 | 1 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 5 | 0.7 | 0.4 |
| Robbery | Violent | 3 | 0.4 | 0.2 |
| Theft from the person | not graded | 2 | 0.3 | 0 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 0 | 0 | 0.1 |
“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.
Among 546 towns its size, Abersychan ranks 490th for the least graded crime
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Merley Dorset | 5,489 | 8.4 | 2.8 | 3.8 | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 110 | Undy and Magor Gwent | 5,742 | 18.6 | 8 | 4.1 | B+ |
| … | ||||||
| 127 | Rogerstone Gwent | 7,546 | 17.5 | 10.1 | 9.6 | B |
| … | ||||||
| 218 | Oakdale Gwent | 6,126 | 24.1 | 9 | 3.7 | B− |
| … | ||||||
| 384 | Pontllanfraith Gwent | 9,363 | 31.7 | 15.2 | 7.4 | C |
| … | ||||||
| 487 | Brecon Powys | 8,257 | 47.9 | 14.9 | 10.2 | D |
| 488 | Abertridwr and Senghenydd Gwent | 5,639 | 45.1 | 18 | 3.8 | D |
| 489 | Rishton Lancashire | 6,653 | 43.9 | 19.5 | 6.2 | D |
| 490 | Abersychan Gwent | 7,495 | 45 | 19.5 | 6.1 | D |
| 491 | Llangefni Gwynedd | 5,264 | 53.5 | 12 | 15.4 | D |
| 492 | North Wingfield and Holmewood Derbyshire | 9,545 | 48.8 | 17.4 | 9.4 | D |
| 493 | Pembroke Dyfed | 7,963 | 50.6 | 16.4 | 11.7 | D |
| … | ||||||
| 546 | 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 Abersychan, and others in Gwent.
How crime in Abersychan 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 -17% (towns its size +1%), homes and vehicles -2% (towns its size -1%), shoplifting and theft -6% (towns its size +2%), anti-social behaviour -5% (towns its size +0%).
Crime in Abersychan 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 6 shoplifting and theft reports, in the 12 months to August 2026. Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot is one recorded crime.
Police name a suspect about as often as across UK towns
No suspect was identified for 68% of Abersychan’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” (73% here), usually because the victim doesn’t support a prosecution. About 5% of violent and 2% 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. 541 crimes.
No one died in a collision on Abersychan’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 20 collisions with injuries inside Abersychan in five years. 8 people were killed or seriously injured: 3 on foot and 0 on a bicycle.
Most UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people (81%) had no road deaths in these five years, and Abersychan is one of them.
Counting serious injuries too, a town of Abersychan’s size at the median for UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people would see about 6 people killed or seriously injured in five years; Abersychan had 8.
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 Abersychan’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Abersychan
| Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abersychan | 7,495 | 45 | 19.5 | D |
| Pontypool | 29,070 | 47 | 18.7 | D |
| Blaenavon | 5,637 | 58.2 | 23.5 | D− |
| Abertillery | 10,248 | 58.2 | 27.1 | D− |
| Penperlleni | 1,396 | 18.2 | 5 | A− |
| Llanhilleth | 2,450 | 63.8 | 23.4 | D− |
| Trinant | 1,504 | 46.1 | 13.7 | D |
| Swffryd | 1,721 | 44.8 | 19.4 | D |
Abersychan records more graded crime per resident than 3 of its 7 neighbours. Penperlleni, 3.6 miles away, records 18.2 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Abersychan’s 45.
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 Abersychan 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 Abersychan
Is Abersychan safe?
Police recorded 45 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 Abersychan’s built-up area). That earns a D for safety: less crime per resident than 9% of UK towns. Among 546 UK towns of 5,000 to 10,000 people, Abersychan is 490th from the least crime.
Is crime going up in Abersychan?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime fell 17%, burglary, vehicle crime and damage held steady, shoplifting and theft fell 6% and anti-social behaviour held steady. Across UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, violent crime held steady.
What is the most common crime in Abersychan?
Violence & sexual offences: 282 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came criminal damage & arson (93) and public order (84), with 138 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Abersychan compare with Cwmbrân?
Cwmbrân records 50.5 violent and sexual offences and 19.9 crimes against homes and vehicles per 1,000 residents a year, against Abersychan’s 45 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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