Photo: Jo and Steve Turner · CC BY-SA 2.0More crime per resident is recorded in Caerleon than in 86% of UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people
Annual rates stand at 36.7 violent and sexual offences and 16.7 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage for every thousand residents. Counting crimes police recorded inside Caerleon’s built-up area from September 2023 to August 2026, it grades C− for safety: #16 of 38 in Gwent. Police recorded 82 cases of criminal damage & arson in the town in the 12 months to August 2026, a rate of 11.2 per 1,000 against a typical 4.5. Violent crime was down 14% in a year.
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
What stands out about safety in Caerleon
Violent crime fell over the year
In the 12 months to August 2026 police recorded 14% less violent crime per resident in Caerleon 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, Caerleon has the 440th lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Throckley, Shepton Mallet and Thurmaston, higher than Harworth and Bircotes, Abercynon and Edenbridge. Towns its size ↓
Many neighbourhoods rank low for crime in Wales
The Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025 ranks every neighbourhood in Wales on community safety. 16% of Caerleon’s residents live in one of the lowest-crime 10%, and 14% in one of the highest-crime 20%. Neighbourhood ranks ↓
Written from the police.uk and government data on this page. Figures are crimes police recorded, not convictions.
What’s behind Caerleon’s grade
A firm grade. Built on 1,175 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Caerleon 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, Caerleon runs highest on criminal damage & arson (11.2 per 1,000 against 4.5), public order (7.9 per 1,000 against 3.6) and burglary (3.3 per 1,000 against 1.9).
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 252 | 34.4 | 22.4 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 89 | 12.1 | 8.8 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 82 | 11.2 | 4.5 |
| Public order | not graded | 58 | 7.9 | 3.6 |
| Other theft | not graded | 35 | 4.8 | 3.2 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 24 | 3.3 | 1.9 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 19 | 2.6 | 2 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 17 | 2.3 | 1.8 |
| Other crime | not graded | 13 | 1.8 | 1.5 |
| Drugs | not graded | 9 | 1.2 | 1 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 3 | 0.4 | 0.1 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 1 | 0.1 | 0.4 |
| Robbery | Violent | 1 | 0.1 | 0.2 |
| 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.
Caerleon places 440th of 546 towns its size, the least crime first
| # | 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 |
| … | ||||||
| 437 | Harworth and Bircotes Nottinghamshire | 8,885 | 31.9 | 21.2 | 13.2 | C− |
| 438 | Abercynon Mid Glamorgan | 6,376 | 39.9 | 13.5 | 5.3 | C− |
| 439 | Edenbridge Kent | 7,903 | 37 | 16.4 | 13.9 | C− |
| 440 | Caerleon Gwent | 7,329 | 36.7 | 16.7 | 6 | C− |
| 441 | Cottam Lancashire | 5,507 | 37.4 | 16.1 | 8.6 | C− |
| 442 | Clowne Derbyshire | 7,759 | 40.1 | 13.6 | 11.1 | C− |
| 443 | Pershore Worcestershire | 8,207 | 35.5 | 18.2 | 26.4 | C− |
| … | ||||||
| 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 Caerleon, and others in Gwent.
How crime in Caerleon 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 -14% (towns its size +1%), homes and vehicles +0% (towns its size -1%), shoplifting and theft +62% (towns its size +2%), anti-social behaviour -21% (towns its size +0%).
Crime in Caerleon 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 17 burglaries, vehicle crimes or acts of criminal damage, plus 8 shoplifting and theft reports, in the 12 months to August 2026. Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot is one recorded crime.
1 in 6 Caerleon residents lives in one of Wales’s lowest-crime neighbourhoods
38% of residents live in the lowest-crime 30% of Wales’s neighbourhoods, and 14% 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.
Caerleon’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 name a suspect about as often as across UK towns
No suspect was identified for 65% of Caerleon’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” (70% here), usually because the victim doesn’t support a prosecution. About 4% 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. 375 crimes.
No one died in a collision on Caerleon’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 10 collisions with injuries inside Caerleon in five years. 5 people were killed or seriously injured: 2 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 Caerleon is one of them.
Counting serious injuries too, a town of Caerleon’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; Caerleon had 5.
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 Caerleon’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Caerleon
Caerleon records more graded crime per resident than 4 of its 7 neighbours. Ponthir, 0.9 miles away, records 19.6 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Caerleon’s 36.7.
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 Caerleon 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 Caerleon
Is Caerleon safe?
Police recorded 36.7 violent and sexual offences and 16.7 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Caerleon’s built-up area). That earns a C− for safety: less crime per resident than 17% of UK towns. Among 546 UK towns of 5,000 to 10,000 people, Caerleon is 440th from the least crime. 16% of residents live in neighbourhoods in Wales’s lowest-crime 10%.
Is crime going up in Caerleon?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime fell 14%, burglary, vehicle crime and damage held steady, shoplifting and theft rose 62% and anti-social behaviour fell 21%. Across UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, violent crime held steady.
What is the most common crime in Caerleon?
Violence & sexual offences: 252 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came criminal damage & arson (82) and public order (58), with 89 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Caerleon compare with Newport?
Newport records 55.8 violent and sexual offences and 25.6 crimes against homes and vehicles per 1,000 residents a year, against Caerleon’s 36.7 and 16.7, 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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