Photo: Tiia Monto · CC BY-SA 3.0More crimes per resident are recorded in Llanhilleth than in 98% of UK towns
Police recorded 57 cases of public order in Llanhilleth in the 12 months to August 2026, a rate of 23.3 per 1,000 against a typical 2.4. Recorded violence fell 16% in a year. Still, on crimes police recorded inside the town’s built-up area from September 2023 to August 2026, it grades D− for safety. Annual rates stand at 63.8 violent and sexual offences and 23.4 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 Llanhilleth
Violent crime fell over the year
In the 12 months to August 2026 police recorded 16% less violent crime per resident in Llanhilleth than in the year before; across UK towns of 1,000 to 2,500 people violent crime held steady. Burglary, vehicle crime and criminal damage rose 18% (towns its size: held steady). Trend ↓
Neighbourhood ranks
48% of Llanhilleth’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.
What’s behind Llanhilleth’s grade
A firm grade. Built on 641 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Llanhilleth 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, Llanhilleth runs highest on public order (23.3 per 1,000 against 2.4), vehicle crime (7.3 per 1,000 against 1.5) and criminal damage & arson (13.9 per 1,000 against 3.2).
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 144 | 58.8 | 16.6 |
| Public order | not graded | 57 | 23.3 | 2.4 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 50 | 20.4 | 5.3 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 34 | 13.9 | 3.2 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 18 | 7.3 | 1.5 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 15 | 6.1 | 1.6 |
| Other theft | not graded | 12 | 4.9 | 2.5 |
| Other crime | not graded | 8 | 3.3 | 1.1 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 6 | 2.4 | 0 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 2 | 0.8 | 0 |
| Drugs | not graded | 1 | 0.4 | 0.6 |
| Robbery | Violent | 1 | 0.4 | 0 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 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 1,000 to 2,500 people.
How Llanhilleth compares with UK towns of 2,000 to 3,000
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Richhill Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon | 2,738 | 6.2 | 2.8 | 3 | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 66 | Marshfield Gwent | 2,386 | 11.7 | 5.2 | 3.1 | A |
| … | ||||||
| 250 | Usk Gwent | 2,310 | 18.5 | 8.1 | 11.3 | B+ |
| … | ||||||
| 272 | Gilwern Gwent | 2,184 | 20.2 | 7.9 | 4.3 | B |
| … | ||||||
| 280 | Underwood Gwent | 2,134 | 20 | 8.4 | 2.8 | B |
| … | ||||||
| 539 | Ebbsfleet Valley Kent | 2,989 | 50.5 | 27.3 | 25.4 | D− |
| 540 | Maerdy Mid Glamorgan | 2,843 | 62.4 | 15.6 | 8.8 | D− |
| 541 | Bowness-on-Windermere Cumbria | 2,290 | 69.6 | 16 | 14.7 | D− |
| 542 | Llanhilleth Gwent | 2,450 | 63.8 | 23.4 | 6.3 | D− |
| 543 | Williton Somerset | 2,433 | 69.9 | 18.4 | 9.5 | D− |
| 544 | Winwick Cheshire | 2,062 | 79.2 | 13.1 | 5.5 | D− |
| 545 | Garden City Clwyd | 2,427 | 66.3 | 26.8 | 13.5 | D− |
| … | ||||||
| 550 | Avonmouth Bristol | 2,643 | 82.9 | 54.6 | 60.4 | 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 Llanhilleth, and others in Gwent.
How crime in Llanhilleth has moved
“Towns its size” pools all UK towns of 1,000 to 2,500 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 -16% (towns its size +3%), homes and vehicles +18% (towns its size +0%), anti-social behaviour -11% (towns its size -1%).
Crime in Llanhilleth 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 27 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 in Llanhilleth identify a suspect less often than across UK towns
No suspect was identified for 75% of Llanhilleth’s burglaries, vehicle crimes and criminal damage, against 69% across UK towns, and for 14% 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 4% 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. 187 crimes.
No one died in a collision on Llanhilleth’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 7 collisions with injuries inside Llanhilleth in five years. 2 people were killed or seriously injured: 0 on foot and 0 on a bicycle.
Most UK towns of 1,000 to 2,500 people (94%) had no road deaths in these five years, and Llanhilleth is one of them.
Counting serious injuries too, a town of Llanhilleth’s size at the median for UK towns of 1,000 to 2,500 people would see about 2 people killed or seriously injured in five years; Llanhilleth had 2.
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 Llanhilleth’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Llanhilleth
Llanhilleth records more graded crime per resident than every neighbour in the table. Trinant, 0.6 miles away, records 46.1 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Llanhilleth’s 63.8.
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 Llanhilleth 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 Llanhilleth
Is Llanhilleth safe?
Police recorded 63.8 violent and sexual offences and 23.4 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Llanhilleth’s built-up area). That earns a D− for safety: less crime per resident than 2% of UK towns. Among UK towns of 1,000 to 2,500 people, Llanhilleth has less crime per resident than 1%.
Is crime going up in Llanhilleth?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime fell 16%, burglary, vehicle crime and damage rose 18%, shoplifting and theft fell 7% and anti-social behaviour fell 11%. Across UK towns of 1,000 to 2,500 people, violent crime held steady.
What is the most common crime in Llanhilleth?
Violence & sexual offences: 144 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came public order (57) and criminal damage & arson (34), with 50 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Llanhilleth compare with Pontypool?
Pontypool records 47 violent and sexual offences and 18.7 crimes against homes and vehicles per 1,000 residents a year, against Llanhilleth’s 63.8 and 23.4, 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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