Photo: Jaggery · CC BY-SA 2.0Rhymney has more crime per resident than almost every UK town
Recorded violence held steady in a year. Of all the kinds of crime, possession of weapons is where Rhymney departs most from towns its size: 3.4 per 1,000 against 0.4. The grade is D−, built on crimes police recorded inside the town’s built-up area from September 2023 to August 2026. For every 1,000 residents, 67.7 violent and sexual offences and 39.8 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 Rhymney
Neighbourhood ranks
83% of Rhymney’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 sits behind Rhymney’s D−
A firm grade. Built on 1,609 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Rhymney 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, Rhymney runs highest on possession of weapons (3.4 per 1,000 against 0.4), vehicle crime (15.6 per 1,000 against 2) and burglary (10.4 per 1,000 against 1.9).
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 322 | 64.4 | 22.4 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 165 | 33 | 8.8 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 116 | 23.2 | 4.5 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 78 | 15.6 | 2 |
| Public order | not graded | 73 | 14.6 | 3.6 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 52 | 10.4 | 1.9 |
| Other theft | not graded | 44 | 8.8 | 3.2 |
| Drugs | not graded | 26 | 5.2 | 1 |
| Other crime | not graded | 20 | 4 | 1.5 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 17 | 3.4 | 0.4 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 7 | 1.4 | 1.8 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 6 | 1.2 | 0.1 |
| Robbery | Violent | 3 | 0.6 | 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.
83% of Rhymney residents live in one of Wales’s highest-crime neighbourhoods
0% of residents live in the lowest-crime 30% of Wales’s neighbourhoods, and 83% 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.
Rhymney’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.
How Rhymney compares with UK towns of 3,000 to 7,000
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bailrigg Lancashire | 4,788 | 4.7 | 2.5 | 7.9 | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 213 | Pen-pedair-heol Gwent | 3,787 | 19.1 | 6.2 | 1.7 | B+ |
| … | ||||||
| 245 | Undy and Magor Gwent | 5,742 | 18.6 | 8 | 4.1 | B+ |
| … | ||||||
| 421 | Oakdale Gwent | 6,126 | 24.1 | 9 | 3.7 | B− |
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| 622 | Nelson Gwent | 4,235 | 28 | 16.3 | 6.7 | C |
| … | ||||||
| 816 | Denaby Main South Yorkshire | 4,310 | 67.7 | 32 | 19.6 | D− |
| 817 | Highbridge Somerset | 5,366 | 82.7 | 18 | 27.7 | D− |
| 818 | Horden County Durham | 6,805 | 62.9 | 39 | 42.4 | D− |
| 819 | Rhymney Gwent | 4,998 | 67.7 | 39.8 | 13.2 | D− |
| 820 | Jaywick Essex | 5,080 | 87.5 | 28.9 | 11 | D− |
| 821 | Stainforth South Yorkshire | 5,999 | 72.5 | 49.7 | 14.4 | D− |
| 822 | Broomfield Essex | 3,491 | 95.6 | 26.8 | 13.1 | D− |
| 823 | Eastchurch Kent | 3,381 | 132 | 13.9 | 3.5 | 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 Rhymney, and others in Gwent.
Crime in Rhymney 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 49 burglaries, vehicle crimes or acts of criminal damage, plus 11 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 Rhymney identify a suspect more often than across UK towns
No suspect was identified for 61% of Rhymney’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” (65% here), usually because the victim doesn’t support a prosecution. About 5% of violent and 8% 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. 465 crimes.
How crime in Rhymney 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 +4% (towns its size +1%), homes and vehicles +8% (towns its size -1%), shoplifting and theft -31% (towns its size +2%), anti-social behaviour +1% (towns its size +0%).
No one died in a collision on Rhymney’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 13 collisions with injuries inside Rhymney in five years. 6 people were killed or seriously injured: 1 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 Rhymney is one of them.
Counting serious injuries too, a town of Rhymney’s size at the median for UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people would see about 4 people killed or seriously injured in five years; Rhymney had 6.
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 Rhymney’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Rhymney
| Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rhymney | 4,998 | 67.7 | 39.8 | D− |
| Pontlottyn | 1,832 | 48.2 | 37.8 | D− |
| Fochriw | 1,148 | 41.8 | 19.2 | D |
| Abertysswg | 1,424 | 29 | 12.9 | C |
| Tredegar | 14,534 | 60.9 | 32 | D− |
| New Tredegar | 3,280 | 61.5 | 32.7 | D− |
| Ebbw Vale | 19,635 | 52.9 | 28 | D− |
| Merthyr Tydfil | 39,542 | 45.6 | 19.1 | D |
Rhymney records more graded crime per resident than every neighbour in the table. Pontlottyn, 1.1 miles away, records 48.2 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Rhymney’s 67.7.
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 Rhymney 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 Rhymney
Is Rhymney safe?
Police recorded 67.7 violent and sexual offences and 39.8 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Rhymney’s built-up area). That earns a D− for safety: behind almost every UK town. Among UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, Rhymney has less crime per resident than 1%.
Is crime going up in Rhymney?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime held steady, burglary, vehicle crime and damage rose 8%, shoplifting and theft fell 31% 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 Rhymney?
Violence & sexual offences: 322 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came criminal damage & arson (116) and vehicle crime (78), with 165 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Rhymney compare with Merthyr Tydfil?
Merthyr Tydfil records 45.6 violent and sexual offences and 19.1 crimes against homes and vehicles per 1,000 residents a year, against Rhymney’s 67.7 and 39.8, 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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