Photo: Roger Cornfoot · CC BY-SA 2.0Amlwch records drugs at 3.6 times the rate of a typical town its size
Its letter overall is C (#3 of 13 in Gwynedd): more crime per resident than 68% of UK towns, from crimes police recorded inside its built-up area through September 2023 to August 2026. Violence recorded locally climbed 31% in a year. Burglary, vehicle crime and damage is lower than in 66% of UK towns; violent crime, lower than in only 24%. The local count comes to 34.3 violent and sexual offences and 7.5 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage per 1,000 people each year.
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
What stands out about safety in Amlwch
Violent crime rose over the year
In the 12 months to August 2026 police recorded 31% more violent crime per resident in Amlwch than in the year before; across UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people violent crime held steady. Trend ↓
More crime than many places its size
Of 856 UK towns of 2,000 to 4,000 people, Amlwch has the 674th lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Maesycwmmer, Hanslope and Ash (Dover), higher than Llandybie, Crowle and Westward Ho!. Towns its size ↓
Written from the police.uk and government data on this page. Figures are crimes police recorded, not convictions.
What’s behind Amlwch’s grade
A fairly firm grade. Built on 395 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Amlwch against every UK town of 1,000 or more.
Per resident, against all UK towns; beside it, how it compares with towns its size.
How crime in Amlwch 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 +31% (towns its size +1%), homes and vehicles +14% (towns its size -1%), anti-social behaviour +85% (towns its size +0%).
What police recorded in the last 12 months
Against the typical town its size, Amlwch runs highest on drugs (3.8 per 1,000 against 1), anti-social behaviour (27.6 per 1,000 against 8.8) and violence & sexual offences (41.3 per 1,000 against 22.4).
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 130 | 41.3 | 22.4 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 87 | 27.6 | 8.8 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 19 | 6 | 4.5 |
| Public order | not graded | 19 | 6 | 3.6 |
| Drugs | not graded | 12 | 3.8 | 1 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 5 | 1.6 | 1.9 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 4 | 1.3 | 1.8 |
| Other theft | not graded | 4 | 1.3 | 3.2 |
| Other crime | not graded | 2 | 0.6 | 1.5 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 1 | 0.3 | 2 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 1 | 0.3 | 0.4 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 0 | 0 | 0.1 |
| Robbery | Violent | 0 | 0 | 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.
Police in Amlwch identify a suspect more often than across UK towns
No suspect was identified for 50% of Amlwch’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” (63% here), usually because the victim doesn’t support a prosecution. About 14% of violent and 4% 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. 117 crimes.
How Amlwch’s neighbourhoods rank in Wales
23% of residents live in the lowest-crime 30% of Wales’s neighbourhoods, and 0% 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.
Amlwch’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.
674th of 856: Amlwch among towns its size
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Richhill Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon | 2,738 | 6.2 | 2.8 | 3 | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 174 | Benllech Gwynedd | 2,072 | 15 | 5.2 | 4.7 | A− |
| … | ||||||
| 250 | Llanfair Pwllgwyngyll Gwynedd | 2,905 | 17.6 | 5.6 | 5.1 | A− |
| … | ||||||
| 371 | Valley Gwynedd | 2,003 | 21.1 | 6 | 10.7 | B |
| … | ||||||
| 505 | Tywyn Gwynedd | 3,134 | 26 | 5.9 | 7.1 | B− |
| … | ||||||
| 671 | Llandybie Dyfed | 2,563 | 34.1 | 7.5 | 5.9 | C |
| 672 | Crowle Lincolnshire | 3,969 | 30.2 | 11.4 | 7 | C |
| 673 | Westward Ho! Devon | 3,468 | 33.2 | 8.6 | 6.8 | C |
| 674 | Amlwch Gwynedd | 3,148 | 34.3 | 7.5 | 4.2 | C |
| 675 | Llanfairfechan Clwyd | 3,547 | 33.6 | 8.3 | 5.2 | C |
| 676 | Fishbourne West Sussex | 3,368 | 28.8 | 13.1 | 13.5 | C |
| 677 | Mancetter and Witherley Warwickshire | 2,689 | 29.3 | 12.6 | 3.2 | C |
| … | ||||||
| 856 | 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 Amlwch, and others in Gwynedd.
Crime in Amlwch 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 8 burglaries, vehicle crimes or acts of criminal damage, plus 3 shoplifting and theft reports, in the 12 months to August 2026. Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot is one recorded crime.
Where in Amlwch police recorded crime
| At or near | Reports | Mostly |
|---|---|---|
| Car parks | 90 | 39% violent |
| Sports and recreation grounds | 30 | 60% violent |
| Petrol stations | 26 | 54% violent |
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 Amlwch. We show only these, never streets or homes.
Beside it, the public places police.uk named most often.
No one died in a collision on Amlwch’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 2 collisions with injuries inside Amlwch in five years. 1 person was killed or seriously injured: 0 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 Amlwch is one of them.
Counting serious injuries too, a town of Amlwch’s size at the median for UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people would see about 3 people killed or seriously injured in five years; Amlwch had 1.
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 Amlwch’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Amlwch
| Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amlwch | 3,148 | 34.3 | 7.5 | C |
| Cemaes | 1,023 | 29 | 5.3 | B− |
| Llanerchymedd | 1,155 | 21.9 | 3.5 | B+ |
| Benllech | 2,072 | 15 | 5.2 | A− |
| Bodedern | 1,193 | 28.2 | 6.2 | B− |
| Llangefni | 5,264 | 53.5 | 12 | D |
Amlwch records more graded crime per resident than 4 of its 5 neighbours; only Llangefni records more. Cemaes, 4.5 miles away, records 29 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Amlwch’s 34.3.
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 Amlwch 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 Amlwch
Is Amlwch safe?
Police recorded 34.3 violent and sexual offences and 7.5 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Amlwch’s built-up area). That earns a C for safety: less crime per resident than 32% of UK towns. Among 856 UK towns of 2,000 to 4,000 people, Amlwch is 674th from the least crime.
Is crime going up in Amlwch?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime rose 31%, burglary, vehicle crime and damage rose 14%, shoplifting and theft fell 58% and anti-social behaviour rose 85%. Across UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, violent crime held steady.
What is the most common crime in Amlwch?
Violence & sexual offences: 130 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came criminal damage & arson (19) and public order (19), with 87 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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