Photo: Stephen McKay · CC BY-SA 2.0Menai Bridge records drugs at 4.4 times the rate of a typical town its size
Recorded violence rose 23% in a year. The yearly rates were 31.5 violent and sexual offences and 11.9 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage per 1,000 residents. Its Safety Grade, C (#4 of 13 in Gwynedd), rests on crimes police recorded inside its built-up area from September 2023 to August 2026: more crime per resident than 71% of UK towns. It has more violent crime than 71% of UK towns, and more burglary, vehicle crime and damage than 67%.
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
What stands out about safety in Menai Bridge
Violent crime rose over the year
In the 12 months to August 2026 police recorded 23% more violent crime per resident in Menai Bridge 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, Menai Bridge has the 697th lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Pembrey, Kington and Dipton, higher than Gobowen, South Hetton and Silver End. Towns its size ↓
Written from the police.uk and government data on this page. Figures are crimes police recorded, not convictions.
What’s behind Menai Bridge’s grade
A fairly firm grade. Built on 397 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Menai Bridge 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, Menai Bridge runs highest on drugs (4.6 per 1,000 against 1), shoplifting (4.6 per 1,000 against 1.8) and public order (7.9 per 1,000 against 3.6).
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 96 | 31.5 | 22.4 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 38 | 12.5 | 8.8 |
| Public order | not graded | 24 | 7.9 | 3.6 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 19 | 6.2 | 4.5 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 14 | 4.6 | 1.8 |
| Drugs | not graded | 14 | 4.6 | 1 |
| Other theft | not graded | 7 | 2.3 | 3.2 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 7 | 2.3 | 0.4 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 5 | 1.6 | 1.9 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 4 | 1.3 | 2 |
| Other crime | not graded | 3 | 1 | 1.5 |
| 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.
How crime in Menai Bridge 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 +23% (towns its size +1%), homes and vehicles -28% (towns its size -1%), shoplifting and theft -34% (towns its size +2%), anti-social behaviour -12% (towns its size +0%).
How Menai Bridge’s neighbourhoods rank in Wales
0% 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.
Menai Bridge’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.
Menai Bridge is 697th of 856 UK towns of 2,000 to 4,000
| # | 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− |
| … | ||||||
| 694 | Gobowen Shropshire | 3,046 | 31.9 | 11.4 | 9 | C |
| 695 | South Hetton County Durham | 2,877 | 26.4 | 16.9 | 3.8 | C |
| 696 | Silver End Essex | 3,913 | 32.2 | 11.2 | 5.4 | C |
| 697 | Menai Bridge Gwynedd | 3,045 | 31.5 | 11.9 | 7.9 | C |
| 698 | Widdrington Station Northumberland | 2,495 | 30.3 | 13.3 | 3.5 | C |
| 699 | Dolgellau Gwynedd | 2,599 | 33.5 | 10.1 | 12.4 | C |
| 700 | Newton and Blackwell Derbyshire | 3,053 | 29.3 | 14.4 | 7.6 | 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 Menai Bridge, and others in Gwynedd.
Crime in Menai Bridge 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 9 burglaries, vehicle crimes or acts of criminal damage, plus 7 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 67% of Menai Bridge’s burglaries, vehicle crimes and criminal damage, against 69% across UK towns, and for 13% of violent and sexual offences against 19%. Most violent cases close as “unable to prosecute” (72% here), usually because the victim doesn’t support a prosecution. About 7% 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. 143 crimes.
Where in Menai Bridge police recorded crime
| At or near | Reports | Mostly |
|---|---|---|
| Petrol stations | 47 | 28% violent |
| Supermarkets | 44 | 45% shoplifting & theft |
| Car parks | 25 | 28% homes & vehicles |
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 Menai Bridge. 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 Menai Bridge’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 7 collisions with injuries inside Menai Bridge in five years. 4 people were 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 Menai Bridge is one of them.
Counting serious injuries too, a town of Menai Bridge’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; Menai Bridge had 4.
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 Menai Bridge’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Menai Bridge
| Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Menai Bridge | 3,045 | 31.5 | 11.9 | C |
| Bangor | 16,994 | 57.2 | 18.7 | D |
| Llanfair Pwllgwyngyll | 2,905 | 17.6 | 5.6 | A− |
| Y Felinheli | 2,333 | 25.3 | 7.3 | B− |
| Beaumaris | 1,120 | 32.7 | 11.9 | C |
| Tregarth | 1,252 | 12.3 | 2.1 | A+ |
| Gaerwen | 1,277 | 30.3 | 3.9 | B− |
| Bethel | 1,091 | 13.4 | 4 | A |
Menai Bridge records more graded crime per resident than 5 of its 7 neighbours; only Bangor and Beaumaris record more. Llanfair Pwllgwyngyll, 1.4 miles away, records 17.6 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Menai Bridge’s 31.5.
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 Menai Bridge 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 Menai Bridge
Is Menai Bridge safe?
Police recorded 31.5 violent and sexual offences and 11.9 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Menai Bridge’s built-up area). That earns a C for safety: less crime per resident than 29% of UK towns. Among 856 UK towns of 2,000 to 4,000 people, Menai Bridge is 697th from the least crime.
Is crime going up in Menai Bridge?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime rose 23%, burglary, vehicle crime and damage fell 28%, shoplifting and theft fell 34% and anti-social behaviour fell 12%. Across UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, violent crime held steady.
What is the most common crime in Menai Bridge?
Violence & sexual offences: 96 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came public order (24) and criminal damage & arson (19), with 38 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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