Ysgol Gyfun Bryn Celynnog · Photo: FruitMonkey · CC BY-SA 4.0Beddau records shoplifting at 3 times the rate of a typical town its size
It has less burglary, vehicle crime and damage than 56% of UK towns, but less violent crime than only 30%. Per 1,000 residents a year, 31.2 violent and sexual offences and 8.7 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage were recorded. Across all the graded crimes, Beddau lands on C+ (#9 of 32 in Mid Glamorgan): more crime per resident than 65% of UK towns, on crimes police recorded inside its built-up area from September 2023 to August 2026. Recorded violence held steady 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 Beddau
About the middle for a town its size
Of 546 UK towns of 5,000 to 10,000 people, Beddau has the 318th lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Weston, Barrowford and Cheddar, higher than Anstey, Dursley and Chipping Norton. 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. 15% of Beddau’s residents live in one of the lowest-crime 10%, and 32% 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.
The grade: C+ for Beddau
A fairly firm grade. Built on 880 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Beddau 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, Beddau runs highest on shoplifting (5.4 per 1,000 against 1.8), public order (7.7 per 1,000 against 3.6) and other crime (3.1 per 1,000 against 1.5).
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 228 | 31 | 22.4 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 74 | 10.1 | 8.8 |
| Public order | not graded | 57 | 7.7 | 3.6 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 40 | 5.4 | 1.8 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 40 | 5.4 | 4.5 |
| Other theft | not graded | 24 | 3.3 | 3.2 |
| Other crime | not graded | 23 | 3.1 | 1.5 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 19 | 2.6 | 2 |
| Drugs | not graded | 10 | 1.4 | 1 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 5 | 0.7 | 1.9 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 5 | 0.7 | 0.4 |
| Robbery | Violent | 5 | 0.7 | 0.2 |
| Theft from the person | not graded | 4 | 0.5 | 0 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 0 | 0 | 0.1 |
“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.
1 in 7 Beddau residents lives in one of Wales’s lowest-crime neighbourhoods
37% of residents live in the lowest-crime 30% of Wales’s neighbourhoods, and 32% 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.
Beddau’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.
Crime in Beddau 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 9 shoplifting and theft reports, in the 12 months to August 2026. Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot is one recorded crime.
How crime in Beddau 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 -12% (towns its size -1%), shoplifting and theft +113% (towns its size +2%), anti-social behaviour +30% (towns its size +0%).
Of 546 towns its size, Beddau is 318th from the least graded crime
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Merley Dorset | 5,489 | 8.4 | 2.8 | 3.8 | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 86 | Pontyclun Mid Glamorgan | 5,801 | 17.2 | 7.5 | 6.1 | B+ |
| … | ||||||
| 236 | Llanharan and Brynna Mid Glamorgan | 8,106 | 27.2 | 6.7 | 3.1 | B− |
| … | ||||||
| 265 | Treharris Mid Glamorgan | 5,042 | 24.7 | 11.6 | 6.2 | C+ |
| … | ||||||
| 280 | Pencoed Mid Glamorgan | 9,119 | 28.3 | 8.7 | 5.9 | C+ |
| … | ||||||
| 315 | Anstey Leicestershire | 7,043 | 25 | 14.8 | 5.7 | C+ |
| 316 | Dursley Gloucestershire | 7,935 | 30.5 | 9.3 | 9.6 | C+ |
| 317 | Chipping Norton Oxfordshire | 6,991 | 31 | 8.8 | 12.9 | C+ |
| 318 | Beddau Mid Glamorgan | 7,356 | 31.2 | 8.7 | 6.2 | C+ |
| 319 | Cromer Norfolk | 7,522 | 31.1 | 8.9 | 16.7 | C+ |
| 320 | Irthlingborough Northamptonshire | 9,308 | 29.3 | 10.8 | 5.6 | C+ |
| 321 | Bungay Suffolk | 5,012 | 26.6 | 13.6 | 5.4 | 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 Beddau, and others in Mid Glamorgan.
Police name a suspect about as often as across UK towns
No suspect was identified for 69% of Beddau’s burglaries, vehicle crimes and criminal damage, against 69% across UK towns, and for 8% 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 7% 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. 277 crimes.
No one died in a collision on Beddau’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 12 collisions with injuries inside Beddau in five years. 5 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 Beddau is one of them.
Counting serious injuries too, a town of Beddau’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; Beddau 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 Beddau’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Beddau
| Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beddau | 7,356 | 31.2 | 8.7 | C+ |
| Llantrisant | 4,196 | 54.4 | 12.7 | D |
| Church Village | 14,162 | 16.7 | 5.9 | A− |
| Talbot Green | 3,291 | 46.9 | 19.7 | D |
| Pontyclun | 5,801 | 17.2 | 7.5 | B+ |
| Creigiau | 2,304 | 8.5 | 5.4 | A+ |
| Pentyrch | 2,374 | 15.9 | 5.8 | A− |
| Pontypridd | 31,895 | 46.7 | 14.4 | D |
Beddau records more graded crime per resident than 4 of its 7 neighbours. Church Village, 1.5 miles away, records 16.7 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Beddau’s 31.2.
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 Beddau 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 Beddau
Is Beddau safe?
Police recorded 31.2 violent and sexual offences and 8.7 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Beddau’s built-up area). That earns a C+ for safety: less crime per resident than 35% of UK towns. Among 546 UK towns of 5,000 to 10,000 people, Beddau is 318th from the least crime. 15% of residents live in neighbourhoods in Wales’s lowest-crime 10%.
Is crime going up in Beddau?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime held steady, burglary, vehicle crime and damage fell 12%, shoplifting and theft rose 113% and anti-social behaviour rose 30%. Across UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, violent crime held steady.
What is the most common crime in Beddau?
Violence & sexual offences: 228 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came public order (57) and shoplifting (40), with 74 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Beddau compare with Caerphilly?
Caerphilly records 42.1 violent and sexual offences and 18.6 crimes against homes and vehicles per 1,000 residents a year, against Beddau’s 31.2 and 8.7, 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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