Photo: Malost · CC BY-SA 3.0Taff's Well stands out for shoplifting: 13.5 times the rate of a typical town its size
Its letter overall is B (#3 of 32 in Mid Glamorgan): close to the middle of UK towns, from crimes police recorded inside its built-up area through September 2023 to August 2026. Among the 1,308 UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, it records less crime per resident than 62%. What’s more, violent crime was down 24% in a year. Each year brought 20.2 violent and sexual offences and 8.9 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage for every 1,000 residents.
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
What stands out about safety in Taff's Well
Violent crime fell over the year
In the 12 months to August 2026 police recorded 24% less violent crime per resident in Taff's Well than in the year before; across UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people violent crime held steady. Trend ↓
About the middle for a town its size
Of 1,089 UK towns of 2,000 to 5,000 people, Taff's Well has the 520th lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Ellistown, Crickhowell and Hibaldstow, higher than Elmswell, Barrow upon Humber and Witham St Hughs. 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. 34% of Taff's Well’s residents live in one of the lowest-crime 10%, and 0% 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.
What’s behind Taff's Well’s grade
A fairly firm grade. Built on 310 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Taff's Well 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, Taff's Well runs highest on shoplifting (24.8 per 1,000 against 1.8), public order (11.3 per 1,000 against 3.6) and vehicle crime (3.1 per 1,000 against 2). Violence & sexual offences and anti-social behaviour sit below it.
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shoplifting | not graded | 88 | 24.8 | 1.8 |
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 66 | 18.6 | 22.4 |
| Public order | not graded | 40 | 11.3 | 3.6 |
| Other theft | not graded | 16 | 4.5 | 3.2 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 15 | 4.2 | 4.5 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 15 | 4.2 | 8.8 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 11 | 3.1 | 2 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 10 | 2.8 | 1.9 |
| Drugs | not graded | 5 | 1.4 | 1 |
| Other crime | not graded | 2 | 0.6 | 1.5 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 1 | 0.3 | 0.1 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 0 | 0 | 0.4 |
| 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 Taff's Well 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 -24% (towns its size +1%), homes and vehicles +9% (towns its size -1%), shoplifting and theft +21% (towns its size +2%), anti-social behaviour -55% (towns its size +0%).
A third of Taff's Well residents live in one of Wales’s lowest-crime neighbourhoods
54% 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.
Taff's Well’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 Taff's Well 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 10 burglaries, vehicle crimes or acts of criminal damage, plus 30 shoplifting and theft reports, in the 12 months to August 2026. Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot is one recorded crime.
Of 1,089 towns its size, Taff's Well is 520th from the least graded crime
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bailrigg Lancashire | 4,788 | 4.7 | 2.5 | 7.9 | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 67 | Pen-y-fai Mid Glamorgan | 2,301 | 10.3 | 5.1 | 2.8 | A |
| … | ||||||
| 517 | Elmswell Suffolk | 4,446 | 23.7 | 5.3 | 4.4 | B |
| 518 | Barrow upon Humber Lincolnshire | 2,843 | 21.1 | 8 | 2.2 | B |
| 519 | Witham St Hughs Lincolnshire | 3,483 | 22.2 | 6.9 | 6.8 | B |
| 520 | Taff's Well Mid Glamorgan | 3,553 | 20.2 | 8.9 | 26.3 | B |
| 521 | Llanharry Mid Glamorgan | 3,747 | 23.7 | 5.4 | 2.5 | B |
| 522 | Mullion Cornwall | 2,148 | 22.2 | 6.9 | 3.7 | B |
| 523 | Bere Alston Devon | 2,259 | 17.4 | 11.8 | 3.1 | B |
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| 603 | Nant-y-moel Mid Glamorgan | 2,378 | 24.8 | 6.6 | 3.4 | B− |
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| 739 | Ynysybwl Mid Glamorgan | 4,580 | 28.1 | 8.7 | 3.6 | C+ |
| … | ||||||
| 809 | Pontycymer Mid Glamorgan | 2,421 | 33 | 7.2 | 7.4 | C+ |
| … | ||||||
| 1089 | 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 Taff's Well, and others in Mid Glamorgan.
No one died in a collision on Taff's Well’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 14 collisions with injuries inside Taff's Well in five years. 4 people were killed or seriously injured: 2 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 Taff's Well is one of them.
Counting serious injuries too, a town of Taff's Well’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; Taff's Well 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 Taff's Well’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Taff's Well
| Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Taff's Well | 3,553 | 20.2 | 8.9 | B |
| Tongwynlais | 1,846 | 39.9 | 16.4 | C− |
| Pentyrch | 2,374 | 15.9 | 5.8 | A− |
| Church Village | 14,162 | 16.7 | 5.9 | A− |
| Caerphilly | 33,104 | 42.1 | 18.6 | D |
| Creigiau | 2,304 | 8.5 | 5.4 | A+ |
| Beddau | 7,356 | 31.2 | 8.7 | C+ |
| Abertridwr and Senghenydd | 5,639 | 45.1 | 18 | D |
Taff's Well records more graded crime per resident than 3 of its 7 neighbours. Pentyrch, 1.7 miles away, records 15.9 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Taff's Well’s 20.2.
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 Taff's Well 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 Taff's Well
Is Taff's Well safe?
Police recorded 20.2 violent and sexual offences and 8.9 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Taff's Well’s built-up area). That earns a B for safety: less crime per resident than 58% of UK towns. Among 1,089 UK towns of 2,000 to 5,000 people, Taff's Well is 520th from the least crime. 34% of residents live in neighbourhoods in Wales’s lowest-crime 10%.
Is crime going up in Taff's Well?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime fell 24%, burglary, vehicle crime and damage rose 9%, shoplifting and theft rose 21% and anti-social behaviour fell 55%. Across UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, violent crime held steady.
What is the most common crime in Taff's Well?
Shoplifting: 88 in the 12 months to August 2026. Next came violence & sexual offences (66) and public order (40), with 15 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Taff's Well compare with Cardiff?
Cardiff records 40 violent and sexual offences and 22.4 crimes against homes and vehicles per 1,000 residents a year, against Taff's Well’s 20.2 and 8.9, 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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