Photo: Mick Lobb · CC BY-SA 2.0Talbot Green records more crime per resident than nine in ten UK towns
Police recorded 169 cases of shoplifting in Talbot Green in the 12 months to August 2026, a rate of 51.4 per 1,000 against a typical 1.8. Measured on crimes police recorded inside the town’s built-up area between September 2023 and August 2026, it earns a Safety Grade of D: #30 of 32 in Mid Glamorgan. Add to that, recorded violence rose 21% in a year. Its police logs show 46.9 violent and sexual offences and 19.7 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage per 1,000 residents a year.
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
What stands out about safety in Talbot Green
Violent crime rose over the year
In the 12 months to August 2026 police recorded 21% more violent crime per resident in Talbot Green than in the year before; across UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people violent crime held steady. Burglary, vehicle crime and criminal damage rose 25% (towns its size: held steady). Trend ↓
Written from the police.uk and government data on this page. Figures are crimes police recorded, not convictions.
What’s behind Talbot Green’s grade
A firm grade. Built on 657 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Talbot Green 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, Talbot Green runs highest on shoplifting (51.4 per 1,000 against 1.8), public order (20.1 per 1,000 against 3.6) and vehicle crime (8.2 per 1,000 against 2).
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shoplifting | not graded | 169 | 51.4 | 1.8 |
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 159 | 48.3 | 22.4 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 85 | 25.8 | 8.8 |
| Public order | not graded | 66 | 20.1 | 3.6 |
| Other theft | not graded | 39 | 11.9 | 3.2 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 27 | 8.2 | 2 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 26 | 7.9 | 4.5 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 16 | 4.9 | 1.9 |
| Other crime | not graded | 13 | 4 | 1.5 |
| Drugs | not graded | 12 | 3.6 | 1 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 7 | 2.1 | 0.4 |
| Robbery | Violent | 7 | 2.1 | 0.2 |
| Theft from the person | not graded | 5 | 1.5 | 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.
How Talbot Green compares with 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+ |
| … | ||||||
| 60 | Pen-y-fai Mid Glamorgan | 2,301 | 10.3 | 5.1 | 2.8 | A |
| … | ||||||
| 429 | Taff's Well Mid Glamorgan | 3,553 | 20.2 | 8.9 | 26.3 | B |
| 430 | Llanharry Mid Glamorgan | 3,747 | 23.7 | 5.4 | 2.5 | B |
| … | ||||||
| 492 | Nant-y-moel Mid Glamorgan | 2,378 | 24.8 | 6.6 | 3.4 | B− |
| … | ||||||
| 820 | Blaenau Ffestiniog Gwynedd | 3,449 | 53.4 | 12.3 | 9.7 | D |
| 821 | Llangollen Clwyd | 3,048 | 50.1 | 15.8 | 22.5 | D |
| 822 | Hellingly East Sussex | 2,616 | 50 | 16.3 | 5.4 | D |
| 823 | Talbot Green Mid Glamorgan | 3,291 | 46.9 | 19.7 | 55.1 | D |
| 824 | Fishguard Dyfed | 3,422 | 53 | 14.1 | 8.9 | D |
| 825 | Ruabon Clwyd | 3,414 | 48 | 19.3 | 28 | D |
| 826 | Pwllheli Gwynedd | 3,622 | 52.7 | 15.2 | 21.5 | D |
| … | ||||||
| 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 Talbot Green, and others in Mid Glamorgan.
How crime in Talbot Green 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 +21% (towns its size +1%), homes and vehicles +25% (towns its size -1%), shoplifting and theft +22% (towns its size +2%), anti-social behaviour -9% (towns its size +0%).
How Talbot Green’s neighbourhoods rank in Wales
16% 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.
Talbot Green’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 Talbot Green 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 21 burglaries, vehicle crimes or acts of criminal damage, plus 65 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 64% of Talbot Green’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” (69% here), usually because the victim doesn’t support a prosecution. About 11% of violent and 9% 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. 217 crimes.
Where in Talbot Green police recorded crime
| At or near | Reports | Mostly |
|---|---|---|
| Supermarkets | 216 | 67% shoplifting & theft |
| Car parks | 133 | 83% shoplifting & theft |
| Petrol stations | 86 | 63% shoplifting & theft |
| Shopping areas | 40 | 68% shoplifting & theft |
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 Talbot Green. 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 Talbot Green’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 6 collisions with injuries inside Talbot Green in five years. 1 person was killed or seriously injured: 1 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 Talbot Green is one of them.
Counting serious injuries too, a town of Talbot Green’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; Talbot Green 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 Talbot Green’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Talbot Green
| Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Talbot Green | 3,291 | 46.9 | 19.7 | D |
| Llantrisant | 4,196 | 54.4 | 12.7 | D |
| Pontyclun | 5,801 | 17.2 | 7.5 | B+ |
| Beddau | 7,356 | 31.2 | 8.7 | C+ |
| Llanharry | 3,747 | 23.7 | 5.4 | B |
| Llanharan and Brynna | 8,106 | 27.2 | 6.7 | B− |
| Creigiau | 2,304 | 8.5 | 5.4 | A+ |
| Church Village | 14,162 | 16.7 | 5.9 | A− |
Talbot Green records more graded crime per resident than 6 of its 7 neighbours; only Llantrisant records more. Pontyclun, 0.7 miles away, records 17.2 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Talbot Green’s 46.9.
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 Talbot Green 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 Talbot Green
Is Talbot Green safe?
Police recorded 46.9 violent and sexual offences and 19.7 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Talbot Green’s built-up area). That earns a D for safety: less crime per resident than 8% of UK towns. Among UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, Talbot Green has less crime per resident than 7%.
Is crime going up in Talbot Green?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime rose 21%, burglary, vehicle crime and damage rose 25%, shoplifting and theft rose 22% and anti-social behaviour fell 9%. Across UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, violent crime held steady.
What is the most common crime in Talbot Green?
Shoplifting: 169 in the 12 months to August 2026. Next came violence & sexual offences (159) and public order (66), with 85 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Talbot Green compare with Pontypridd?
Pontypridd records 46.7 violent and sexual offences and 14.4 crimes against homes and vehicles per 1,000 residents a year, against Talbot Green’s 46.9 and 19.7, 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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