Lock House · Photo: Jaggery · CC BY-SA 2.0Violent crime in Tonna rose 51% in a year, while towns its size held steady
Police recorded 15 cases of public order in Tonna in the 12 months to August 2026, a rate of 5.6 per 1,000 against a typical 3.6. In a usual year, 22.8 violent and sexual offences and 6.6 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage are logged per 1,000 inhabitants. Across all the graded crimes, Tonna lands on B (#5 of 19 in West Glamorgan): close to the middle of UK towns, on crimes police recorded inside its built-up area from September 2023 to August 2026.
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
What stands out about safety in Tonna
Violent crime rose over the year
In the 12 months to August 2026 police recorded 51% more violent crime per resident in Tonna 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 856 UK towns of 2,000 to 4,000 people, Tonna has the 446th lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Stoke Golding, Bosham and Great Lumley, higher than Seaton Sluice, Barnt Green and Moira. Towns its size ↓
Written from the police.uk and government data on this page. Figures are crimes police recorded, not convictions.
What’s behind Tonna’s grade
A fairly firm grade. Built on 235 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Tonna 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 Tonna 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 +51% (towns its size +1%).
How Tonna’s neighbourhoods rank in Wales
100% 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.
Tonna’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.
What police recorded in the last 12 months
Against the typical town its size, Tonna runs highest on public order (5.6 per 1,000 against 3.6) and violence & sexual offences (28.9 per 1,000 against 22.4).
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 77 | 28.9 | 22.4 |
| Public order | not graded | 15 | 5.6 | 3.6 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 11 | 4.1 | 4.5 |
| Other theft | not graded | 8 | 3 | 3.2 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 4 | 1.5 | 2 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 3 | 1.1 | 8.8 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 2 | 0.8 | 1.9 |
| Other crime | not graded | 2 | 0.8 | 1.5 |
| Drugs | not graded | 1 | 0.4 | 1 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 0 | 0 | 1.8 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 0 | 0 | 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.
Crime in Tonna 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 6 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.
Tonna is 446th 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+ |
| … | ||||||
| 13 | Bishopston West Glamorgan | 3,533 | 7.7 | 2.9 | 4.2 | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 149 | Rhos West Glamorgan | 2,560 | 16.1 | 3.3 | 1.6 | A− |
| … | ||||||
| 235 | Alltwen West Glamorgan | 2,721 | 18.8 | 3.9 | 14.6 | A− |
| … | ||||||
| 316 | Penllergaer West Glamorgan | 3,578 | 19.6 | 5.9 | 3.4 | B+ |
| … | ||||||
| 443 | Seaton Sluice Northumberland | 2,957 | 19.5 | 9.9 | 15 | B |
| 444 | Barnt Green Worcestershire | 3,821 | 15.1 | 14.3 | 6.7 | B |
| 445 | Moira Leicestershire | 3,198 | 19.3 | 10.1 | 6.2 | B |
| 446 | Tonna West Glamorgan | 2,665 | 22.8 | 6.6 | 3.1 | B |
| 447 | Stanford in the Vale Oxfordshire | 2,302 | 24 | 5.5 | 3.9 | B |
| 448 | Eye Suffolk | 2,211 | 23.2 | 6.3 | 5.3 | B |
| 449 | Croston Lancashire | 2,793 | 19.8 | 9.8 | 3.6 | B |
| … | ||||||
| 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 Tonna, and others in West Glamorgan.
No one died in a collision on Tonna’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 1 collision with injuries inside Tonna in five years. 0 people were killed or seriously injured.
Most UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people (81%) had no road deaths in these five years, and Tonna is one of them.
Counting serious injuries too, a town of Tonna’s size at the median for UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people would see about 2 people killed or seriously injured in five years; Tonna had 0.
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 Tonna’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Tonna
Tonna records more graded crime per resident than 2 of its 7 neighbours. Rhos, 3.5 miles away, records 16.1 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Tonna’s 22.8.
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 Tonna 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 Tonna
Is Tonna safe?
Police recorded 22.8 violent and sexual offences and 6.6 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Tonna’s built-up area). That earns a B for safety: less crime per resident than 57% of UK towns. Among 856 UK towns of 2,000 to 4,000 people, Tonna is 446th from the least crime.
Is crime going up in Tonna?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime rose 51%, burglary, vehicle crime and damage rose 42%, shoplifting and theft rose 33% and anti-social behaviour fell 73%. Across UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, violent crime held steady.
What is the most common crime in Tonna?
Violence & sexual offences: 77 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came public order (15) and criminal damage & arson (11), with 3 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Tonna compare with Swansea?
Swansea records 42.6 violent and sexual offences and 15.6 crimes against homes and vehicles per 1,000 residents a year, against Tonna’s 22.8 and 6.6, 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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