{"id":645468,"date":"2025-12-21T03:32:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T03:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/645468\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T03:32:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T03:32:18","slug":"map-reveals-wales-most-violent-places","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/645468\/","title":{"rendered":"Map reveals Wales’ most violent places"},"content":{"rendered":"

Figures from the Office for National Statistics rank areas according to the severity of crimes that take place there\"TheThe centre of Tredegar in Blaenau Gwent(Image: WalesOnline\/ Rob Browne)<\/p>\n

The most crime-ravaged parts of Wales have been revealed in a new map which shows that criminals cause twice as much harm in some parts of the nation as others.<\/p>\n

\u201cCrime severity\u201d scores from the Office for National Statistics measure the seriousness of wrongdoing in each area by examining the type of offending as well as the volume, so a murder or a rape counts much more heavily than a minor theft.<\/p>\n

These figures suggest that, in Wales, crime is at its most severe in Newport<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The city suffered a higher impact from robbery and theft than any other part of Wales, while two-thirds of its overall severity score of 20.9 was made up of violent crime and sexual offences. For the biggest stories in Wales first, sign up to our daily newsletter<\/a> here<\/strong><\/p>\n

Blaenau Gwent<\/a> had the next highest score of 20.3, mainly fueled by crimes of violence against the person. The impact of sexual offences was most severe in Torfaen<\/a>, which received the third highest overall score of 19.5.<\/p>\n

At the other end of the spectrum, Isle of Anglesey<\/a> was the safest part of Wales to live with a crime severity score of just 9.7, less than half as high as the score granted to Newport.<\/p>\n

Of the four police force areas in Wales, Gwent had the highest average score (17.6), and South Wales the lowest (13.2).<\/p>\n

Across the whole of Wales, the average score is 14.1, which is below the England average (16.3).<\/p>\n

You can see how it compares where you live using our interactive map, below:<\/p>\n

Crime severity scores may offer a truer picture of the impact of crime in each area than crime rates, which are useful in measuring the volume of crime, but don\u2019t distinguish between different types of offences.<\/p>\n

They are influenced by the scale of punishment imposed on wrongdoers, so crimes causing a high degree of harm are assigned much higher scores than low-level offences, such as criminal damage.<\/p>\n

When crime severity scores were first introduced in the year ending March, 2003, England and Wales was given an overall score of 15.9.<\/p>\n

The scores then fell consistently down to a low of 9.3 in the year ending March, 2013, but then began rising each year apart from a dip during the pandemic.<\/p>\n

The total peaked at 16.4 in the year ending March, 2023, and currently stands at 16.3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Figures from the Office for National Statistics rank areas according to the severity of crimes that take place…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":645469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5010],"tags":[748,188,4884,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-645468","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wales","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115755453348528225","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}