1,643 crimes were recorded within a mile of the centre of Aberdare between August 2025 to July 2026. South Wales Police logged an outcome for 1,030 of them.
90% of vehicle crime cases here ended with no suspect identified.
Month by month
August 2025July 2026
What was reported, and how it ended
The change compares the most recent six months with the six before them. Cases still under investigation are not counted in the rate.
Category
Recorded
Change
No suspect identified
Violence and sexual offences
742
down 6%
13%
Anti-social behaviour
266
up 5%
n/a
Public order
226
down 2%
30%
Criminal damage and arson
129
up 11%
53%
Shoplifting
67
up 31%
46%
Other theft
57
down 22%
63%
Vehicle crime
36
down 29%
90%
Drugs
32
too few
4%
Other crime
29
too few
24%
Burglary
28
too few
61%
Possession of weapons
16
too few
too few
Robbery
9
too few
too few
Theft from the person
6
too few
too few
Where it happens
The source records a crime as being on or near a street rather than at an address, so that nobody can be identified from it. Where a crime happened at a kind of place rather than on a road, it records the kind of place instead, and those entries are marked below. These are the locations that come up most often across the whole 12 months.
Violence and sexual offences
Sports/Recreation Areakind of place, not a street46
Shopping Areakind of place, not a street42
Parking Areakind of place, not a street35
Aberdare Bus Station31
Ty Fry30
Nightclubkind of place, not a street20
Rhos Dyfed18
Church Street16
Anti-social behaviour
Aberdare Bus Station28
Parking Areakind of place, not a street28
John Street15
Petrol Stationkind of place, not a street15
Sports/Recreation Areakind of place, not a street15
