3,177 crimes were recorded within a mile of the centre of Merthyr Tydfil between August 2025 to July 2026. South Wales Police logged an outcome for 2,170 of them.
80% 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
1,047
up 7%
15%
Shoplifting
521
up 22%
43%
Anti-social behaviour
461
down 17%
n/a
Public order
320
up 1%
25%
Criminal damage and arson
223
down 11%
47%
Other theft
157
up 34%
68%
Vehicle crime
127
down 24%
80%
Drugs
119
up 2%
2%
Other crime
77
down 49%
22%
Burglary
59
down 21%
69%
Robbery
26
too few
too few
Possession of weapons
18
too few
too few
Theft from the person
18
too few
too few
Bicycle theft
4
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
Parking Areakind of place, not a street97
Police Stationkind of place, not a street50
Coffins Row40
Shopping Areakind of place, not a street33
Second Avenue28
Post Office Lane26
Sports/Recreation Areakind of place, not a street22
Vulcan Road17
Shoplifting
Parking Areakind of place, not a street133
Shopping Areakind of place, not a street130
John Street92
Sports/Recreation Areakind of place, not a street39
Llys Corona36
Post Office Lane16
Pantycelynen15
Masonic Street14
Anti-social behaviour
Parking Areakind of place, not a street91
John Street54
Sports/Recreation Areakind of place, not a street23
Shopping Areakind of place, not a street16
Post Office Lane14
Llwyn Berry12
Broad Street11
Coffins Row9
Public order
Parking Areakind of place, not a street50
Police Stationkind of place, not a street17
Shopping Areakind of place, not a street17
John Street14
Post Office Lane12
Coffins Row11
Sports/Recreation Areakind of place, not a street10
