2,523 crimes were recorded within a mile of the centre of Neath between August 2025 to July 2026. South Wales Police logged an outcome for 1,633 of them.
73% 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
1,097
up 5%
14%
Public order
342
up 11%
28%
Anti-social behaviour
335
down 1%
n/a
Shoplifting
181
up 155%
51%
Criminal damage and arson
165
up 36%
63%
Other theft
128
up 46%
57%
Drugs
76
down 15%
8%
Other crime
58
up 15%
9%
Vehicle crime
46
too few
73%
Burglary
39
too few
48%
Possession of weapons
24
too few
too few
Robbery
16
too few
too few
Theft from the person
9
too few
too few
Bicycle theft
7
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.
