2,064 crimes were recorded within a mile of the centre of Pontypool between August 2025 to July 2026. Gwent Police logged an outcome for 1,225 of them.
76% of burglary 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
782
up 11%
17%
Anti-social behaviour
368
up 30%
n/a
Criminal damage and arson
261
down 19%
60%
Public order
214
up 4%
30%
Other theft
93
down 31%
64%
Shoplifting
93
down 31%
44%
Vehicle crime
61
down 31%
73%
Burglary
59
down 16%
76%
Other crime
55
down 4%
33%
Drugs
44
down 24%
0%
Possession of weapons
20
too few
too few
Robbery
9
too few
too few
Bicycle theft
3
too few
too few
Theft from the person
2
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 street58
Sports/Recreation Areakind of place, not a street34
Hospital Road32
Hospitalkind of place, not a street31
Hanbury Road29
Commercial Street22
Glantorvaen Road22
Hill Street22
Anti-social behaviour
Parking Areakind of place, not a street81
Shopping Areakind of place, not a street21
Sports/Recreation Areakind of place, not a street18
