Dyfed Crime Statistics
Last updated: 07 Jun 2026
The overall crime rate in Dyfed as of April 2026 is 69 crimes per 1,000 people, and the most common crimes are violence and sexual offences, with reports coming from roughly every 36 out of 1,000 daytime population.
Comparing Dyfed's larger towns and cities, and using Crime Risk Scores - which are calculated by taking severity of each crime type into account - Haverfordwest is the most dangerous. The next most dangerous is Carmarthen, and Llanelli comes in as third most dangerous. There are safer parts of Dyfed, identified using the same Crime Risk measurement, starting with Llandybie which ranks as the safest area in Dyfed, followed up by Llanelli Rural in second place, and Aberystwyth in third place.
Dyfed Crime Map
Incidents mapped in Dyfed represent the time frame between January 2016 and April 2026. Each point on the map represents an area where crimes have been recorded locally.
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Introduction to Dyfed's crime statistics
This crime profile provides a detailed view of crime and safety around Dyfed up to April 2026, the most recent data release available. The crime figures and statistics have been calculated across each of Dyfed's 17,453 postcodes using three area sizes for comparison:
- Within a Five-Minute Walk
- Within a Ten-Minute Walk
- Within a Fifteen-Minute Walk
Individual crime risk scores and index figures are for the 12-month period ending April 2026 unless otherwise stated.
Crime Risk Scores
Dyfed • 12 Months Ending April 2026
The typical five-minute walk within Dyfed has a crime risk score of 693. This is based on analysis of 17,453 nearby areas within Dyfed, with "most" referring to roughly two thirds of the nearby locations.
Crime risk scores are on a scale of 1 to 1,000 and consider the severity of the crimes involved, as determined by sentencing guidelines. A score of 1 represents the lowest risk, and 1,000 the highest risk. This approach ensures that - unlike overall crime rate figures - bicycle theft is not given the same importance in Dyfed's risk scores as, for example, robbery, or violence & sexual offences.
Within a five-minute walk of the typical location in Dyfed, crime risk scores are typically around 693, while in Wales they are average 606.
Areas within a ten-minute walk typically see crime risk scores of 702 (634 for Wales), and scores within a fifteen-minute walk are most often around 715 (Wales 654).
Trends in Crime Risk
Dyfed
Calculated via Seasonal and Trend decomposition using Loess, the Seasonality Adjusted line represents the original data with seasonality subtracted, and the Trend line has been plotted unadjusted. Overall trend direction has been identified using the Mann-Kendall trend test, and rate calculated from the slope of the best-fit line identified from linear regression.
The 10-year trend indicates an increase of 21% in Dyfed's crime risk score. This is potentially a strong signal of how the crime risk is evolving. Cross-referencing with major cultural events and Covid's impact during this time is advised.
The five-year trend may be static; no significant trend was identified in Dyfed's crime risk scores during this timeframe.
Over the last year, Dyfed's crime risk score has shown an upward trend of approximately 2.3%, indicating that the risk profile is going up. This is an extremely short time period for crime trend analysis, and caution should be exercised when interpreting this figure.
Crime Rates and Indexes
Dyfed
The CrimeRate Index shows how crime rates compare against the national average.
1.0 equals the average
2.0 is double
3.0 triple
0.5 is half and
0.25 a quarter.
Highest Crime Rates
Dyfed • 12 Months Ending April 2026
Excluding other crime and other theft because their geographic location is often not relevant, anti-social behaviour as its definition is too wide, and bicycle theft for its specificity.
Criminal Damage and Arson offences have a crime rate of 7.64 reports per 1,000 people in Dyfed, which is 1.22 times the national average. This figure is calculated from 3,215 crime reports logged by Dyfed-Powys Police during the 12-month period ending April 2026.
For the same period, Dyfed-Powys Police recorded 15,237 reports of Violence and Sexual Offences in Dyfed, resulting in a crime rate of 36 reports per 1,000, and a CrimeRate Index of 1.19.
The crime rate for Public Order is 1.09 times the national average at 6.32 reports per 1,000. This is from 2,654 crime reports reported to Dyfed-Powys Police.
Most Significant 3-Year Increases in Crime Types
Dyfed
Excluding other crime and other theft, anti-social behaviour, and bicycle theft, and calculated with the same STL method described in Trends in Crime Risk, using CrimeRate Index figures to identify crime types that are trending above or below the national average, and the analysis timeframe limited to the last three years.
Vehicle Crime offences are trending upwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 0.26 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Vehicle Crime CrimeRate Index was 0.05 times the national average, and the current trend indicates an increase of 420% over this timeframe.
Possession of Weapons offences are trending upwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 1.57 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Possession of Weapons CrimeRate Index was 0.29 times the national average, and the current trend indicates an increase of 441% over this timeframe.
Burglary offences are trending upwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 0.88 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Burglary CrimeRate Index was 0.13 times the national average, and the current trend indicates an increase of 577% over this timeframe.
Most Significant 3-Year Decreases in Crime Types
Dyfed
Calculated with the same methodology as the largest increases section above.
Drugs offences are trending downwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 1.26 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Drugs CrimeRate Index was 0.52 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a decrease of 142% over this timeframe.
Shoplifting offences are trending downwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 0.59 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Shoplifting CrimeRate Index was 0.12 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a decrease of 392% over this timeframe.
Crime Type Breakdown & Heat Map
Dyfed • 12 Months Ending April 2026
Size and colour reflect the CrimeRate Index figures for each type of crime.
Dyfed | Wales | Dyfed-Powys Police | |||||||
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| Crime Type | Count | Rate | Index | Count | Rate | Index | Count | Rate | Index |
| Anti-Social Behaviour | 4,264 | 10.14 | 0.72 | 37,683 | 10.96 | 0.78 | 5,647 | 9.94 | 0.70 |
| Bicycle Theft | 110 | 0.27 | 0.37 | 1,599 | 0.46 | 0.63 | 139 | 0.24 | 0.33 |
| Burglary | 1,061 | 2.53 | 0.81 | 6,704 | 1.94 | 0.62 | 1,418 | 2.51 | 0.80 |
| Criminal Damage and Arson | 3,215 | 7.64 | 1.22 | 21,045 | 6.12 | 0.97 | 4,137 | 7.28 | 1.16 |
| Drugs | 1,282 | 3.05 | 0.99 | 7,344 | 2.14 | 0.69 | 1,676 | 2.96 | 0.96 |
| Other Crime | 869 | 2.08 | 1.12 | 6,008 | 1.76 | 0.95 | 1,109 | 1.96 | 1.06 |
| Other Theft | 1,851 | 4.40 | 0.77 | 13,307 | 3.88 | 0.68 | 2,428 | 4.29 | 0.75 |
| Possession of Weapons | 364 | 0.87 | 1.02 | 2,296 | 0.68 | 0.80 | 487 | 0.86 | 1.01 |
| Public Order | 2,654 | 6.32 | 1.09 | 23,747 | 6.91 | 1.19 | 3,444 | 6.07 | 1.05 |
| Robbery | 70 | 0.16 | 0.14 | 1,461 | 0.43 | 0.36 | 91 | 0.16 | 0.14 |
| Shoplifting | 1,560 | 3.70 | 0.52 | 19,180 | 5.58 | 0.78 | 1,822 | 3.21 | 0.45 |
| Theft From the Person | 134 | 0.32 | 0.21 | 1,019 | 0.28 | 0.18 | 165 | 0.28 | 0.18 |
| Vehicle Crime | 582 | 1.39 | 0.32 | 8,617 | 2.52 | 0.59 | 780 | 1.37 | 0.32 |
| Violence and Sexual Offences | 15,237 | 36.26 | 1.19 | 99,099 | 28.83 | 0.95 | 19,767 | 34.86 | 1.15 |
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Total Crime by Year
Dyfed | Wales | Dyfed-Powys Police | |||||||
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| Year | Count | Rate | Index | Count | Rate | Index | Count | Rate | Index |
| 2026 | 28,989 | 68.99 | 0.96 | 211,426 | 61.53 | 0.85 | 37,463 | 66.05 | 0.92 |
| 2025 | 29,964 | 72.12 | 0.97 | 257,229 | 75.28 | 1.02 | 38,706 | 69.00 | 0.93 |
| 2024 | 15,937 | 38.53 | 0.55 | 238,672 | 70.43 | 0.93 | 20,916 | 37.49 | 0.52 |
| 2023 | 33,817 | 82.19 | 1.04 | 255,615 | 75.95 | 0.96 | 44,039 | 79.29 | 1.00 |
| 2022 | 30,384 | 74.53 | 0.97 | 245,565 | 73.85 | 0.96 | 39,549 | 71.93 | 0.94 |
| 2021 | 23,666 | 58.52 | 0.85 | 217,266 | 65.68 | 0.96 | 30,648 | 56.21 | 0.82 |
| 2020 | 23,659 | 59.27 | 0.80 | 237,502 | 72.15 | 0.97 | 30,356 | 56.36 | 0.76 |
| 2019 | 23,147 | 58.27 | 0.76 | 244,905 | 74.66 | 0.98 | 29,871 | 55.67 | 0.73 |
| 2018 | 20,593 | 51.81 | 0.73 | 218,341 | 66.57 | 0.94 | 26,992 | 50.21 | 0.71 |
| 2017 | 17,777 | 44.79 | 0.70 | 199,059 | 60.80 | 0.95 | 23,482 | 43.66 | 0.68 |
| 2016 | 5,220 | 13.13 | 0.69 | 61,849 | 18.94 | 0.99 | 6,920 | 12.88 | 0.68 |
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The Dyfed Streets With The Highest Crime Counts
Each police crime report that CrimeRate receives has a street name automatically assigned to it by the police data team, and this table uses the coordinates to count crimes, rather than the street name alone. That way, if Dyfed has multiple identical street names - which is not unusual - they will be treated separately by CrimeRate's systems.
| Street | Crime Count | ||||||||
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| Maes Aeron Nantcwnlle | 84 | ||||||||
| B4337 Llanfihangel Ystrad | 82 | ||||||||
| Brynglas Crescent Llangunnor | 57 | ||||||||
| The Friars Lane Haverfordwest | 53 | ||||||||
| John Street Llanelli | 52 | ||||||||
| Milford Haven Milford Haven | 44 | ||||||||
| Heol Aur Llanelli Rural | 42 | ||||||||
| Saron Road Llangeler | 37 | ||||||||
| Hospital Carmarthen | 35 | ||||||||
| Petrol Station Pembroke Dock | 34 | ||||||||
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Town and City Comparison
| Town / City | Crime Count | Crime Rate | CrimeRate Index | ||||||
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| Haverfordwest | 2,192 | 140.74 | 2.02 | ||||||
| Milford Haven | 1,996 | 125.17 | 1.80 | ||||||
| Llanelli | 3,443 | 122.32 | 1.71 | ||||||
| Aberystwyth | 1,449 | 114.64 | 1.68 | ||||||
| Carmarthen | 2,164 | 104.91 | 1.50 | ||||||
| Pembroke Dock | 1,134 | 96.84 | 1.43 | ||||||
| Pembroke | 783 | 95.73 | 1.46 | ||||||
| Pembrey and Burry Port Town | 712 | 83.46 | 1.35 | ||||||
| Llanelli Rural | 1,857 | 75.81 | 1.09 | ||||||
| Llandybie | 563 | 45.67 | 0.77 | ||||||
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