Council area

Merthyr Tydfil crime rate and statistics (council area)

Updated October 2026.

Police published 6,453 street-crime records for the Merthyr Tydfil council area from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 2.1% more than in the 12 months before. The rate is 109.6 per 1,000 residents counted in the Census 2021, against 97.9 for South Wales Police. A residents-only rate reads high where many people visit. Police locations are approximate.

These figures cover the whole area Merthyr Tydfil council runs. Its boundary can differ from the place people call Merthyr Tydfil: it can take in other towns and villages, and part of a town can sit in a neighbouring council area.

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Last 12 published months

September 2025 to August 2026. Street-crime records include anti-social behaviour.

Street-crime records

6,453

Latest month (August 2026)

665

Year-on-year

+2.1%

Month-by-month totals

483

Sep

552

Oct

477

Nov

469

Dec

546

Jan

432

Feb

500

Mar

546

Apr

547

May

565

Jun

671

Jul

665

Aug

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Month	Street-crime records
September 2025	483
October 2025	552
November 2025	477
December 2025	469
January 2026	546
February 2026	432
March 2026	500
April 2026	546
May 2026	547
June 2026	565
July 2026	671
August 2026	665

Street-crime records per 1,000 residents

Published street-crime records (including anti-social behaviour), September 2025 to August 2026, per 1,000 usual residents in the Census 2021.

Merthyr Tydfil council area

109.6

South Wales Police

97.9

Residents are the Census 2021 usual residents of every postcode the ONS Postcode Directory places in this council area, added up by CrimeMapsUK from the census postcode counts. Records are assigned through the same postcodes, so both numbers cover the same ground. The total can differ slightly from the council's official population.

6,453 records and 58,898 residents. Residents-only rates overstate crime where many people visit who do not live there, such as city centres, stations, and retail parks. Residents are counted at March 2021 while records are current, so areas with many newer homes can read higher.

No England and Wales comparison is shown, because not every force involved has published every month of this window.

Rates cover England and Wales only. Residents: Office for National Statistics, Census 2021 postcode estimates, Open Government Licence v3.0. How rates are built.

Top crime categories

Share of the Merthyr Tydfil council area's records in the same trailing window. The black line on each bar marks the England and Wales share for the same months.

Where records cluster in the Merthyr Tydfil council area

Records by part of the Merthyr Tydfil council area: the north 3,776, the north-west 1,272, the south-east 995, the north-east 204, the south 116, the east 49, the centre 46.

North is at the top. Each hexagon is about 1.2 km across, the size the crime map uses zoomed out, and holds at least one of the Merthyr Tydfil council area's postcodes; darker ones hold more records. Hexagons at the edge also hold records from neighbouring council areas, and the Merthyr Tydfil council area's records placed outside these hexagons are not drawn, so the map's counts won't add up to the page's total. Police place each record at an approximate public point, so this shows which parts of the Merthyr Tydfil council area records cluster in, not where incidents happened. Explore the Merthyr Tydfil council area on the crime map.

Year by year

Calendar-year totals for the Merthyr Tydfil council area (December 2013 to August 2026).

Year	Street-crime records
2021	6,380
2022	6,054
2023	6,990
2024	6,380
2025	6,359
2026 (part year)	4,472

Police forces

The Merthyr Tydfil council area's records from September 2025 to August 2026 were published by South Wales Police (99.3%), Gwent Police (0.3%), Dyfed-Powys Police (0.3%), Metropolitan Police (0.1%) and Wiltshire Police (0.0%).

Limits to keep in mind

A council area follows the council's boundary (ONS local authority district W06000024), which can differ from the place people call Merthyr Tydfil.
Published locations are approximate, and each record counts for the council area of its nearest postcode, using the council codes in the ONS Postcode Directory. Counts near the boundary are indicative.
These are counts of published police records, not all crime, and not a safety score.
Other sites can show a different figure for Merthyr Tydfil. These counts include anti-social behaviour, cover the 12 published months shown, and assign each record by its nearest postcode. The rate divides by Census 2021 residents of the same postcodes, not by a later mid-year population estimate.
Full detail is on the methodology page.

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CrimeMapsUK. Merthyr Tydfil council area: published street-crime records, September 2025 to August 2026. Source: data.police.uk, Open Government Licence v3.0. Retrieved 30 October 2026. Police locations are approximate; records are assigned to the area by nearest postcode. Postcode centroids from the ONS Postcode Directory. Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026. https://crimemapsuk.com/crime/council-areas/merthyr-tydfil/