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Torfaen crime rate and statistics (council area)
Updated October 2026.
Police published 11,770 street-crime records for the Torfaen council area from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 6.2% more than in the 12 months before. The rate is 127.6 per 1,000 residents counted in the Census 2021, against 123.5 for Gwent Police. A residents-only rate reads high where many people visit. Police locations are approximate.
These figures cover the whole area Torfaen council runs. Its boundary can differ from the place people call Torfaen: it can take in other towns and villages, and part of a town can sit in a neighbouring council area.
September 2025 to August 2026. Street-crime records include anti-social behaviour.
Street-crime records
11,770
Latest month (August 2026)
1,121
Year-on-year
+6.2%
Month-by-month totals
1,2450
926
Sep
973
Oct
832
Nov
897
Dec
990
Jan
858
Feb
962
Mar
1.0k
Apr
973
May
952
Jun
1.2k
Jul
1.1k
Aug
Striped bars: only some of the forces here published that month, so its count is incomplete. The table names the force.
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Month
Street-crime records
September 2025
926
October 2025
973
November 2025
832
December 2025
897
January 2026
990
February 2026
858 (Partly published: Gloucestershire Constabulary did not publish)
March 2026
962 (Partly published: Gloucestershire Constabulary did not publish)
April 2026
1,041 (Partly published: Gloucestershire Constabulary did not publish)
May 2026
973 (Partly published: Gloucestershire Constabulary did not publish)
June 2026
952 (Partly published: Gloucestershire Constabulary did not publish)
July 2026
1,245 (Partly published: Gloucestershire Constabulary did not publish)
August 2026
1,121 (Partly published: Gloucestershire Constabulary did not publish)
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.
Torfaen council area
127.6
Gwent Police
123.5
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.
11,770 records and 92,235 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 Torfaen 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.
Violence and sexual offences35.8%
4,219 records · England and Wales 35.5%
Anti-social behaviour18.6%
2,187 records · England and Wales 15.7%
Public order10.4%
1,219 records · England and Wales 6.9%
Criminal damage and arson9.9%
1,160 records · England and Wales 7.0%
Shoplifting7.6%
891 records · England and Wales 8.7%
Other theft4.7%
557 records · England and Wales 6.7%
Burglary3.3%
388 records · England and Wales 3.7%
Vehicle crime3.1%
366 records · England and Wales 5.1%
Where records cluster in the Torfaen council area
Records by part of the Torfaen council area: the south 6,788, the north-west 1,472, the south-east 1,323, the north 1,054, the centre 966, the west 279, the east 135, the north-east 24, the south-west 14.
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 Torfaen council area's postcodes; darker ones hold more records. Hexagons at the edge also hold records from neighbouring council areas, and the Torfaen 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 Torfaen council area records cluster in, not where incidents happened. Striped months add only the records that were published. Explore the Torfaen council area on the crime map.
Year by year
Calendar-year totals for the Torfaen council area (December 2013 to August 2026).
A council area follows the council's boundary (ONS local authority district W06000020), which can differ from the place people call Torfaen.
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 Torfaen. 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.
Districts with a page and at least 5% of their live postcodes in this council area. A district can cross a council boundary, so its page counts records on both sides.