Crime Rate in Mountain Ash, ward

Mountain Ash has the 15th highest crime rate of 46 wards in Rhondda Cynon Taf district and the 1991st highest crime rate ward of 7,541 wards in England and Wales.

The overall crime rate in Mountain Ash in the last 12 months was 92.1 per 1,000 residents and was 7.4% higher than the Rhondda Cynon Taf district average (85.7 per 1,000 residents). In the last 12 months, Mountain Ash’s most reported crimes were Violence and sexual offences with 338 offences recorded. The least common crime was Bicycle theft with 1 case , unchanged from 2025. The fastest-growing crime category was Shoplifting ( 700.0% YoY). The sharpest decline was Robbery ( -33.3% YoY).

Violent crimes totalled 439 (≈ 57.2 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were falling ( -8.0% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has falling ( -59.2% comparing early vs recent averages) .

In the Mountain Ash ward, the main local crime hotspot is near Fernhill. Police recorded 88 crimes here, including 59 violent or public-order offences. All of these hotspots lie within roughly 0.3 miles.