Total Crime Rate
172.4 per 1,000
All offences · May 2025 - Apr 2026Violent Crime Rate
79.3 per 1,000
May 2025 - Apr 2026Ffordd Ysgol area has the 15th highest crime rate of 64 local areas in Aberavon , and the 48th highest crime rate of 479 local areas in Neath Port Talbot .
Crime levels at this postcode are much higher than in the adjoining streets, suggesting that most neighbouring areas are relatively safer than this one.
The overall crime rate in the area around Ffordd Ysgol (SA12 6TP) in the last 12 months was 172.4 per 1,000 residents and was 23.6% higher than the Aberavon average (139.5 per 1,000 residents). In the last 12 months, this area’s most reported crimes were Violence and sexual offences with 19 offences recorded. The least common crime was Drugs with 1 case , unchanged from 2025. The fastest-growing crime category was Other theft ( 33.3% YoY). The sharpest decline was Public order ( -42.9% YoY).
Violent crimes totalled 23 (≈ 79.3 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were falling ( -20.7% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has falling ( -72.1% comparing early vs recent averages) .
In the area around Ffordd Ysgol (SA12 6TP), the highest concentration of overall crime is near Morrison Court, where police recorded 31 incidents. Violent and public-order offences occur most often near Farmfield Avenue (21 offences). Both locations lie within roughly 0.3 miles of this postcode area.
View Crime In Sandfields East| Month | Crime | Location* | Last Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Parking Area | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Farmfield Avenue | — |
| Apr 2026 | Public order | Abbeyville Court | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Abbeyville Court | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Other crime | Abbeyville Court | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Heol Bevin | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Public order | Heol Bevin | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Other theft | Heol Bevin | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Heol Bevin | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Heol Bevin | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Farmfield Avenue | — |
| Apr 2026 | Drugs | Lorraine Close | Awaiting court outcome |
| Apr 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | Heol Bevin | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Farmfield Avenue | — |
| Apr 2026 | Public order | Farmfield Avenue | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Farmfield Avenue | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Cove Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Heol Bevin | — |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Farmfield Avenue | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Farmfield Avenue | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Berrylands | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Morrison Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Lorraine Close | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Morrison Crescent | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Ffordd Ysgol | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Public order | Morrison Court | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Dalton Road | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Owen'S Place | — |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Dalton Road | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Swn-Y-Mor | — |
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