Total Crime Rate
108.9 per 1,000
All offences · May 2025 - Apr 2026Violent Crime Rate
69.3 per 1,000
May 2025 - Apr 2026Lovedon Road area has the 14th highest crime rate of 28 local areas in Aberystwyth Morfa a Glais , and the 63rd highest crime rate of 235 local areas in Ceredigion .
Neighbouring streets tend to have noticeably higher crime levels than this postcode. Crime here is lower than the average for the surrounding output areas.
The overall crime rate in the area around Lovedon Road (SY23 2ED) in the last 12 months was 108.9 per 1,000 residents and was 33.9% lower than the Aberystwyth Morfa a Glais average (164.7 per 1,000 residents). In the last 12 months, this area’s most reported crimes were Violence and sexual offences with 11 offences recorded. The least common crime was Anti-social behaviour with 1 case , down -50.0% compared to 2025. The fastest-growing crime category was Other theft ( 200.0% YoY). The sharpest decline was Anti-social behaviour ( -50.0% YoY).
Violent crimes totalled 14 (≈ 69.3 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were rising ( 55.6% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has falling ( -70.9% comparing early vs recent averages) .
In the area around Lovedon Road (SY23 2ED), the highest concentration of overall crime is near Ffordd-Y-Mor, where police recorded 80 incidents. Violent and public-order offences occur most often near Alexandra Road (29 offences). Both locations lie within roughly 0.3 miles of this postcode area.
| Month | Crime | Location* | Last Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Shopping Area | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Drugs | Thespian Street | Local resolution |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Poplar Row | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Poplar Row | — |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Portland Street | — |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Morfa Mawr | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Alexandra Road | — |
| Apr 2026 | Other theft | Stryd Y Dollborth | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Chalybeate Street | — |
| Apr 2026 | Public order | Alexandra Road | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Shopping Area | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Thespian Street | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Public order | Castell Brychan | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Ffordd-Y-Mor | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Ffordd-Y-Mor | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Ffordd-Y-Mor | Unable to prosecute suspect |
| Apr 2026 | Other crime | Bus/Coach Station | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Bus/Coach Station | — |
| Apr 2026 | Drugs | Stryd Cambria | Local resolution |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Rhodfa'R Gogledd | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Ffordd-Y-Mor | — |
| Apr 2026 | Other theft | Ffordd-Y-Mor | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Other theft | Ffordd-Y-Mor | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Ffordd-Y-Mor | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Shoplifting | Ffordd-Y-Mor | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Other crime | Poplar Row | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Vehicle crime | Ffordd-Y-Mor | Under investigation |
| Apr 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | Aberystwyth | — |
| Apr 2026 | Public order | Stryd Y Corfforeath | Formal action is not in the public interest |
| Apr 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | Lovedon Road | Investigation complete; no suspect identified |
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