The line graph illustrates how many burglary, car theft and robbery happened in Newport
city between 2003 and 2012. The units are measured in number of incidents.In terms of
burglary, the number of incidents was just above 3500 in 2003 and peaked in 2004, when
around 3750 incidents took place before falling dramatically to just over 1000 burglaries in
2008. In the following year, this kind of crime increased to just above 1500 and fluctuated
slightly until the end of the given period.
Regarding the number of incidents of car theft, it remained almost the same between 2003
and 2005 at around 3000 and decreased to around 2000 in the next year. Over the next 6
years, the car thefts increased to about 3000. On the other hand, number of robbery
incidents changed slightly during the given time.
Overall, the incidence of burglary and car theft was the highest in 2004, that of robbery was
the highest in 2005. The incidents of burglary and robbery were the lowest in 2008 and
that of car theft were lowest in 2006 At the end of the period, robbery was by far the most
highly-committed crime achieving about 2,750 cases, while robbery still remained as the
least common criminal offence with only around 600 incidents.