Recorded crime around Barmouth, the Gwynedd resort on the Mawddach estuary, rose 26% in the newest quarter on the year before. We help hotels, pubs, farms and shops respond with door cover, patrols and CCTV.
Trusted Protection in Barmouth
Barmouth is a coastal resort known for its beach and its striking timber railway viaduct, and its crime figures are small in number but moving upwards. Police.uk recorded 254 offences within a mile across the months with published data, and the latest quarter was 26% higher than the same stretch a year earlier. Violence and anti-social behaviour lead, categories often linked with evenings and busy periods, which is where door supervisors and patrols help most.
Barmouth Business Profile
Gwynedd has 5,520 registered businesses, and agriculture is the largest sector by some distance at 1,255 firms, 22.7% of the total against just 4.5% across Great Britain. Remote farms keep machinery, fuel and livestock where few people pass, so rural mobile patrols and solar CCTV towers with remote monitoring are the most practical protection.
Hospitality is the second largest group, with 750 businesses, and at 13.6% of firms it is roughly double the 6.5% British share. Hotels, cafes and bars in a resort need door supervisors on busy nights and alarm response once they close. SIA-licensed officers we place are BS 7858 vetted, and our 24/7 control room records every GPS book-on and patrol report.
Theatr Y Ddraig is the named theatre within 5km. Should a show draw 200 people or more, Martyn's Law will bring duties once it starts in 2027, and our event team can take on stewarding and entry procedures. What Martyn's Law means for venues.
Sources: Go Security officer network (counts rounded to the nearest 5); ONS UK Business Counts via Nomis; place data © OpenStreetMap contributors. Updated October 2026.
Security Requirements in Barmouth
Barmouth's beach and timber railway viaduct make it a recognisable stop on the Gwynedd coast, served by stations at Barmouth, Llanaber, Morfa Mawddach and Fairbourne. There are no mapped industrial estates or construction sites nearby, and only five pubs and bars within 5km, so security is mainly about hospitality premises, holiday properties and the farms that surround the town.
Services in Barmouth
These services suit Barmouth hotels, pubs, shops, holiday lets and nearby farms.
Security guarding · Mobile patrols · Key holding · Alarm response · Event security · K9 security · CCTV towers · CCTV monitoring · POD intruder alarms
Crime & Security Data
Police.uk shows 254 crimes within a mile of Barmouth for September 2025 to August 2026, with 11 months of data published.
Violence and sexual offences accounted for 109, around 43%. Anti-social behaviour followed at 47, criminal damage and arson at 25, public order at 17 and other theft at 16. Most of these are the kind of incidents that cluster around licensed premises and busy evenings. With the latest quarter up 26%, hospitality businesses have good reason to review door cover and CCTV.
Source: Police.uk open data, street-level crime within ~1 mile, September 2025 to August 2026. Locations are approximate.
Local Policing
North Wales Police's Barmouth team is concentrating on anti-social behaviour, drugs and speeding.
Current neighbourhood priorities:
Source: Police.uk neighbourhoods, the policing team whose area covers Barmouth.
Areas We Cover Near Barmouth
Dolgellau is 7 miles from Barmouth, Tywyn 9 and Harlech 10. Our patrols and event cover reach each of them.
Postcodes We Cover in Barmouth
The 5 postcode districts nearest central Barmouth, covering parts of Gwynedd.
Nearest first. Source: ONS postcode data via postcodes.io. Need another postcode? Check coverage.
Barmouth Security FAQs
Yes, on recent numbers. Comparing the three newest months with the same three a year ago, offences inside a one-mile radius were up 26%. Across the year 254 were recorded, led by violence and sexual offences and anti-social behaviour, categories often linked with evening trade.
Yes. Hospitality is 13.6% of Gwynedd businesses, about double the British share. We supply SIA-licensed door supervisors for busy weekends and events, and switch to alarm response and key holding when premises close.
Agriculture makes up 22.7% of Gwynedd businesses, the largest single sector. Solar CCTV towers need no mains supply and are monitored by an NSI Gold accredited monitoring centre, while rural patrols check yards and outbuildings.
The Barmouth team from North Wales Police lists anti-social behaviour, drugs and speeding. Visible patrols and CCTV at business premises help deter nuisance and give owners evidence to pass on.
We provide event security and stewards for theatres and community events. If capacity reaches 200 or more, Martyn's Law applies; a free walk-round of the venue by one of our team will look at entry, searches and evacuation.
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