Crime Statistics for Bwlch-y-cwm, Cardiff, Caerdydd (Cardiff), 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Bwlch-y-cwm in September 2024. There were a total of 21 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Public Order.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Bwlch-y-cwm, this category is usually the largest in any urban area. This is partly because 'Violent Crime' covers so many offences compared to say Burglary

Crime Category	Incidents
Violent Crime	12
Public Order	3
Other Theft	2
Criminal Damage Arson	1
Anti Social Behaviour	1
Vehicle Crime	1
Other Crime	1
All Crime	21

Map of street level crime incidents in September 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Bwlch-y-cwm. This map shows if incidents are evenly distributed over the district or if there are hot spots in certain streets or areas.

Where Police data is not specific to an address for privacy reasons, most roads are represented by 1 to 2 markers or clusters. However, this should be enough to ascertain if the road you live in or are thinking of moving to, is a crime hot spot. The only exception could be where there is a large cluster of a single crime category on a street, as this could but not necessarily be related to multiple incidents at one address.

Crime incidents in neighbouring areas to Bwlch-y-cwm

We've taken the ten nearest places to Bwlch-y-cwm and ranked them by the number of crime incidents in each. This should allow you to see if Bwlch-y-cwm has more crime than other surrounding areas.

Location	Crime Incidents
Rhiwbina (1.39 miles)	210
Caerffili (Caerphilly) (1.96 miles)	192
Coryton (1.24 miles)	163
Pantmawr (1.24 miles)	118
Watford Park (1.86 miles)	54
Tongwynlais (0.88 miles)	45
Ty Rhiw (1.24 miles)	44
Taffs Well (1.24 miles)	44
Bwlch-y-cwm	21
Morganstown (1.75 miles)	13

Where are the most violent places near Bwlch-y-cwm?

The category of crime that most concerns people is violent crime. We have taken the ten nearest place to Bwlch-y-cwm and ranked them according to the number of violent incidents in the 'best fit' Policing neighbourhood.

Location	Violent Incidents
Caerffili (Caerphilly)	78
Rhiwbina	62
Coryton	54
Pantmawr	52
Taffs Well	25
Tongwynlais	23
Ty Rhiw	18
Watford Park	17
Bwlch-y-cwm	12
Morganstown	6

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Bwlch-y-cwm?

Every two years the government publishes the Index of Multiple Deprivation. One of those domains is crime, more precisely, how likely you are to be the victim of a what is known as 'personal crime', such as muggings or burglary. The governemnt publish these statitsics down to the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) or in simple geographic terms, a few roads. These statistics are also published on a ward level as an average of the LSOAs in that area. We have taken the average rank and converted it into a more accessble form, a score out of 100. Where the higher the score, the more likely you are in Bwlch-y-cwm to be a victim of personal crime. Note that the following score has been generated from the 2019 statistics. At the time of writing, these have not been updated by the government during and since the COVID 19 pandemic.

How does crime in Bwlch-y-cwm compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Bwlch-y-cwm and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Bwlch-y-cwm is ranked #9.

#	Ward	Score
1	Morgan Jones	98
2	Llandaff North	98
3	St. Martins	97
4	Whitchurch and Tongwynlais	96
5	Penyrheol	96
6	Ton-teg	96
7	Taffs Well	96
8	Rhiwbina	95
9	Pentyrch	95
10	Lisvane	95
11	Radyr	94

Which road in Bwlch-y-cwm has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Bwlch-y-cwm with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around this marker.