Crime Statistics for Fairwater, Cardiff, Cardiff, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Fairwater in September 2024. There were a total of 251 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Fairwater, 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	115
Anti Social Behaviour	39
Public Order	21
Criminal Damage Arson	19
Shoplifting	15
Vehicle Crime	11
Burglary	9
Other Theft	7
Drugs	4
Other Crime	4
Bicycle Theft	3
Possession Of Weapons	2
Robbery	1
Theft From The Person	1
All Crime	251

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 Fairwater. 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 Fairwater

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Llandaff North (1.39 miles)	356
Canton (1.96 miles)	343
Llandaff (1.24 miles)	337
Pontcanna (1.86 miles)	328
Fairwater	251
Ely (0.62 miles)	232
Caerau (1.24 miles)	176
Cyntwell (1.39 miles)	148
Drope (1.75 miles)	62
Ely (1.76 miles)	10

Where are the most violent places near Fairwater?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Llandaff	156
Llandaff North	151
Fairwater	115
Canton	91
Caerau	91
Pontcanna	87
Cyntwell	76
Drope	27
Ely	8

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Fairwater?

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 Fairwater 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 Fairwater compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Fairwater and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Residents in Fairwater have the highest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Radyr.

#	Ward	Score
1	Ely	98
2	Caerau	98
3	Llandaff North	98
4	Fairwater	97
5	Canton	97
6	Gabalfa	97
7	Whitchurch and Tongwynlais	96
8	Peterston-super-Ely	96
9	Llandaff	96
10	Dinas Powys	96
11	Radyr	94

Which road in Fairwater has the highest level of crime?

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