Crime Statistics for Pontcanna, Cardiff, Cardiff, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Pontcanna in September 2024. There were a total of 328 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Vehicle Crime.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Pontcanna, 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime87
Vehicle Crime74
Shoplifting38
Anti Social Behaviour30
Public Order24
Burglary22
Criminal Damage Arson18
Other Theft15
Bicycle Theft10
Other Crime5
Possession Of Weapons2
Theft From The Person1
Robbery1
Drugs1
All Crime328

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 Pontcanna. 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 Pontcanna

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Cathays (1.24 miles)2347
Caerdydd (Cardiff) (1.39 miles)2127
Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal (1.33 miles)2116
Blackweir (0.62 miles)1523
Cathays Park (0.88 miles)670
Maindy (0.88 miles)491
Llandaff North (0.88 miles)356
Canton (0.62 miles)343
Llandaff (0.62 miles)337
Pontcanna328

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of residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Pontcanna?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal635
Caerdydd (Cardiff)631
Cathays611
Cathays Park399
Blackweir394
Llandaff156
Llandaff North151
Maindy109
Canton91
Pontcanna87

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

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 Pontcanna 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 Pontcanna compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Ely98
2Riverside98
3Plasnewydd98
4Caerau98
5Grangetown98
6Fairwater97
7Canton97
8Cathays97
9Gabalfa97
10Llandaff96
11Dinas Powys96

Which road in Pontcanna has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: September 2024
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