Crime Statistics for Birchgrove, Cardiff, Caerdydd (Cardiff), 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Birchgrove in October 2024. There were a total of 249 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Shoplifting.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Birchgrove, 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	62
Shoplifting	44
Anti Social Behaviour	27
Vehicle Crime	25
Criminal Damage Arson	22
Burglary	21
Public Order	21
Other Theft	13
Bicycle Theft	6
Drugs	5
Other Crime	2
Theft From The Person	1
All Crime	249

Map of street level crime incidents in October 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Birchgrove. 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 Birchgrove

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Pontcanna (1.86 miles)	495
Llandaff North (1.39 miles)	488
Maindy (1.39 miles)	452
Cyncoed (1.24 miles)	282
Birchgrove	249
Heath (0.88 miles)	232
Rhydypennau (1.53 miles)	190
Pantmawr (1.39 miles)	152
Rhiwbina (0.88 miles)	134
Coryton (1.39 miles)	66

Where are the most violent places near Birchgrove?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Cyncoed	117
Pontcanna	113
Llandaff North	112
Maindy	102
Rhydypennau	99
Pantmawr	92
Heath	72
Birchgrove	62
Coryton	35
Rhiwbina	31

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

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 Birchgrove 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 Birchgrove compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Birchgrove and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Birchgrove is ranked #5.

#	Ward	Score
1	Caerau	98
2	Llandaff North	98
3	Fairwater	97
4	Gabalfa	97
5	Whitchurch and Tongwynlais	96
6	Llandaff	96
7	Heath	95
8	Llanishen	95
9	Rhiwbina	95
10	Cyncoed	95
11	Radyr	94

Which road in Birchgrove has the highest level of crime?

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