Crime Statistics for Cyncoed, Cardiff, Cardiff, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Cyncoed in October 2024. There were a total of 322 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 Cyncoed, 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	117
Vehicle Crime	42
Burglary	34
Anti Social Behaviour	26
Criminal Damage Arson	24
Public Order	23
Other Theft	20
Shoplifting	12
Other Crime	10
Drugs	8
Bicycle Theft	6
All Crime	322

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 Cyncoed. 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 Cyncoed

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Blackweir (1.96 miles)	1642
Cathays (1.86 miles)	961
Maindy (1.39 miles)	452
Cyncoed	282
Birchgrove (1.24 miles)	249
Heath (0.88 miles)	232
Rumney (1.96 miles)	217
Rhydypennau (0.45 miles)	190
Rhiwbina (1.96 miles)	134
Lisvane (1.86 miles)	81

Where are the most violent places near Cyncoed?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Blackweir	840
Cathays	538
Cyncoed	117
Maindy	102
Rhydypennau	99
Heath	72
Birchgrove	62
Rumney	62
Lisvane	59
Rhiwbina	31

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

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 Cyncoed 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 Cyncoed compare to surrounding wards?

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

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

Which road in Cyncoed has the highest level of crime?

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