Crime Statistics for Heath, Cardiff, Cardiff, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Heath in August 2024. There were a total of 260 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Shoplifting, followed by Violent Crime.

Crime Category	Incidents
Shoplifting	63
Violent Crime	59
Vehicle Crime	27
Anti Social Behaviour	25
Public Order	24
Criminal Damage Arson	15
Other Theft	15
Burglary	11
Bicycle Theft	8
Other Crime	6
Drugs	4
Possession Of Weapons	3
All Crime	260

Map of street level crime incidents in August 2024

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Cathays (1.39 miles)	2347
Blackweir (1.24 miles)	1523
Maindy (0.62 miles)	454
Pontcanna (1.39 miles)	303
Heath	260
Llandaff North (1.39 miles)	255
Cyncoed (0.88 miles)	255
Birchgrove (0.88 miles)	237
Rhydypennau (1.32 miles)	148
Rhiwbina (1.75 miles)	131

Where are the most violent places near Heath?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Cathays	611
Blackweir	394
Cyncoed	112
Maindy	110
Pontcanna	90
Llandaff North	63
Heath	59
Birchgrove	58
Rhydypennau	42
Rhiwbina	32

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

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 Heath 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 Heath compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Heath and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Heath is ranked #6.

#	Ward	Score
1	Adamsdown	99
2	Plasnewydd	98
3	Llandaff North	98
4	Canton	97
5	Cathays	97
6	Gabalfa	97
7	Whitchurch and Tongwynlais	96
8	Llandaff	96
9	Heath	95
10	Rhiwbina	95
11	Cyncoed	95

Which road in Heath has the highest level of crime?

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