Crime Statistics for Rhiwbina, Cardiff, Cardiff, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Rhiwbina in September 2024. There were a total of 224 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 Rhiwbina, 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	56
Anti Social Behaviour	24
Criminal Damage Arson	22
Other Theft	14
Public Order	14
Burglary	14
Vehicle Crime	10
Possession Of Weapons	4
Other Crime	3
Theft From The Person	1
All Crime	224

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 Rhiwbina. 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 Rhiwbina

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Heath (1.75 miles)	528
Llandaff North (1.86 miles)	356
Cyncoed (1.96 miles)	255
Birchgrove (0.88 miles)	237
Rhiwbina	210
Coryton (0.62 miles)	163
Pantmawr (0.62 miles)	118
Tongwynlais (1.39 miles)	45
Bwlch-y-cwm (1.39 miles)	21
Morganstown (1.86 miles)	13

Where are the most violent places near Rhiwbina?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Llandaff North	151
Heath	137
Cyncoed	112
Rhiwbina	62
Birchgrove	58
Coryton	54
Pantmawr	52
Tongwynlais	23
Bwlch-y-cwm	12
Morganstown	6

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

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 Rhiwbina 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 Rhiwbina compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Rhiwbina and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Rhiwbina is ranked #7.

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

Which road in Rhiwbina has the highest level of crime?

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