Crime Statistics for Rhydypennau, Cardiff, Cardiff, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Rhydypennau in September 2024. There were a total of 159 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Rhydypennau, 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	49
Anti Social Behaviour	22
Vehicle Crime	15
Public Order	14
Shoplifting	13
Criminal Damage Arson	11
Other Theft	9
Other Crime	8
Burglary	7
Bicycle Theft	5
Drugs	3
Robbery	1
Theft From The Person	1
Possession Of Weapons	1
All Crime	159

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 Rhydypennau. 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 Rhydypennau

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Cathays (2.25 miles)	2347
Blackweir (2.4 miles)	1523
Heath (1.32 miles)	528
Maindy (1.83 miles)	491
Rumney (1.89 miles)	333
Cyncoed (0.45 miles)	255
Birchgrove (1.53 miles)	237
Rhiwbina (2.12 miles)	210
Rhydypennau	159
Lisvane (1.51 miles)	57

Where are the most violent places near Rhydypennau?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Cathays	611
Blackweir	394
Heath	137
Rumney	128
Cyncoed	112
Maindy	109
Rhiwbina	62
Birchgrove	58
Rhydypennau	49
Lisvane	34

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

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 Rhydypennau 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 Rhydypennau compare to surrounding wards?

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

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

Which road in Rhydypennau has the highest level of crime?

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