Crime Statistics for Rumney, Cardiff, Cardiff, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Rumney in October 2024. There were a total of 217 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 Rumney, 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	43
Anti Social Behaviour	30
Vehicle Crime	25
Criminal Damage Arson	17
Burglary	15
Other Theft	9
Public Order	9
Other Crime	4
Bicycle Theft	3
All Crime	217

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 Rumney. 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 Rumney

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Splott (2.24 miles)	1179
Cathays (2.24 miles)	961
Maindy (2.56 miles)	452
Cyncoed (1.96 miles)	282
St Mellons (1.75 miles)	241
Heath (2.48 miles)	232
Rumney	217
Rhydypennau (1.89 miles)	190
Began (2.56 miles)	169
Newton (1.39 miles)	18

Where are the most violent places near Rumney?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Cathays	538
Splott	345
St Mellons	133
Cyncoed	117
Maindy	102
Rhydypennau	99
Heath	72
Rumney	62
Began	62
Newton	3

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

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 Rumney 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 Rumney compare to surrounding wards?

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

#	Ward	Score
1	Adamsdown	99
2	Splott	99
3	Rumney	98
4	Trowbridge	98
5	Llanrumney	98
6	Plasnewydd	98
7	Cathays	97
8	Gabalfa	97
9	Pentwyn	96
10	Penylan	96
11	Cyncoed	95

Which road in Rumney has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Rumney with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around Pen-y-lan Place.