Crime Statistics for St Mellons, Cardiff, Cardiff, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for St Mellons in October 2024. There were a total of 356 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Criminal Damage Arson.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in St Mellons, 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	133
Criminal Damage Arson	51
Anti Social Behaviour	36
Other Theft	33
Public Order	30
Other Crime	18
Shoplifting	17
Vehicle Crime	15
Burglary	11
Drugs	9
Bicycle Theft	3
All Crime	356

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 St Mellons. 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 St Mellons

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

Location	Crime Incidents
St Mellons	241
Rumney (1.75 miles)	217
Rhydypennau (2.86 miles)	190
Began (1.39 miles)	169
Rhymney (1.21 miles)	86
Marshfield (1.39 miles)	62
Castleton (1.75 miles)	29
Newton (1.86 miles)	18
Coedkernew (2.77 miles)	11
Blacktown (1.86 miles)	11

Where are the most violent places near St Mellons?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
St Mellons	133
Rhydypennau	99
Rumney	62
Began	62
Rhymney	25
Marshfield	17
Castleton	11
Coedkernew	6
Blacktown	5
Newton	3

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

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 St Mellons 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 St Mellons compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to St Mellons and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.St Mellons is ranked #4.

#	Ward	Score
1	Rumney	98
2	St. James	98
3	Trowbridge	98
4	Llanrumney	98
5	Plasnewydd	98
6	Marshfield	97
7	Pontprennau/Old St. Mellons	97
8	Pentwyn	96
9	Penylan	96
10	Llanishen	95
11	Cyncoed	95

Which road in St Mellons has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in St Mellons with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around Mount Pleasant Lane.