Crime Statistics for Cardiff, , 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Cardiff in September 2024. There were a total of 1258 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 Cardiff, 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	333
Shoplifting	177
Anti Social Behaviour	151
Vehicle Crime	128
Public Order	118
Criminal Damage Arson	81
Other Theft	77
Bicycle Theft	76
Burglary	50
Drugs	28
Other Crime	17
Robbery	11
Theft From The Person	8
Possession Of Weapons	3
All Crime	1258

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 Cardiff. 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 Cardiff

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Cathays (0.62 miles)	2347
Caerdydd (Cardiff)	2127
Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal (0.06 miles)	2116
Blackweir (0.88 miles)	1523
Cardiff	1258
Splott (0.62 miles)	1239
Cathays Park (0.62 miles)	670
Butetown (1.24 miles)	488
Canton (1.24 miles)	343
Pontcanna (1.39 miles)	328

Where are the most violent places near Cardiff?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal	635
Caerdydd (Cardiff)	631
Cathays	611
Cathays Park	399
Blackweir	394
Cardiff	333
Splott	332
Butetown	181
Canton	91
Pontcanna	87

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

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 Cardiff 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 Cardiff compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Cardiff and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Cardiff is ranked #9.

#	Ward	Score
1	Adamsdown	99
2	Splott	99
3	Riverside	98
4	Plasnewydd	98
5	Llandough	98
6	Butetown	98
7	Grangetown	98
8	Canton	97
9	Cathays	97
10	Gabalfa	97
11	Llandaff	96

Which road in Cardiff has the highest level of crime?

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