Crime Statistics for Cardiff, , 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Cardiff in October 2024. There were a total of 1162 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	372
Shoplifting	182
Public Order	139
Vehicle Crime	130
Criminal Damage Arson	69
Other Theft	63
Drugs	51
Anti Social Behaviour	33
Theft From The Person	31
Burglary	25
Other Crime	19
Bicycle Theft	17
Robbery	16
Possession Of Weapons	15
All Crime	1162

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 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
Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal (0.06 miles)	1726
Blackweir (0.88 miles)	1642
Splott (0.62 miles)	1179
Caerdydd (Cardiff)	1170
Cardiff	976
Cathays (0.62 miles)	961
Cathays Park (0.62 miles)	665
Pontcanna (1.39 miles)	495
Butetown (1.24 miles)	480
Canton (1.24 miles)	341

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
Blackweir	840
Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal	571
Cathays	538
Cardiff	372
Cathays Park	364
Splott	345
Caerdydd (Cardiff)	332
Butetown	175
Pontcanna	113
Canton	71

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.