Crime Statistics for Cwm Gwyn, Swansea, Swansea, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Cwm Gwyn in October 2024. There were a total of 477 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 Cwm Gwyn, 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	162
Anti Social Behaviour	70
Public Order	50
Criminal Damage Arson	42
Vehicle Crime	41
Shoplifting	32
Other Theft	30
Bicycle Theft	12
Other Crime	10
Burglary	10
Drugs	8
Possession Of Weapons	4
Theft From The Person	4
Robbery	2
All Crime	477

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 Cwm Gwyn. 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 Cwm Gwyn

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Mayhill (0.88 miles)	644
Cwm Gwyn	472
Abertawe (Swansea) (0.88 miles)	439
Cwmdu (0.88 miles)	439
Townhill	248
Ty-coch (0.62 miles)	192
Uplands (0.62 miles)	136
Brynmill (0.62 miles)	130
Cockett (0.88 miles)	118
Carnglas (1.24 miles)	85

Where are the most violent places near Cwm Gwyn?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Mayhill	296
Abertawe (Swansea)	196
Cwmdu	165
Cwm Gwyn	162
Ty-coch	93
Townhill	88
Cockett	51
Carnglas	42
Brynmill	41
Uplands	40

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

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 Cwm Gwyn 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 Cwm Gwyn compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Cwm Gwyn and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Cwm Gwyn is ranked #6.

#	Ward	Score
1	Castle	99
2	Penderry	99
3	Townhill	98
4	Cwmbwrla	97
5	Uplands	96
6	Sketty	95
7	Killay South	94
8	Dunvant	94
9	Fairwood	94
10	Mayals	94
11	Killay North	94

Which road in Cwm Gwyn has the highest level of crime?

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