Crime Statistics for Cwmdu, Swansea, Swansea, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Cwmdu in September 2024. There were a total of 698 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 Cwmdu, 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	263
Anti Social Behaviour	76
Public Order	71
Shoplifting	66
Criminal Damage Arson	60
Drugs	50
Other Theft	42
Vehicle Crime	28
Other Crime	14
Theft From The Person	8
Bicycle Theft	6
Possession Of Weapons	6
Burglary	6
Robbery	2
All Crime	698

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 Cwmdu. 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 Cwmdu

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Hafod (1.24 miles)	929
Cwmdu	632
Abertawe (Swansea)	375
Mayhill	375
Landore (0.88 miles)	312
Manselton (0.88 miles)	312
Townhill (0.88 miles)	293
Cwm Gwyn (0.88 miles)	179
Gendros (0.88 miles)	139
Cockett (1.24 miles)	66

Where are the most violent places near Cwmdu?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Hafod	376
Cwmdu	263
Abertawe (Swansea)	150
Mayhill	150
Townhill	140
Landore	122
Manselton	122
Cwm Gwyn	77
Gendros	50
Cockett	29

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

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 Cwmdu 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 Cwmdu compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Cwmdu and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Cwmdu is ranked #3.

#	Ward	Score
1	Castle	99
2	Penderry	99
3	Townhill	98
4	Landore	98
5	St. Thomas	97
6	Bonymaen	97
7	Cwmbwrla	97
8	Uplands	96
9	Sketty	95
10	Killay South	94
11	Killay North	94

Which road in Cwmdu has the highest level of crime?

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