Crime Statistics for Fforest-fach, Waunarlwydd, Swansea, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Fforest-fach in October 2024. There were a total of 98 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 Fforest-fach, 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	34
Shoplifting	16
Anti Social Behaviour	12
Criminal Damage Arson	10
Public Order	9
Other Theft	7
Theft From The Person	3
Burglary	3
Vehicle Crime	2
Other Crime	1
Possession Of Weapons	1
All Crime	98

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 Fforest-fach. 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 Fforest-fach

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Mayhill (1.39 miles)	644
Abertawe (Swansea) (1.39 miles)	439
Cwmdu (1.39 miles)	439
Ty-coch (1.24 miles)	192
Port Mead (0.88 miles)	189
Gendros (0.62 miles)	186
Cockett (0.62 miles)	118
Fforest-fach	98
Cadle (1.24 miles)	85
Waunarlwydd (1.24 miles)	27

Where are the most violent places near Fforest-fach?

The category of crime that most concerns people is violent crime. We have taken the ten nearest place to Fforest-fach 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
Ty-coch	93
Gendros	69
Port Mead	57
Cockett	51
Fforest-fach	34
Cadle	23
Waunarlwydd	18

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Fforest-fach?

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 Fforest-fach 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 Fforest-fach compare to surrounding wards?

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

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

Which road in Fforest-fach has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Fforest-fach with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around Lee Court.