Crime Statistics for Garden Village, Gorseinon, Swansea, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Garden Village in October 2024. There were a total of 43 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Criminal Damage Arson.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Garden Village, 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	20
Criminal Damage Arson	7
Anti Social Behaviour	6
Public Order	3
Shoplifting	3
Other Crime	2
Drugs	2
All Crime	43

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 Garden Village. 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 Garden Village

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Fforest-fach (2.24 miles)	98
Cadle (1.86 miles)	85
Gorseinon (0.88 miles)	73
Loughor (1.39 miles)	46
Garden Village	43
Dunvant (2.48 miles)	42
Bach-y-gwreiddyn (1.96 miles)	33
Penllergaer (1.39 miles)	32
Gowerton (0.62 miles)	31
Waunarlwydd (1.39 miles)	27

Where are the most violent places near Garden Village?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Fforest-fach	34
Gorseinon	25
Dunvant	24
Cadle	23
Garden Village	20
Waunarlwydd	18
Penllergaer	17
Gowerton	14
Loughor	12
Bach-y-gwreiddyn	12

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

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 Garden Village 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 Garden Village compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Garden Village and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Residents in Garden Village have the highest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Killay North.

#	Ward	Score
1	Cockett	98
2	Gorseinon	98
3	Lower Loughor	97
4	Penyrheol	96
5	Llangyfelach	96
6	Gowerton	95
7	Kingsbridge	95
8	Upper Loughor	95
9	Penllergaer	95
10	Dunvant	94
11	Killay North	94

Which road in Garden Village has the highest level of crime?

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