Crime Statistics for Lower Sketty, Swansea, Swansea, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Lower Sketty in September 2024. There were a total of 38 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 Lower Sketty, 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	9
Shoplifting	7
Anti Social Behaviour	6
Criminal Damage Arson	5
Public Order	5
Other Theft	3
Burglary	1
Possession Of Weapons	1
Drugs	1
All Crime	38

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 Lower Sketty. 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 Lower Sketty

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Cwm Gwyn (1.75 miles)	179
Carnglas (1.24 miles)	102
Uplands (1.39 miles)	100
Brynmill (1.39 miles)	100
Ty-coch (1.39 miles)	60
Black Pill (0.62 miles)	54
Mayals (0.88 miles)	49
Lower Sketty	38
Killay (1.39 miles)	29
Dunvant (1.75 miles)	14

Where are the most violent places near Lower Sketty?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Carnglas	120
Cwm Gwyn	77
Uplands	41
Brynmill	41
Ty-coch	29
Killay	15
Black Pill	12
Mayals	11
Lower Sketty	9
Dunvant	5

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

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 Lower Sketty 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 Lower Sketty compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Lower Sketty and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Lower Sketty is ranked #9.

#	Ward	Score
1	Uplands	96
2	Oystermouth	96
3	West Cross	95
4	Sketty	95
5	Newton	94
6	Killay South	94
7	Dunvant	94
8	Fairwood	94
9	Mayals	94
10	Killay North	94
11	Pennard	94

Which road in Lower Sketty has the highest level of crime?

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