Crime Statistics for Lower Sketty, Swansea, Swansea, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Lower Sketty in October 2024. There were a total of 85 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 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime28
Anti Social Behaviour19
Shoplifting12
Public Order10
Criminal Damage Arson6
Other Theft4
Drugs4
Bicycle Theft2
All Crime85

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 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.

LocationCrime Incidents
Cwm Gwyn (1.75 miles)472
Ty-coch (1.39 miles)192
Uplands (1.39 miles)136
Brynmill (1.39 miles)130
Carnglas (1.24 miles)85
Lower Sketty81
Black Pill (0.62 miles)50
Killay (1.39 miles)47
Mayals (0.88 miles)47
Dunvant (1.75 miles)42

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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.

LocationViolent Incidents
Cwm Gwyn162
Ty-coch93
Carnglas42
Brynmill41
Uplands40
Lower Sketty28
Killay27
Dunvant24
Mayals17
Black Pill16

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.

#WardScore
1Uplands96
2Oystermouth96
3West Cross95
4Sketty95
5Newton94
6Killay South94
7Dunvant94
8Fairwood94
9Mayals94
10Killay North94
11Pennard94

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.

Last updated: October 2024
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