Crime Statistics for Morriston, Swansea, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Morriston in August 2024. There were a total of 469 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 Morriston, 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	151
Anti Social Behaviour	70
Criminal Damage Arson	60
Public Order	54
Other Theft	40
Vehicle Crime	34
Drugs	16
Burglary	14
Other Crime	12
Shoplifting	10
Possession Of Weapons	4
Robbery	2
Bicycle Theft	2
All Crime	469

Map of street level crime incidents in August 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Morriston. 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 Morriston

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Morriston	450
Graig Trewyddfa (0.62 miles)	324
Clase (0.88 miles)	302
Cwmrhydyceirw (0.62 miles)	262
Penlan (1.75 miles)	258
Tirdeunaw (0.88 miles)	219
Tircanol (0.62 miles)	205
Heol-ddu (1.24 miles)	128
Heol Las (1.86 miles)	89
Tai’r-ysgol (1.96 miles)	86

Where are the most violent places near Morriston?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Morriston	151
Graig Trewyddfa	140
Penlan	129
Clase	114
Cwmrhydyceirw	103
Tirdeunaw	85
Tircanol	80
Heol-ddu	43
Heol Las	31
Tai’r-ysgol	30

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

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 Morriston 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 Morriston compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Morriston and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Morriston is ranked #5.

#	Ward	Score
1	Castle	99
2	Penderry	99
3	Townhill	98
4	Landore	98
5	Morriston	98
6	Bonymaen	97
7	Mynyddbach	97
8	Cwmbwrla	97
9	Llansamlet	97
10	Clydach	96
11	Llangyfelach	96

Which road in Morriston has the highest level of crime?

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