Crime Statistics for Penlan, Swansea, Swansea, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Penlan in October 2024. There were a total of 970 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 Penlan, 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	356
Anti Social Behaviour	124
Shoplifting	116
Public Order	92
Criminal Damage Arson	76
Other Theft	60
Vehicle Crime	52
Drugs	44
Other Crime	18
Burglary	16
Possession Of Weapons	8
Bicycle Theft	4
Theft From The Person	4
All Crime	970

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 Penlan. 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 Penlan

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Mayhill (1.24 miles)	644
Penlan	486
Abertawe (Swansea) (1.24 miles)	439
Cwmdu (1.24 miles)	439
Tirdeunaw (0.88 miles)	394
Landore (0.88 miles)	366
Manselton (0.88 miles)	366
Clase (0.88 miles)	215
Port Mead (0.62 miles)	189
Gendros (0.88 miles)	186

Where are the most violent places near Penlan?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Penlan	356
Mayhill	296
Abertawe (Swansea)	196
Cwmdu	165
Landore	161
Manselton	161
Tirdeunaw	141
Clase	77
Gendros	69
Port Mead	57

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

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 Penlan 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 Penlan compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Penlan and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Penlan is ranked #2.

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

Which road in Penlan has the highest level of crime?

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