Crime Statistics for Townhill, Swansea, Swansea, 2025

Is Townhill rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for January 2025. There were a total of 355 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Public Order.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Townhill, 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	136
Public Order	36
Criminal Damage Arson	34
Anti Social Behaviour	32
Drugs	32
Shoplifting	24
Other Theft	20
Vehicle Crime	18
Other Crime	15
Burglary	6
Bicycle Theft	2
All Crime	355

Map of street level crime incidents in January 2025

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Mayhill (0.88 miles)	856
Abertawe (Swansea) (0.88 miles)	428
Cwmdu (0.88 miles)	395
Townhill	339
Cwm Gwyn	210
Uplands (0.62 miles)	124
Brynmill (0.62 miles)	124
Cockett (0.88 miles)	76
Ty-coch (0.62 miles)	73
Carnglas (1.24 miles)	43

Where are the most violent places near Townhill?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Mayhill	651
Cwmdu	186
Abertawe (Swansea)	164
Townhill	136
Cwm Gwyn	83
Cockett	51
Uplands	48
Brynmill	48
Ty-coch	34
Carnglas	21

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

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 Townhill 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 Townhill compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Townhill and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Townhill is ranked #6.

#	Ward	Score
1	Castle	99
2	Penderry	99
3	Townhill	98
4	Cwmbwrla	97
5	Uplands	96
6	Sketty	95
7	Killay South	94
8	Dunvant	94
9	Fairwood	94
10	Mayals	94
11	Killay North	94

Which road in Townhill has the highest level of crime?

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