Crime Statistics for Cogan, Llandough, The Vale of Glamorgan, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Cogan in October 2024. There were a total of 282 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 Cogan, 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	128
Anti Social Behaviour	40
Public Order	40
Criminal Damage Arson	22
Shoplifting	16
Other Theft	12
Burglary	10
Vehicle Crime	10
Other Crime	2
Bicycle Theft	2
All Crime	282

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 Cogan. 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 Cogan

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal (2.55 miles)	1726
Cathays Park (2.48 miles)	665
Butetown (1.39 miles)	480
Cogan	263
Grangetown (1.24 miles)	193
Penarth (0.88 miles)	109
Llandochau (0.88 miles)	55
Lower Penarth (1.39 miles)	36
Cosmeston (1.96 miles)	5
Leckwith (1.75 miles)	2

Where are the most violent places near Cogan?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal	571
Cathays Park	364
Butetown	175
Cogan	128
Grangetown	73
Penarth	46
Llandochau	28
Lower Penarth	15
Cosmeston	1
Leckwith	0

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

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 Cogan 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 Cogan compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Cogan and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Cogan is ranked #8.

#	Ward	Score
1	Riverside	98
2	Llandough	98
3	Butetown	98
4	Grangetown	98
5	Canton	97
6	St. Augustine's	96
7	Dinas Powys	96
8	Cornerswell	96
9	Stanwell	95
10	Plymouth	94
11	Sully	94

Which road in Cogan has the highest level of crime?

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