Crime Statistics for Penarth, The Vale Of Glamorgan, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Penarth in September 2024. There were a total of 120 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 Penarth, 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	33
Anti Social Behaviour	21
Vehicle Crime	17
Criminal Damage Arson	11
Other Theft	8
Public Order	8
Shoplifting	7
Burglary	5
Bicycle Theft	4
Other Crime	4
Robbery	1
Possession Of Weapons	1
All Crime	120

Map of street level crime incidents in September 2024

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

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

Location	Crime Incidents
Butetown (1.86 miles)	488
Cogan (0.88 miles)	331
Grangetown (1.96 miles)	226
Penarth	120
Llandochau (1.75 miles)	71
Lower Penarth (0.62 miles)	38
Cog (2.24 miles)	15
Cosmeston (1.24 miles)	9
Lavernock (1.86 miles)	7
Leckwith (2.63 miles)	2

Where are the most violent places near Penarth?

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

Location	Violent Incidents
Cogan	192
Butetown	181
Grangetown	73
Penarth	33
Llandochau	26
Cog	9
Lower Penarth	8
Leckwith	1
Cosmeston	0
Lavernock	0

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

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 Penarth 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 Penarth compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Penarth and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Penarth is ranked #9.

#	Ward	Score
1	Splott	99
2	Riverside	98
3	Llandough	98
4	Cadoc	98
5	Butetown	98
6	Grangetown	98
7	St. Augustine's	96
8	Cornerswell	96
9	Stanwell	95
10	Plymouth	94
11	Sully	94

Which road in Penarth has the highest level of crime?

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