Crime Statistics for Blackweir, Cardiff, Cardiff, 2024

Is Blackweir rough? This is our street level crime rate statistics overview for December 2024. There were a total of 781 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Shoplifting.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Blackweir, 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 CategoryIncidents
Violent Crime238
Shoplifting125
Anti Social Behaviour86
Public Order65
Other Theft54
Vehicle Crime49
Burglary38
Criminal Damage Arson36
Bicycle Theft32
Drugs22
Theft From The Person21
Possession Of Weapons6
Robbery6
Other Crime3
All Crime781

Map of street level crime incidents in December 2024

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

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

LocationCrime Incidents
Cardiff (0.88 miles)2168
Cathays (0.62 miles)1798
Cathays Park (0.62 miles)1596
Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal (0.84 miles)1130
Caerdydd (Cardiff) (0.88 miles)934
Blackweir781
Pontcanna (0.62 miles)462
Llandaff (1.24 miles)422
Maindy (0.62 miles)381
Canton (0.88 miles)241

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Where are the most violent places near Blackweir?

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

LocationViolent Incidents
Cardiff710
Cathays614
Caerdydd (Cardiff)520
Cathays Park513
Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal367
Blackweir238
Llandaff144
Pontcanna139
Canton98
Maindy90

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

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 Blackweir 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 Blackweir compare to surrounding wards?

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

#WardScore
1Adamsdown99
2Riverside98
3Plasnewydd98
4Caerau98
5Grangetown98
6Fairwater97
7Canton97
8Cathays97
9Gabalfa97
10Llandaff96
11Heath95

Which road in Blackweir has the highest level of crime?

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

Last updated: December 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
Published under the Open Government Licence v3.0

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