The neighbourhoods in Wales where the most crimes are committed have been revealed - and you can see how your area compares with an interactive map. We've also put together a list of the neighbourhoods with the highest crime rates in each area.
Last year, more crimes were committed in one Cardiff neighbourhood than anywhere else in Wales. Cathays South & Bute Park saw 593 crimes committed per 1,000 residents, the highest rate in Wales and the 24th highest across all neighbourhoods in England and Wales (excluding Manchester, where the data could not be included).
There were 517 reports of bikes being stolen in Cathays South & Bute Park last year alone, the highest in all of England and Wales. The area also suffered the highest rates of burglary, criminal damage and arson, shoplifting and theft in Wales.
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One Swansea neighbourhood had the second-highest crime rate in Wales - Central Swansea, with 472 crimes per 1,000 people, significantly ahead of the next-highest (Cockett, with 137). Central Swansea also has Wales' highest rates of anti-social behaviour.
Newport’s Stow Hill neighbourhood has more drug crime, weapons possession offences, and public order offences than anywhere else in Wales, along with our nation’s third-highest crime rate overall. Rhyl North has the highest rates of violence and sexual offences in Wales and is fourth overall for crime.
Meanwhile, the safest place to live in Wales was Killay in Swansea, where there were just 101 crimes committed all of last year, the equivalent of 20 for every 1,000 people in the area. The next four safest were also in Swansea (Mayals & Bishopston, West Gower, Dunvant & Upper Killay and Llanmorlais & Three Crosses).
You can use this interactive tool to search for your neighbourhood. If you click on an area, the tool will show you how the crime rate there compares to the England and Wales average.
Diana Fawcett, chief executive at the charity Victim Support, said: "Around one in five of us will become a victim of crime each year and the impact can be devastating. From disturbing people’s basic sense of safety and security, to turning lives upside down.
"It is important that police forces are properly resourced and funded in their efforts to tackle crime and promote public safety."
These are the neighbourhoods with the highest crime rate in their areas (crimes per 1,000 people last year):
- Blaenau Gwent: Tredegar & Georgetown (153)
- Bridgend: Central Bridgend (206)
Caerphilly: Blackwood (151)
- Cardiff: Cathays South & Bute Park (593)
- Carmarthenshire: Carmarthen South & Llangynnwr (271)
- Ceredigion: Aberystwyth North (244)
- Conwy: Colwyn Bay North (314)
- Denbighshire Rhyl North (414)
- Flintshire: Shotton & Garden City (175)
- Gwynedd: Bangor City (205)
- Isle of Anglesey: Holyhead (186)
- Merthyr Tydfil: Gelli-deg & Town (292)
- Monmouthshire: Caldicot South (105)
- Neath Port Talbot: Neath Town (205)
- Newport: Stow Hill (469)
- Pembrokeshire: Haverfordwest North (281)
- Powys: Newtown South (204)
- Rhondda Cynon Taf: Pontypridd West (157)
- Swansea: Central Swansea (472)
- The Vale of Glamorgan: Barry East (165)
- Torfaen: Cwmbran (251)
- Wrexham: Hermitage & Whitegate (274)
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