Ward safety · Cardiff · data through August 2026

How safe is your Cardiff ward?

SafeRoute scores every Cardiff ward 0–100 from street-level incidents reported to South Wales Police — severity-weighted, within 1 km of each ward's centre, normalised against Cardiff. Higher is safer. The same data powers the SafeRoute app's crime-aware walking routes.

These figures describe reported crime around each ward's centre — they are informational, not a judgment of any community. Cardiff median index: 58/100.

All 28 Cardiff wards, safest first

Methodology

Each street-level incident published by South Wales Police is weighted by severity — violence counts for more than shoplifting. For every ward we sum weighted incidents within 1 km of its centre, and normalise against Cardiff's own rates onto a 0–100 index, higher = safer. Boundaries are the Cardiff council wards from the ONS ward set. The scale is calibrated to Cardiff and cannot be read against another city's number — a Cardiff 55 and a London 55 both mean “typical for this city”, not the same amount of crime. data.police.uk publishes one calendar month at a time, so these pages describe a single month rather than a year. Cardiff is the thinnest city published here — a typical ward sees about 126 incidents a month against inner London's 476 — so these figures move more from month to month than any other city's, and a small difference between two neighbouring wards is not meaningful. Where a ward is mostly farmland rather than town its page says so, because an empty circle reads as a quiet street when it is really no street at all. data.police.uk does not publish incident times, so time-of-day patterns are not shown. Pages regenerate as new data is published.

The index compares areas within Cardiff. It is not comparable between cities: each police force publishes a different set of offences over a different period — Cardiff's figures cannot be read against another city's on the same 0–100 scale.