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Crime in Cardiff

15,304 crimes were recorded within a mile of the centre of Cardiff between August 2025 to July 2026. South Wales Police logged an outcome for 10,752 of them.

92% of vehicle crime cases here ended with no suspect identified.

Month by month

August 2025July 2026

What was reported, and how it ended

The change compares the most recent six months with the six before them. Cases still under investigation are not counted in the rate.

CategoryRecordedChangeNo suspect identified
Violence and sexual offences4,516up 4%26%
Shoplifting2,311up 16%56%
Anti-social behaviour1,680up 4%n/a
Public order1,514up 11%39%
Vehicle crime1,283up 18%92%
Criminal damage and arson898up 29%70%
Other theft835up 1%79%
Bicycle theft479down 24%92%
Drugs437down 2%10%
Burglary395down 24%77%
Robbery305up 5%52%
Other crime252up 8%26%
Theft from the person242down 6%90%
Possession of weapons157down 20%8%

Where it happens

The source records a crime as being on or near a street rather than at an address, so that nobody can be identified from it. Where a crime happened at a kind of place rather than on a road, it records the kind of place instead, and those entries are marked below. These are the locations that come up most often across the whole 12 months.

Violence and sexual offences

  1. Heol Eglwys Fair289
  2. Parking Areakind of place, not a street269
  3. Nightclubkind of place, not a street231
  4. Heol Y Tollty144
  5. Petrol Stationkind of place, not a street123
  6. Knox Road115
  7. Tresillian Terrace115
  8. Supermarketkind of place, not a street93

Shoplifting

  1. Parking Areakind of place, not a street565
  2. Shopping Areakind of place, not a street216
  3. Ellen Street137
  4. Supermarketkind of place, not a street127
  5. The Hayes112
  6. South Luton Place104
  7. Ann Street98
  8. Strathnairn Street81

Anti-social behaviour

  1. Parking Areakind of place, not a street125
  2. Petrol Stationkind of place, not a street104
  3. Supermarketkind of place, not a street76
  4. Nightclubkind of place, not a street65
  5. Heol Y Tollty55
  6. Moira Terrace43
  7. St John Street39
  8. Heol Eglwys Fair38

Public order

  1. Parking Areakind of place, not a street82
  2. Tresillian Terrace60
  3. Petrol Stationkind of place, not a street59
  4. Nightclubkind of place, not a street51
  5. Supermarketkind of place, not a street51
  6. Heol Eglwys Fair43
  7. Shopping Areakind of place, not a street41
  8. St John Street41

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