Crime in Cardiff
Thinking about Cardiff? This is the recent street-level crime recorded around the centre of Cardiff, Cardiff, straight from the police and grouped by category.
Counts show where crimes were recorded, not how likely you are to be affected — a busy city centre always shows more than the quieter streets around it. To check a specific area, run its postcode through the crime checker. Comparing nearby? Try bristol, bath, swindon too.
Last updated: August 2026
Recorded crime near Cardiff centre
1,374crimes recorded in September 2026
- Violence & sexual offences 374
- Shoplifting 270
- Anti-social behaviour 147
- Public order 136
- 10 other categories 447
Every category
- Violence & sexual offences374
- Shoplifting270
- Anti-social behaviour147
- Public order136
- Vehicle crime129
- Criminal damage & arson72
- Other theft68
- Burglary38
- Drugs36
- Bicycle theft34
- Robbery21
- Theft from the person19
- Other crime16
- Possession of weapons14
This is the recorded crime around the centre of Cardiff. For a specific neighbourhood, open the crime checker and enter the postcode to centre the results there — with how to read the numbers and where the data comes from.
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Common questions
- Is Cardiff a safe place to live?
- No single number answers that. The figures here show recorded crime near the centre of Cardiff for the latest month available. For the areas you're actually considering, compare a few specific postcodes in the crime checker.
- Why is the Cardiff crime data a couple of months old?
- Police forces publish to data.police.uk about two to three months in arrears, and it updates monthly, so the latest full month is always slightly behind. We label the month shown.
- Does this cover the whole of Cardiff?
- It's the crime recorded within about a mile of the centre of Cardiff. For a specific neighbourhood, enter its postcode in the crime checker to centre the results there.