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Recorded crime: South Wales Police 12 months to June 2026
92.6recorded offences per 1,000 residents
Police recorded 125,488 offences in the South Wales Police area in the 12 months to June 2026, down 4.0% (5,278) on the previous 12 months. That is 92.6 per 1,000 residents against 97.4 for England and Wales.
Home Office · data.police.uk street-level crime archive force population: ONS mid-2025 estimate, 1,354,698 Since 2011 Recorded offences per 1,000 residents: Year to June 2012 to Year to June 2026 Coalition Coalition Conservative Conservative Conservative Conservative Conservative Labour Labour 0 50 100 2015 2020 2025 Year to June 2012: 114 per 1,000 residents · 146,785 offences · population mid-2012 Year to June 2013: 96 per 1,000 residents · 123,762 offences · population mid-2013 Year to June 2014: 98.5 per 1,000 residents · 127,258 offences · population mid-2014 Year to June 2015: 100.9 per 1,000 residents · 130,518 offences · population mid-2015 Year to June 2016: 99.6 per 1,000 residents · 129,236 offences · population mid-2016 Year to June 2017: 107.7 per 1,000 residents · 140,173 offences · population mid-2017 Year to June 2018: 107.6 per 1,000 residents · 140,347 offences · population mid-2018 Year to June 2019: 109.9 per 1,000 residents · 143,823 offences · population mid-2019 Year to June 2020: 111.5 per 1,000 residents · 146,729 offences · population mid-2020 Year to June 2021: 115 per 1,000 residents · 151,090 offences · population mid-2021 Year to June 2022: 98.2 per 1,000 residents · 130,793 offences · population mid-2022 Year to June 2023: 97.9 per 1,000 residents · 132,398 offences · population mid-2023 Year to June 2024: 102.3 per 1,000 residents · 138,993 offences · population mid-2024 Year to June 2025: 96.5 per 1,000 residents · 130,766 offences · population mid-2025 Year to June 2026: 92.6 per 1,000 residents · 125,488 offences · population mid-2025
Each year to June, complete years only. Areas are today's boundaries throughout. Shaded bands: governments (see labels) Hover or use arrow keys to read a value Monthly trend Monthly recorded crime: December 2010 to June 2026 Coalition Coalition Conservative Conservative Conservative Conservative Labour Labour 0 5k 10k 15k 2010 2015 2020 2025 December 2010: 11,473 offences January 2011: 13,082 offences February 2011: 12,692 offences March 2011: 14,826 offences April 2011: 14,795 offences May 2011: 11,856 offences June 2011: 13,409 offences July 2011: 14,655 offences August 2011: 14,409 offences September 2011: 11,875 offences October 2011: 13,171 offences November 2011: 11,864 offences December 2011: 11,644 offences January 2012: 11,239 offences February 2012: 11,008 offences March 2012: 12,511 offences April 2012: 11,377 offences May 2012: 12,051 offences June 2012: 10,981 offences July 2012: 11,350 offences August 2012: 11,552 offences September 2012: 10,293 offences October 2012: 11,241 offences November 2012: 10,976 offences December 2012: 9,237 offences January 2013: 9,448 offences February 2013: 9,665 offences March 2013: 9,976 offences April 2013: 9,755 offences May 2013: 9,825 offences June 2013: 10,444 offences July 2013: 11,844 offences August 2013: 10,878 offences September 2013: 10,121 offences October 2013: 10,607 offences November 2013: 10,190 offences December 2013: 9,729 offences January 2014: 9,408 offences February 2014: 8,959 offences March 2014: 10,924 offences April 2014: 10,943 offences May 2014: 11,100 offences June 2014: 12,555 offences July 2014: 12,833 offences August 2014: 11,617 offences September 2014: 12,219 offences October 2014: 11,495 offences November 2014: 10,493 offences December 2014: 9,692 offences January 2015: 9,280 offences February 2015: 8,897 offences March 2015: 10,563 offences April 2015: 11,037 offences May 2015: 10,856 offences June 2015: 11,536 offences July 2015: 11,770 offences August 2015: 11,316 offences September 2015: 10,880 offences October 2015: 11,577 offences November 2015: 9,917 offences December 2015: 9,667 offences January 2016: 9,689 offences February 2016: 9,660 offences March 2016: 11,182 offences April 2016: 10,699 offences May 2016: 11,799 offences June 2016: 11,080 offences July 2016: 11,463 offences August 2016: 11,959 offences September 2016: 11,417 offences October 2016: 12,255 offences November 2016: 11,367 offences December 2016: 10,889 offences January 2017: 10,773 offences February 2017: 10,678 offences March 2017: 12,110 offences April 2017: 12,143 offences May 2017: 12,687 offences June 2017: 12,432 offences July 2017: 12,815 offences August 2017: 12,565 offences September 2017: 11,546 offences October 2017: 12,851 offences November 2017: 11,941 offences December 2017: 10,936 offences January 2018: 10,590 offences February 2018: 10,103 offences March 2018: 10,597 offences April 2018: 11,173 offences May 2018: 12,360 offences June 2018: 12,870 offences July 2018: 14,018 offences August 2018: 12,850 offences September 2018: 11,849 offences October 2018: 12,363 offences November 2018: 11,560 offences December 2018: 10,595 offences January 2019: 11,241 offences February 2019: 11,278 offences March 2019: 11,661 offences April 2019: 11,787 offences May 2019: 12,553 offences June 2019: 12,068 offences July 2019: 13,063 offences August 2019: 12,254 offences September 2019: 11,831 offences October 2019: 12,065 offences November 2019: 11,269 offences December 2019: 10,569 offences January 2020: 11,150 offences February 2020: 10,962 offences March 2020: 10,322 offences April 2020: 14,346 offences May 2020: 15,541 offences June 2020: 13,357 offences July 2020: 13,098 offences August 2020: 12,812 offences September 2020: 12,429 offences October 2020: 13,082 offences November 2020: 12,572 offences December 2020: 11,084 offences January 2021: 12,935 offences February 2021: 12,235 offences March 2021: 14,112 offences April 2021: 12,340 offences May 2021: 12,227 offences June 2021: 12,164 offences July 2021: 11,991 offences August 2021: 11,749 offences September 2021: 11,661 offences October 2021: 11,680 offences November 2021: 11,052 offences December 2021: 9,757 offences January 2022: 10,208 offences February 2022: 9,648 offences March 2022: 10,743 offences April 2022: 10,262 offences May 2022: 11,401 offences June 2022: 10,641 offences July 2022: 10,804 offences August 2022: 11,953 offences September 2022: 10,840 offences October 2022: 11,636 offences November 2022: 10,581 offences December 2022: 9,308 offences January 2023: 10,187 offences February 2023: 10,354 offences March 2023: 11,365 offences April 2023: 11,051 offences May 2023: 12,155 offences June 2023: 12,164 offences July 2023: 11,374 offences August 2023: 12,614 offences September 2023: 12,340 offences October 2023: 12,478 offences November 2023: 10,990 offences December 2023: 10,500 offences January 2024: 10,885 offences February 2024: 10,322 offences March 2024: 11,628 offences April 2024: 11,125 offences May 2024: 12,585 offences June 2024: 12,152 offences July 2024: 11,555 offences August 2024: 11,327 offences September 2024: 10,300 offences October 2024: 10,993 offences November 2024: 10,261 offences December 2024: 9,384 offences January 2025: 10,215 offences February 2025: 10,582 offences March 2025: 11,760 offences April 2025: 11,164 offences May 2025: 11,758 offences June 2025: 11,467 offences July 2025: 11,487 offences August 2025: 11,095 offences September 2025: 9,678 offences October 2025: 11,186 offences November 2025: 10,362 offences December 2025: 9,312 offences January 2026: 9,506 offences February 2026: 9,002 offences March 2026: 10,347 offences April 2026: 10,502 offences May 2026: 11,386 offences June 2026: 11,625 offences
Monthly recorded offences, all categories except anti-social behaviour Shaded bands: governments (see labels) Hover or use arrow keys to read a value Official figures for this area Published in the official force-area tables. These are the figures to cite; archive-based numbers above are built from street-level records and may differ.
Series Latest A year earlier Published Arrests for notifiable offences Year ending March 2025 · arrests 574 — 2026-08-19 Homicides (Homicide Index) Year ending March 2025 · offences 10 13 Year ending March 2025 Offences involving a knife or sharp instrument Year ending March 2026 · offences 645 662 Year ending March 2026 Police officers (full-time equivalent) Year ending March 2026 · officers (FTE) 3,534 3,511 As at 31 March 2026 Police officers per 100,000 population Year ending March 2026 · officers per 100,000 population 259 — As at 31 March 2026 Criminal damage and arson (police-recorded) Year ending March 2026 · offences 9,542 9,784 Year ending March 2026 Drug offences (police-recorded) Year ending March 2026 · offences 3,877 3,967 Year ending March 2026 Possession of weapons (police-recorded) Year ending March 2026 · offences 1,210 1,025 Year ending March 2026 Public order offences (police-recorded) Year ending March 2026 · offences 13,397 13,778 Year ending March 2026 Police-recorded crime (excluding fraud) Year ending March 2026 · offences per 1,000 population 78.4 — Year ending March 2026 Robbery (police-recorded) Year ending March 2026 · offences 1,032 465 Year ending March 2026 Sexual offences (police-recorded) Year ending March 2026 · offences 4,678 4,379 Year ending March 2026 Theft offences (police-recorded) Year ending March 2026 · offences 28,493 32,617 Year ending March 2026 Police-recorded crime (excluding fraud) Year ending March 2026 · offences 106,881 110,099 Year ending March 2026 Violence against the person (police-recorded) Year ending March 2026 · offences 41,549 41,172 Year ending March 2026
Homicides by police force area: Year ending March 2015 to Year ending March 2025 Coalition Conservative Conservative Conservative Conservative Conservative Conservative Labour 0 5 10 15 20 2016 2018 2020 2022 2024 Year ending March 2015: 9 offences · published 5 February 2026 Year ending March 2016: 17 offences · published 5 February 2026 Year ending March 2017: 14 offences · published 5 February 2026 Year ending March 2018: 14 offences · published 5 February 2026 Year ending March 2019: 10 offences · published 5 February 2026 Year ending March 2020: 20 offences · published 5 February 2026 Year ending March 2021: 6 offences · published 5 February 2026 Year ending March 2022: 14 offences · published 5 February 2026 Year ending March 2023: 5 offences · published 5 February 2026 Year ending March 2024: 13 offences · published 5 February 2026 Year ending March 2025: 10 offences · published 5 February 2026
Shaded bands: governments (see labels) Hover or use arrow keys to read a value Offences involving a knife or sharp instrument by police force area: Year ending March 2011 to Year ending March 2026 Coalition Coalition Conservative Conservative Conservative Conservative Conservative Labour Labour 0 250 500 750 2015 2020 2025 Year ending March 2011: 360 offences · published 23 July 2026 Year ending March 2012: 355 offences · published 23 July 2026 Year ending March 2013: 375 offences · published 23 July 2026 Year ending March 2014: 345 offences · published 23 July 2026 Year ending March 2015: 368 offences · published 23 July 2026 Year ending March 2016: 378 offences · published 23 July 2026 Year ending March 2017: 438 offences · published 23 July 2026 Year ending March 2018: 574 offences · published 23 July 2026 Year ending March 2019: 679 offences · published 23 July 2026 Year ending March 2020: 801 offences · published 23 July 2026 Year ending March 2021: 802 offences · published 23 July 2026 Year ending March 2022: 649 offences · published 23 July 2026 Year ending March 2023: 625 offences · published 23 July 2026 Year ending March 2024: 723 offences · published 23 July 2026 Year ending March 2025: 662 offences · published 23 July 2026 Year ending March 2026: 645 offences · published 23 July 2026
Shaded bands: governments (see labels) Hover or use arrow keys to read a value Police officers by police force area: Year ending March 2007 to Year ending March 2026 Labour Labour Coalition Coalition Conservative Conservative Conservative Conservative Labour Labour 0 1k 2k 3k 2010 2015 2020 2025 Year ending March 2007: 3,336 officers (FTE) · published 22 July 2026 Year ending March 2008: 3,244 officers (FTE) · published 22 July 2026 Year ending March 2009: 3,146 officers (FTE) · published 22 July 2026 Year ending March 2010: 3,148 officers (FTE) · published 22 July 2026 Year ending March 2011: 3,100 officers (FTE) · published 22 July 2026 Year ending March 2012: 2,907 officers (FTE) · published 22 July 2026 Year ending March 2013: 2,862 officers (FTE) · published 22 July 2026 Year ending March 2014: 2,861 officers (FTE) · published 22 July 2026 Year ending March 2015: 2,864 officers (FTE) · published 22 July 2026 Year ending March 2016: 2,883 officers (FTE) · published 22 July 2026 Year ending March 2017: 2,908 officers (FTE) · published 22 July 2026 Year ending March 2018: 2,916 officers (FTE) · published 22 July 2026 Year ending March 2019: 2,986 officers (FTE) · published 22 July 2026 Year ending March 2020: 3,012 officers (FTE) · published 22 July 2026 Year ending March 2021: 3,174 officers (FTE) · published 22 July 2026 Year ending March 2022: 3,269 officers (FTE) · published 22 July 2026 Year ending March 2023: 3,487 officers (FTE) · published 22 July 2026 Year ending March 2024: 3,533 officers (FTE) · published 22 July 2026 Year ending March 2025: 3,511 officers (FTE) · published 22 July 2026 Year ending March 2026: 3,534 officers (FTE) · published 22 July 2026
Earlier years are the publisher's own back run, joined where the periods do not overlap. Shaded bands: governments (see labels) Hover or use arrow keys to read a value By category, 12 months to June 2026 Category Offences Previous 12 months Change Per 1,000 England & Wales per 1,000 Violence and sexual offences 47,879 47,145 ▲ 1.6% 35.3 34.7 Anti-social behaviour (not a crime) 15,493 18,278 ▼ 15.2% 11.4 15.3 Public order 14,133 14,194 ▼ 0.4% 10.4 6.8 Shoplifting 11,828 12,707 ▼ 6.9% 8.7 8.3 Criminal damage and arson 9,486 9,873 ▼ 3.9% 7.0 6.9 Other theft 6,373 6,966 ▼ 8.5% 4.7 6.5 Vehicle crime 6,170 6,357 ▼ 2.9% 4.6 5.0 Drugs 3,784 4,403 ▼ 14.1% 2.8 3.4 Other crime 3,156 3,314 ▼ 4.8% 2.3 2.2 Burglary 3,059 3,737 ▼ 18.1% 2.3 3.6 Possession of weapons 1,242 1,068 ▲ 16.3% 0.9 1.0 Bicycle theft 1,084 1,283 ▼ 15.5% 0.8 0.8 Robbery 1,073 619 ▲ 73.3% 0.8 1.4 Theft from the person 728 822 ▼ 11.4% 0.5 1.7 Violent crime 0 0 — 0.0 0.0 Public disorder and weapons 0 0 — 0.0 0.0
Local authorities in this force area Bridgend 12,150 offences 82.7per 1,000 Cardiff 41,199 offences 108.0per 1,000 Merthyr Tydfil 6,322 offences 108.3per 1,000 Neath Port Talbot 11,381 offences 80.1per 1,000 Rhondda Cynon Taf 20,468 offences 84.9per 1,000 Swansea 21,358 offences 85.6per 1,000 Vale of Glamorgan 9,711 offences 71.7per 1,000 Important caveat Police-recorded crime counts offences reported to and recorded by the police. It is affected by whether people report crime and by changes in police recording practice, so it does not measure all crime that happens. The Crime Survey for England and Wales is the better guide to long-term trends in the crimes it covers. Police recorded crime is not designated as National Statistics.
A higher recorded-crime rate does not mean an area is more dangerous. Rates depend on how much crime is reported and recorded, on the number of visitors and commuters who are not counted in the resident population, and on the policing priorities of the force. Anti-social behaviour incidents are shown separately because they are not recorded crimes.
Source Data data.police.uk street-level crime archive (Home Office). Offences are placed at anonymised snap points and assigned to 2021 Lower Layer Super Output Areas, which are mapped to local authorities using the ONS Open Geography lookup.Population ONS mid-year population estimates for England and Wales, mid-2025 edition, local authority level; force populations are the sum of their local authorities. Geography W15000003 Rate offences in the 12 months ÷ resident population × 1,000, rounded to one decimal place. Method Methodology