SA1 crime rate and statistics

The SA1 postcode district, in the SA (Swansea) postcode area.

Updated October 2026.

Police published 9,446 street-crime records for SA1 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 1.1% more than in the 12 months before. The rate is 182.2 per 1,000 residents counted in the Census 2021, against 97.9 for South Wales Police. A residents-only rate reads high where many people visit. Police locations are approximate.

Last 12 published months

September 2025 to August 2026. Street-crime records include anti-social behaviour.

Street-crime records

9,446

Latest month (August 2026)

898

Year-on-year

+1.1%

Month-by-month totals

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Month Street-crime records
September 2025 700
October 2025 795
November 2025 775
December 2025 715
January 2026 729
February 2026 645
March 2026 817
April 2026 827
May 2026 863
June 2026 809
July 2026 873
August 2026 898

Street-crime records per 1,000 residents

Published street-crime records (including anti-social behaviour), September 2025 to August 2026, per 1,000 usual residents in the Census 2021.

SA1

182.2

South Wales Police

97.9

9,446 records and 51,841 residents. Residents-only rates overstate crime where many people visit who do not live there, such as city centres, stations, and retail parks. Residents are counted at March 2021 while records are current, so areas with many newer homes can read higher.

No England and Wales comparison is shown, because not every force involved has published every month of this window.

Rates cover England and Wales only. Residents: Office for National Statistics, Census 2021 postcode estimates, Open Government Licence v3.0. How rates are built.

Top crime categories

Share of SA1 records in the same trailing window. The black line on each bar marks the England and Wales share for the same months.

Where records cluster in SA1

Published street-crime records in SA1, September 2025 to August 2026, grouped into hexagons

Records by part of SA1: the south-west 6,368, the west 2,087, the north-west 432, the south 361, the north-east 342, the south-east 219, the north 83, the east 1.

North is at the top. Each hexagon is about 300 m across, the size the crime map uses zoomed in, and holds at least one of SA1's postcodes; darker ones hold more records. Hexagons at the edge also hold records from neighbouring districts, and SA1's records placed outside these hexagons are not drawn, so the map's counts won't add up to the page's total. Police place each record at an approximate public point, so this shows which parts of SA1 records cluster in, not where incidents happened. Explore SA1 on the crime map.

Year by year

Calendar-year totals for SA1 (December 2013 to August 2026).

Year Street-crime records
2021 8,603
2022 8,334
2023 9,456
2024 9,662
2025 9,328
2026 (part year) 6,461

Is SA1 safe?

We don't label places safe or unsafe, because published police records can't show that. This is what they show for SA1 from September 2025 to August 2026.

The records can't tell you about crime nobody reported, which street in SA1 a record came from, or how a place feels at different times of day. The rate per 1,000 residents is above. See the limits to keep in mind.

Limits to keep in mind

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Police forces

SA1's records from September 2025 to August 2026 were published by South Wales Police (99.7%), Dyfed-Powys Police (0.3%), Metropolitan Police (0.0%) and Hertfordshire Constabulary (0.0%).

Postcode sectors in SA1

Each sector is the outward code plus the first digit of the inward code. Counts cover the same trailing window.

Sector Street-crime records
SA1 1 2,060
SA1 2 1,030
SA1 3 1,415
SA1 4 599
SA1 5 988
SA1 6 1,905
SA1 7 634
SA1 8 815

Council area

SA1 is mostly in the Swansea council area. A council area page counts every record in the council's whole area, not just this district.

Highest and lowest published crime rates by postcode district

Deprivation where residents live

Covers 100.0% of the 51,841 Census 2021 residents of SA1.

Wales: Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025

Of these residents in Wales, 30.8% live in the most deprived 20% of Wales's neighbourhoods and 4.2% in the least deprived 20%.

Share of residents in each decile, from 1 (most deprived) to 10 (least deprived) of Wales's small areas. Shares are rounded, so they may not total 100%.

Deciles rank neighbourhoods within one nation, so English and Welsh deciles don't compare. They describe areas, not the people living in them, and crime is one of the things the index measures, so this mix partly overlaps the crime figures above. How this is built.

About SA1 beyond crime

Figures below come from official open datasets, joined on postcode. Sources are listed on the methodology page.

House prices

Median sold price by year, with the number of sales in brackets, from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (standard residential sales in England and Wales). A median is shown only where there were at least five sales. Edition: yearly files 2022 to 2026.

YearAll sales
2026 (part year) £143,000 (245)
2025 £145,000 (528)
2024 £135,000 (513)
2023 £138,000 (528)
2022 £136,000 (577)
Show prices by property type
Year DetachedSemiTerracedFlat
2026 £190,000 (5) £180,000 (41) £142,500 (145) £118,498 (54)
2025 £234,000 (27) £146,000 (99) £145,000 (302) £131,750 (100)
2024 £220,000 (23) £150,000 (79) £135,000 (283) £127,250 (128)
2023 £202,500 (18) £148,000 (106) £133,000 (273) £137,000 (131)
2022 £202,750 (24) £147,000 (105) £130,000 (317) £132,000 (131)

Schools and colleges

19 open establishments with a postcode in SA1, from the Department for Education's Get Information About Schools register. Edition: extract of 29 Oct 2026.

Show the 19 schools
SchoolPhaseType
Cefn Hengoed Community School – Welsh establishment
Christchurch (C.I.W.) Voluntary Aided Primary School – Welsh establishment
Cwmglas Primary School – Welsh establishment
Danygraig Primary School – Welsh establishment
Ffynone House School Trust – Welsh establishment
Gors Community Primary School – Welsh establishment
Hafod Primary School – Welsh establishment
Pentrechwyth Primary School – Welsh establishment
Pentrehafod School – Welsh establishment
Sea View Community Primary School – Welsh establishment
St Helen's Primary School – Welsh establishment
St Illtyd's R.C. Primary School – Welsh establishment
St Joseph's Cathedral Primary School – Welsh establishment
St Thomas Community Primary School – Welsh establishment
Swansea Sixth Form College – Welsh establishment
Terrace Road Primary School – Welsh establishment
Townhill Community Primary School – Welsh establishment
Waun Wen Primary School – Welsh establishment
Ysgol Gymraeg y Cwm – Welsh establishment

Broadband

Share of the 1,215 postcodes in SA1 where every premises, or at least one, can get each fixed service, from Ofcom Connected Nations. Ofcom does not publish full-fibre availability by postcode. Edition: Connected Nations, July 2025 data.

ServiceEvery premisesSome premises
Gigabit76.3%92.2%
Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)93.0%98.6%

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CrimeMapsUK. SA1 postcode district: published street-crime records, September 2025 to August 2026. Source: data.police.uk, Open Government Licence v3.0. Retrieved 30 October 2026. Police locations are approximate; records are assigned to the area by nearest postcode. Postcode centroids from the ONS Postcode Directory. Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026. https://crimemapsuk.com/crime/districts/sa1/

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