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SA12 crime rate and statistics
The SA12 postcode district, in the SA (Swansea) postcode area.
Updated October 2026.
Police published 2,930 street-crime records for SA12 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 1.6% more than in the 12 months before. The rate is 89.8 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.
September 2025 to August 2026. Street-crime records include anti-social behaviour.
Street-crime records
2,930
Latest month (August 2026)
348
Year-on-year
+1.6%
Month-by-month totals
3480
234
Sep
248
Oct
204
Nov
199
Dec
213
Jan
204
Feb
184
Mar
270
Apr
259
May
255
Jun
312
Jul
348
Aug
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Month
Street-crime records
September 2025
234
October 2025
248
November 2025
204
December 2025
199
January 2026
213
February 2026
204
March 2026
184
April 2026
270
May 2026
259
June 2026
255
July 2026
312
August 2026
348
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.
SA12
89.8
South Wales Police
97.9
2,930 records and 32,611 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 SA12 records in the same trailing window. The black line on each bar marks the England and Wales share for the same months.
Violence and sexual offences42.1%
1,233 records · England and Wales 35.5%
Anti-social behaviour17.3%
508 records · England and Wales 15.7%
Public order12.5%
367 records · England and Wales 6.9%
Criminal damage and arson7.5%
219 records · England and Wales 7.0%
Shoplifting5.5%
162 records · England and Wales 8.7%
Other theft4.1%
121 records · England and Wales 6.7%
Vehicle crime2.7%
80 records · England and Wales 5.1%
Other crime2.5%
73 records · England and Wales 2.2%
Where records cluster in SA12
Records by part of SA12: the south-west 2,374, the west 259, the south 193, the south-east 163, the north-east 59, the east 20, the north 4.
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 SA12's postcodes; darker ones hold more records. Hexagons at the edge also hold records from neighbouring districts, and SA12'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 SA12 records cluster in, not where incidents happened. Explore SA12 on the crime map.
Year by year
Calendar-year totals for SA12 (December 2013 to August 2026).
Year
Street-crime records
2021
3,022
2022
2,711
2023
2,833
2024
2,808
2025
2,869
2026 (part year)
2,045
Is SA12 safe?
We don't label places safe or unsafe, because published police records can't show that. This is what they show for SA12 from September 2025 to August 2026.
About 244 records a month. The busiest month was August 2026, with 348.
Records here changed by +1.6% on the 12 months before, against +2.7% across the South Wales Police area, the main force here with 99.9% of SA12's records, over the same months.
Violence and sexual offences is the largest category, at 42.1% of records, against 35.5% across England and Wales over the same months.
The records can't tell you about crime nobody reported, which street in SA12 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
Published locations are approximate; they are snapped to anonymous map points before release, and each record is assigned to a district by its nearest postcode. Counts near district boundaries are indicative.
These are counts of published police records, not all crime, and not a safety score.
Outcome labels in the source data are not court results or conviction rates.
Covers 100.0% of the 32,611 Census 2021 residents of SA12.
Wales: Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025
Of these residents in Wales, 48.3% live in the most deprived 20% of Wales's neighbourhoods and 10.6% in the least deprived 20%.
30%1
19%2
6%3
13%4
2%5
11%6
4%7
6%8
11%9
0%10
Share of residents in each decile, from 1 (most deprived) to 10 (least deprived) of Wales's small areas.
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 SA12 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.
Year
All sales
2026 (part year)
£169,272 (184)
2025
£162,000 (387)
2024
£164,500 (429)
2023
£157,500 (404)
2022
£150,000 (516)
Show prices by property type
Year
Detached
Semi
Terraced
Flat
2026
£277,500 (34)
£173,000 (87)
£138,000 (51)
£126,750 (12)
2025
£292,500 (52)
£170,000 (201)
£130,000 (130)
– (4)
2024
£285,750 (72)
£169,995 (181)
£125,000 (143)
£159,995 (33)
2023
£262,500 (64)
£158,000 (187)
£129,000 (138)
£130,000 (15)
2022
£283,998 (68)
£161,500 (240)
£128,500 (190)
£85,000 (18)
Schools and colleges
12 open establishments with a postcode in SA12, from the Department for Education's Get Information About Schools register. Edition: extract of 29 Oct 2026.
Share of the 781 postcodes in SA12 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.
Service
Every premises
Some premises
Gigabit
80.9%
90.7%
Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)
95.9%
99.4%
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