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SA16 crime rate and statistics
The SA16 postcode district, in the SA (Swansea) postcode area.
Updated October 2026.
Police published 721 street-crime records for SA16 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 8.5% fewer than in the 12 months before. The rate is 87.0 per 1,000 residents counted in the Census 2021, against 84.9 for Dyfed-Powys 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
721
Latest month (August 2026)
55
Year-on-year
-8.5%
Month-by-month totals
680
59
Sep
66
Oct
52
Nov
54
Dec
54
Jan
57
Feb
67
Mar
68
Apr
63
May
61
Jun
65
Jul
55
Aug
Show as a table
Month
Street-crime records
September 2025
59
October 2025
66
November 2025
52
December 2025
54
January 2026
54
February 2026
57
March 2026
67
April 2026
68
May 2026
63
June 2026
61
July 2026
65
August 2026
55
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.
SA16
87.0
Dyfed-Powys Police
84.9
721 records and 8,291 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 SA16 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 offences54.5%
393 records · England and Wales 35.5%
Anti-social behaviour11.9%
86 records · England and Wales 15.7%
Criminal damage and arson8.9%
64 records · England and Wales 7.0%
Public order7.1%
51 records · England and Wales 6.9%
Other theft3.9%
28 records · England and Wales 6.7%
Burglary3.1%
22 records · England and Wales 3.7%
Other crime2.9%
21 records · England and Wales 2.2%
Drugs2.6%
19 records · England and Wales 3.4%
Where records cluster in SA16
Records by part of SA16: the south-east 1,198, the south-west 448, the south 129, the west 84, the centre 50.
North is at the top. Each hexagon is about 1.2 km across, the size the crime map uses zoomed out, and holds at least one of SA16's postcodes; darker ones hold more records. Hexagons at the edge also hold records from neighbouring districts, and SA16'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 SA16 records cluster in, not where incidents happened. Explore SA16 on the crime map.
Year by year
Calendar-year totals for SA16 (December 2013 to August 2026).
Year
Street-crime records
2021
661
2022
561
2023
672
2024
515
2025
805
2026 (part year)
490
Is SA16 safe?
We don't label places safe or unsafe, because published police records can't show that. This is what they show for SA16 from September 2025 to August 2026.
About 60 records a month. The busiest month was April 2026, with 68.
Records here changed by -8.5% on the 12 months before, against 0.0% across the Dyfed-Powys Police area, the main force here with 99.2% of SA16's records, over the same months. With 721 records a year, a change of a few percent can be chance.
Violence and sexual offences is the largest category, at 54.5% 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 SA16 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 8,291 Census 2021 residents of SA16.
Wales: Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025
Of these residents in Wales, 24.8% live in the most deprived 20% of Wales's neighbourhoods and 26.3% in the least deprived 20%.
0%1
25%2
17%3
1%4
0%5
15%6
16%7
0%8
26%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 SA16 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)
£180,750 (64)
2025
£190,000 (154)
2024
£187,498 (136)
2023
£174,998 (114)
2022
£181,000 (128)
Show prices by property type
Year
Detached
Semi
Terraced
Flat
2026
£272,500 (24)
£174,000 (23)
£160,000 (16)
– (1)
2025
£280,000 (45)
£180,000 (71)
£128,000 (33)
£175,000 (5)
2024
£279,998 (42)
£190,000 (51)
£130,000 (42)
– (1)
2023
£289,995 (37)
£165,000 (37)
£135,000 (36)
– (4)
2022
£266,000 (38)
£160,000 (55)
£125,000 (29)
£77,000 (6)
Schools and colleges
5 open establishments with a postcode in SA16, from the Department for Education's Get Information About Schools register. Edition: extract of 29 Oct 2026.
Share of the 259 postcodes in SA16 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
81.1%
89.6%
Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)
87.3%
90.7%
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