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SA5 crime rate and statistics
The SA5 postcode district, in the SA (Swansea) postcode area.
Updated October 2026.
Police published 3,278 street-crime records for SA5 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 3.5% fewer than in the 12 months before. The rate is 92.3 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
3,278
Latest month (August 2026)
305
Year-on-year
-3.5%
Month-by-month totals
3570
253
Sep
357
Oct
251
Nov
244
Dec
233
Jan
241
Feb
294
Mar
258
Apr
265
May
294
Jun
283
Jul
305
Aug
Show as a table
Month
Street-crime records
September 2025
253
October 2025
357
November 2025
251
December 2025
244
January 2026
233
February 2026
241
March 2026
294
April 2026
258
May 2026
265
June 2026
294
July 2026
283
August 2026
305
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.
SA5
92.3
South Wales Police
97.9
3,278 records and 35,509 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 SA5 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 offences38.5%
1,263 records · England and Wales 35.5%
Shoplifting13.9%
455 records · England and Wales 8.7%
Public order11.0%
360 records · England and Wales 6.9%
Anti-social behaviour10.7%
352 records · England and Wales 15.7%
Criminal damage and arson7.4%
243 records · England and Wales 7.0%
Other theft4.0%
131 records · England and Wales 6.7%
Vehicle crime3.6%
119 records · England and Wales 5.1%
Other crime3.3%
108 records · England and Wales 2.2%
Where records cluster in SA5
Records by part of SA5: the south 2,852, the south-east 478, the south-west 135, the north 13.
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 SA5's postcodes; darker ones hold more records. Hexagons at the edge also hold records from neighbouring districts, and SA5'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 SA5 records cluster in, not where incidents happened. Explore SA5 on the crime map.
Year by year
Calendar-year totals for SA5 (December 2013 to August 2026).
Year
Street-crime records
2021
3,964
2022
3,585
2023
3,585
2024
3,508
2025
3,444
2026 (part year)
2,173
Is SA5 safe?
We don't label places safe or unsafe, because published police records can't show that. This is what they show for SA5 from September 2025 to August 2026.
About 273 records a month. The busiest month was October 2025, with 357.
Records here changed by -3.5% on the 12 months before, against +2.7% across the South Wales Police area, the main force here with 99.5% of SA5's records, over the same months.
Violence and sexual offences is the largest category, at 38.5% 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 SA5 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 35,509 Census 2021 residents of SA5.
Wales: Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025
Of these residents in Wales, 48.1% live in the most deprived 20% of Wales's neighbourhoods and 8.2% in the least deprived 20%.
37%1
11%2
5%3
17%4
17%5
4%6
0%7
0%8
8%9
0%10
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 SA5 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)
£165,000 (170)
2025
£158,000 (357)
2024
£155,000 (335)
2023
£146,000 (335)
2022
£146,000 (440)
Show prices by property type
Year
Detached
Semi
Terraced
Flat
2026
£255,000 (23)
£180,000 (69)
£150,000 (77)
– (1)
2025
£250,000 (47)
£175,000 (116)
£137,000 (187)
£90,000 (7)
2024
£230,000 (41)
£165,000 (128)
£133,500 (164)
– (2)
2023
£242,000 (45)
£159,000 (116)
£127,250 (170)
– (4)
2022
£249,995 (64)
£155,000 (169)
£132,000 (202)
£69,000 (5)
Schools and colleges
13 open establishments with a postcode in SA5, from the Department for Education's Get Information About Schools register. Edition: extract of 29 Oct 2026.
Share of the 752 postcodes in SA5 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
83.9%
90.4%
Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)
93.4%
95.9%
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