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SA72 crime rate and statistics
The SA72 postcode district, in the SA (Swansea) postcode area.
Updated October 2026.
Police published 1,270 street-crime records for SA72 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 1.3% more than in the 12 months before. The rate is 121.6 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
1,270
Latest month (August 2026)
98
Year-on-year
+1.3%
Month-by-month totals
1300
84
Sep
73
Oct
107
Nov
108
Dec
107
Jan
106
Feb
107
Mar
109
Apr
130
May
112
Jun
129
Jul
98
Aug
Show as a table
Month
Street-crime records
September 2025
84
October 2025
73
November 2025
107
December 2025
108
January 2026
107
February 2026
106
March 2026
107
April 2026
109
May 2026
130
June 2026
112
July 2026
129
August 2026
98
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.
SA72
121.6
Dyfed-Powys Police
84.9
1,270 records and 10,447 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 SA72 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 offences49.2%
625 records · England and Wales 35.5%
Anti-social behaviour11.6%
147 records · England and Wales 15.7%
Criminal damage and arson10.1%
128 records · England and Wales 7.0%
Public order7.6%
97 records · England and Wales 6.9%
Shoplifting5.9%
75 records · England and Wales 8.7%
Other theft4.4%
56 records · England and Wales 6.7%
Drugs2.9%
37 records · England and Wales 3.4%
Burglary2.8%
35 records · England and Wales 3.7%
Where records cluster in SA72
Records by part of SA72: the west 819, the south-west 468, the east 10, the north-west 7.
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 SA72's postcodes; darker ones hold more records. Hexagons at the edge also hold records from neighbouring districts, and SA72'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 SA72 records cluster in, not where incidents happened. Explore SA72 on the crime map.
Year by year
Calendar-year totals for SA72 (December 2013 to August 2026).
Year
Street-crime records
2021
1,214
2022
1,598
2023
1,238
2024
878
2025
1,223
2026 (part year)
898
Is SA72 safe?
We don't label places safe or unsafe, because published police records can't show that. This is what they show for SA72 from September 2025 to August 2026.
About 106 records a month. The busiest month was May 2026, with 130.
Records here changed by +1.3% on the 12 months before, against 0.0% across the Dyfed-Powys Police area over the same months.
Violence and sexual offences is the largest category, at 49.2% 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 SA72 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 10,447 Census 2021 residents of SA72.
Wales: Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025
Of these residents in Wales, 45.5% live in the most deprived 20% of Wales's neighbourhoods and 0.0% in the least deprived 20%.
14%1
32%2
0%3
0%4
47%5
0%6
8%7
0%8
0%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 SA72 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)
£157,000 (69)
2025
£170,000 (157)
2024
£158,500 (92)
2023
£150,000 (139)
2022
£160,000 (176)
Show prices by property type
Year
Detached
Semi
Terraced
Flat
2026
£272,500 (12)
£163,500 (13)
£155,000 (38)
£80,000 (6)
2025
£317,500 (33)
£170,000 (35)
£145,750 (78)
£78,000 (11)
2024
£247,500 (14)
£172,600 (19)
£155,000 (46)
£85,000 (13)
2023
£325,000 (28)
£164,500 (28)
£143,000 (67)
£74,000 (16)
2022
£280,000 (36)
£157,500 (35)
£150,000 (95)
£65,500 (10)
Schools and colleges
3 open establishments with a postcode in SA72, from the Department for Education's Get Information About Schools register. Edition: extract of 29 Oct 2026.
Share of the 304 postcodes in SA72 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
70.4%
86.8%
Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)
96.1%
98.7%
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