Public access to policing data for England and Wales.
Crime in CF42 6
The CF42 6 postcode sector, in the CF (Cardiff) postcode area, with most records published by South Wales Police.
Updated October 2026.
Police published 637 street-crime records for CF42 6 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 10.0% more than in the 12 months before. The rate is 86.5 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
637
Share of CF42
56.5%
Year-on-year
+10.0%
CF42 6 holds 56.5% of the 1,128 records assigned to CF42 in the same window.
Month-by-month totals
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Month
Street-crime records
September 2025
46
October 2025
62
November 2025
68
December 2025
58
January 2026
42
February 2026
40
March 2026
47
April 2026
41
May 2026
63
June 2026
52
July 2026
57
August 2026
61
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.
CF42 6
86.5
South Wales Police
97.9
637 records and 7,367 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.
Category mix compared
Each column is a share of that area's own records in the same window, so areas of different sizes compare fairly. Force: South Wales Police.
Category
CF42 6
CF42
Force
Violence and sexual offences
41.0%
44.1%
37.7%
Anti-social behaviour
18.1%
13.7%
12.4%
Public order
10.8%
11.4%
11.6%
Shoplifting
8.2%
5.3%
9.6%
Criminal damage and arson
6.1%
7.4%
7.4%
Other theft
5.0%
4.5%
5.0%
Vehicle crime
3.8%
3.8%
4.9%
Other crime
3.0%
4.0%
2.5%
Year by year
Calendar-year totals for CF42 6 (December 2013 to August 2026).
Year
Street-crime records
2021
575
2022
619
2023
569
2024
506
2025
668
2026 (part year)
403
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 sector by its nearest postcode. A sector is small, so counts near its edges are indicative.
These are counts of published police records, not all crime, and not a safety score.
Covers 100.0% of the 7,367 Census 2021 residents of CF42 6.
Wales: Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025
Of these residents in Wales, 0.1% live in the most deprived 20% of Wales's neighbourhoods and 0.0% in the least deprived 20%.
0%1
0%2
37%3
0%4
24%5
39%6
0%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.
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