Wales violent crime statistics

Annual crime rate in Wales region is 37.3 crimes per 1000 people. Compared to the national crime rate, Wales's rate is at 107% as of February 2025.Violent crime makes up 38.2% of all crimes reported in the region. The total number of "violent crime" is 113k, and this number has decreased by 3.7% when compared year-over-year in the period of January 2024 - December 2024.

Wales regioncrime statisticEngland & Wales
37.3 annual crime rate per 1k workday people35
107% ratio of national crime rate100%
38.2% share of all crimes34.1%
113k crimes reported2.0M
-3.7% annual change-2.9%

Wales violent crime rate comparison map

Wales violent crime rate comparison map
CountyCrime rate vs. ENG & WLS rateCrime rate per 1000 workday peopleTotal number of crimes
Clwyd123%4321538
Dyfed76%269565
Gwent136%4826305
Gwynedd95%336325
Mid Glamorgan116%4115855
Powys64%222751
South Glamorgan94%3316926
West Glamorgan100%3514058

Wales violent crime rate rank

Crime rate ranking : 5. highest crime rate out of 9 regions

Wales violent crime rate rank

Wales violent crime rate compared to other regions

The total number of "violent crime" is 113k, and this number has decreased by 3.7% when compared year-over-year in the period of January 2024 - December 2024. In the graph below, region are compared by crime rate and crime rate percentage change. Crime rate percentage change compares the region crime rate between January 2024 - December 2024 to the region crime rate in the previous 12 months. The size of the circle reflects the number of total crimes reported. The bigger the circle, the higher the number of crimes reported in the region.

-3.7% annual change, crime is declining

113k crimes reported

Wales violent crime rate compared to other regionsCrime rate percentage change
Crime rate per 1000 workday people

Wales violent crime volume

Number of crime incidents by month from January 2014 to December 2024.

Wales violent crime volume

Wales violent crime rate

Crime rate per 1000 workday people compared to the national crime rate by year.

Wales violent crime rate

Wales violent crime seasonality

Total number of crimes reported in a given calendar month (1 = January … 12 = December) in the previous five years, i.e. from 2020 till 2024.

Wales violent crime seasonality

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