Cardiff East

Wales · W07000089

11,600 crimes recorded in the last 12 months – violence & sexual offences is the most common, falling versus the year before.

Recorded crimes (last 12m)
11,600
Most common
Violence & sexual offences falling
3,658 reports
Data to
Apr 2026

Crimes per month

1,296/mo peak0 baseline
May 23Apr 26

By type (last 12 months)

CategoryReportsShare
Violence & sexual offencesfalling3,65831.5%
Anti-social behaviourfalling1,53613.2%
Shopliftingrising1,31211.3%
Public orderfalling1,18210.2%
Criminal damage & arsonfalling9318.0%
Vehicle crimefalling8757.5%
Other theftfalling5875.1%
Burglaryfalling4323.7%
Drugsfalling3062.6%
Other crimefalling2962.6%
Robberyrising1651.4%
Possession of weaponsrising1411.2%
Bicycle theftfalling1161.0%
Theft from the personfalling630.5%

The open street-level feed merges violence and sexual offences into one category. Splitting them (e.g. homicide vs sexual assault) needs ONS force-level tables, modelled to constituency in a later step.

Partial coverageSource: Street-level crime, data.police.uk (Home Office)· How we know this
Source
Street-level crime
Publisher
data.police.uk (Home Office)
Licence
Open Government Licence v3.0
Retrieved
2026-09-18
How it's mapped
Aggregated from smaller areas to the constituency on a best-fit basis.

Some areas or categories are missing from this source, so treat it as partial.

Source: data.police.uk, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.