Wales theft from the person crime statistics

Annual crime rate in Wales region is 0.5 crimes per 1000 people. Compared to the national crime rate, Wales's rate is at 21% as of March 2025.Theft from the person crime makes up 0.5% of all crimes reported in the region. The total number of "theft from the person crime" is 1.5k, and this number has increased by 1.0% when compared year-over-year in the period of February 2024 - January 2025.

Wales region	crime statistic	England & Wales
0.5	annual crime rate per 1k workday people	2.4
21%	ratio of national crime rate	100%
0.5%	share of all crimes	2.3%
1.5k	crimes reported	133k
1.0%	annual change	21.2%

Wales theft from the person crime rate comparison map

	Crime rate vs. ENG & WLS rate	Crime rate per 1000 workday people	Total number of crimes
Clwyd	15%	0	178
Dyfed	12%	0	107
Gwent	15%	0	191
Gwynedd	11%	0	50
Mid Glamorgan	18%	0	171
Powys	7%	0	20
South Glamorgan	44%	1	536
West Glamorgan	26%	1	247

Wales theft from the person crime rate rank

Crime rate ranking : 2. lowest crime rate out of 9 regions

Wales theft from the person crime rate compared to other regions

The total number of "theft from the person crime" is 1.5k, and this number has increased by 1.0% when compared year-over-year in the period of February 2024 - January 2025. 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 February 2024 - January 2025 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.

+1.0% annual change, crime is increasing

1.5k crimes reported