Wales violent crime statistics

Annual crime rate in Wales region is 39 crimes per 1000 people. Compared to the national crime rate, Wales's rate is at 112% as of May 2025.Violent crime makes up 38.5% of all crimes reported in the region. The total number of "violent crime" is 118k, and this number has increased by 4.0% when compared year-over-year in the period of June 2024 - May 2025.

Wales regioncrime statisticEngland & Wales
39 annual crime rate per 1k workday people34.9
112% ratio of national crime rate100%
38.5% share of all crimes34.3%
118k crimes reported2.0M
4.0% annual change-1.2%

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
Clwyd119%4220811
Dyfed116%4114680
Gwent131%4625350
Gwynedd94%336234
Mid Glamorgan115%4015740
Powys104%364468
South Glamorgan93%3216739
West Glamorgan102%3614267

Wales violent crime rate rank

Crime rate ranking : 4. 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 118k, and this number has increased by 4.0% when compared year-over-year in the period of June 2024 - May 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 June 2024 - May 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.

+4.0% annual change, crime is increasing

118k 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 May 2025.

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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