Crime in CF5 3AE
How much crime is recorded in CF5 3AE, what kind, and how it compares with the rest of the country.
- Neighbourhood
- Fairwater South
- Council
- Cardiff
- Region
- Wales
- Neighbourhood population
- 1,737 (2024)
CF5 3AECardiff
How safe is CF5 3AE
Higher-harm crime (violence, robbery, burglary, vehicle crime and weapons offences) runs at 28.1 offences per 1,000 people a year in the CF5 3AE area, broadly in line with the 31.1 average across England and Wales. That puts it in band 6 of 10 against all neighbourhoods.
Around the middle of neighbourhoods in England and Wales.
What crime is recorded
Recorded offences per 1,000 people a year (counting both residents and people who work locally, or per 1,000 households for burglary).
Higher-harm crime over time
It has risen 24% since 2022.
Source: data.police.uk street-level crime, resolved to neighbourhoods. Rates cover September 2025 to August 2026, the latest twelve months published.