Photo: Jaggery · CC BY-SA 2.0Less crime per resident is recorded in Gorseinon than in 78% of UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people
Overall, Gorseinon grades B− for safety (#7 of 19 in West Glamorgan): close to the middle of UK towns, on crimes police recorded inside its built-up area from September 2023 to August 2026. It has less burglary, vehicle crime and damage than 65% of UK towns, but less violent crime than only 42%. Violence recorded locally climbed 9% in a year. For every 1,000 residents, 25.7 violent and sexual offences and 7.7 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage were logged a year.
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
What stands out about safety in Gorseinon
Violent crime rose over the year
In the 12 months to August 2026 police recorded 9% more violent crime per resident in Gorseinon than in the year before; across UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people violent crime held steady. Burglary, vehicle crime and criminal damage rose 10% (towns its size: held steady). Trend ↓
Less crime than many places its size
Of 350 UK towns of 10,000 to 19,000 people, Gorseinon has the 95th lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Hythe, Alsager and Oxted, higher than Catterick Garrison, Birstall and Bourne. Towns its size ↓
Many neighbourhoods rank low for crime in Wales
The Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025 ranks every neighbourhood in Wales on community safety. 13% of Gorseinon’s residents live in one of the lowest-crime 10%, and 0% in one of the highest-crime 20%. Neighbourhood ranks ↓
Written from the police.uk and government data on this page. Figures are crimes police recorded, not convictions.
Inside Gorseinon’s B− for safety
A firm grade. Built on 1,414 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Gorseinon against every UK town of 1,000 or more.
Per resident, against all UK towns; beside it, how it compares with towns its size.
1 in 8 Gorseinon residents lives in one of Wales’s lowest-crime neighbourhoods
36% of residents live in the lowest-crime 30% of Wales’s neighbourhoods, and 0% in the highest-crime 20%. The community safety domain scores recorded crime, anti-social behaviour and fire incidents where people live, so it can read differently from the town-wide rate, which counts crimes where they happened.
Gorseinon’s residents by the crime decile of their neighbourhood (LSOA, about 1,500 people) in the Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025 (community safety domain), where 1 is the highest-crime 10% of Wales’s neighbourhoods and 10 the lowest.
What police recorded in the last 12 months
Vehicle crime and shoplifting sit below it.
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 369 | 26.1 | 30.4 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 102 | 7.2 | 12.4 |
| Public order | not graded | 82 | 5.8 | 5.4 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 67 | 4.7 | 6.2 |
| Other theft | not graded | 39 | 2.8 | 4.4 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 35 | 2.5 | 6.1 |
| Other crime | not graded | 28 | 2 | 1.8 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 22 | 1.6 | 2.4 |
| Drugs | not graded | 20 | 1.4 | 1.9 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 19 | 1.3 | 2.8 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 11 | 0.8 | 0.7 |
| Theft from the person | not graded | 4 | 0.3 | 0.3 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 1 | 0.1 | 0.3 |
| Robbery | Violent | 1 | 0.1 | 0.5 |
“Violent” is police.uk’s violence and sexual offences (which includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury), robbery and possession of weapons. Anti-social behaviour isn’t a crime category; shoplifting and other theft happen mostly in shops and town centres rather than to residents, so neither counts in the grade.
September 2025 to August 2026, per 1,000 residents. The tick on each bar is the typical (median) town among UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people.
Police in Gorseinon identify a suspect more often than across UK towns
No suspect was identified for 59% of Gorseinon’s burglaries, vehicle crimes and criminal damage, against 69% across UK towns, and for 11% of violent and sexual offences against 19%. Most violent cases close as “unable to prosecute” (68% here), usually because the victim doesn’t support a prosecution. About 7% of violent and 2% of household crimes reached court.
The latest outcome police.uk shows for each crime recorded in the first of the three years (September 2023 to August 2024), so most cases have closed. 476 crimes.
Gorseinon places 95th of 350 towns its size, the least crime first
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kesgrave Suffolk | 14,947 | 13 | 3.3 | 2.7 | A |
| … | ||||||
| 92 | Catterick Garrison North Yorkshire | 14,212 | 26.9 | 6.1 | 7.9 | B− |
| 93 | Birstall Leicestershire | 14,317 | 19 | 14.2 | 7.3 | B− |
| 94 | Bourne Lincolnshire | 17,495 | 25.6 | 7.7 | 8.9 | B− |
| 95 | Gorseinon West Glamorgan | 14,114 | 25.7 | 7.7 | 7.2 | B− |
| 96 | Cambourne Cambridgeshire | 11,071 | 24.7 | 8.8 | 10 | B− |
| 97 | Churchdown Gloucestershire | 13,480 | 27.5 | 6 | 6.8 | B− |
| 98 | Soham Cambridgeshire | 10,609 | 24.8 | 8.8 | 4.9 | B− |
| … | ||||||
| 164 | Baglan West Glamorgan | 10,516 | 29.8 | 10.9 | 5 | C |
| … | ||||||
| 350 | Haverfordwest Dyfed | 12,088 | 91.4 | 28.6 | 32.3 | D− |
Safety letters rank against every UK town of 1,000 or more; the order here is context only.
Graded crime per 1,000 residents a year, September 2023 to August 2026, counting from the least: towns ranked near Gorseinon, and others in West Glamorgan.
How crime in Gorseinon has moved
“Towns its size” pools all UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people that police.uk covers each month (Greater Manchester has no data).
Rolling six-month rate, per 1,000 residents a year (longer windows for smaller places, where a few crimes swing a month). In the 12 months to August 2026 against the 12 before: violent +9% (towns its size +1%), homes and vehicles +10% (towns its size -2%), shoplifting and theft -4% (towns its size +1%), anti-social behaviour -19% (towns its size -4%).
Crime in Gorseinon per 1,000 residents
A crime isn’t a victim: one person can report several, and crimes in a town centre often involve visitors rather than residents.
And about 8 burglaries, vehicle crimes or acts of criminal damage, plus 6 shoplifting and theft reports, in the 12 months to August 2026. Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot is one recorded crime.
Where in Gorseinon police recorded crime
| At or near | Reports | Mostly |
|---|---|---|
| Car parks | 179 | 35% shoplifting & theft |
| Supermarkets | 175 | 43% shoplifting & theft |
| Sports and recreation grounds | 66 | 64% violent |
| Nightclubs | 52 | 38% violent |
| Bus and coach stations | 23 | 52% anti-social behaviour |
| College and university buildings | 20 | 65% violent |
police.uk places each crime at an anonymous map point; some are named for the kind of place (a supermarket, a car park), and each row adds up every place of that kind in Gorseinon. We show only these, never streets or homes.
Beside it, the public places police.uk named most often.
No one died in a collision on Gorseinon’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 16 collisions with injuries inside Gorseinon in five years. 3 people were killed or seriously injured: 0 on foot and 0 on a bicycle.
That is about what is typical for UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people: at their median rate (0.9 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Gorseinon’s size would see about 1 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Gorseinon’s own rate (0.0) is context, not a ranking.
Counting serious injuries too, a town of Gorseinon’s size at the median for UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people would see about 17 people killed or seriously injured in five years; Gorseinon had 3.
Casualties are counted where the collision happened, not where people lived: a main road through town adds through-traffic, and residents’ own risk on roads elsewhere isn’t here. Seriously injured uses the Department for Transport’s adjusted figures, which even out the police forces’ different ways of recording injuries. There’s no national rate here: more than half of road deaths in England and Wales (58%) happen outside every town’s built-up area. Source: DfT road casualty statistics (STATS19), 2021–2025.
Collisions police recorded inside Gorseinon’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Gorseinon
| Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gorseinon | 14,114 | 25.7 | 7.7 | B− |
| Loughor | 4,632 | 22.3 | 8.4 | B− |
| Grovesend | 1,148 | 17.8 | 4.9 | A− |
| Penllergaer | 3,578 | 19.6 | 5.9 | B+ |
| Gowerton | 7,447 | 32.2 | 10.3 | C |
| Llangennech | 4,278 | 20.1 | 5.1 | B+ |
| Bryn | 1,727 | 19.9 | 5.9 | B+ |
| Dunvant | 1,732 | 9.1 | 3.3 | A+ |
Gorseinon records more graded crime per resident than 6 of its 7 neighbours; only Gowerton records more. Loughor, 1 miles away, records 22.3 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Gorseinon’s 25.7.
Per 1,000 residents a year, the same three years. Tap a town for its safety page.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Where crimes happen, not where victims live. police.uk places each crime at a point near where it happened. Town centres with shops, stations, a hospital and nightlife record more crime per resident, and residents of nearby villages who come in to shop or go out are part of that count.
- Bigger towns record more per resident. Across UK towns, recorded crime per resident rises steeply with size, more than in the U.S., so a city’s grade sits low against the whole UK. The “towns its size” figures show where Gorseinon sits among towns like it; they are context and don’t change the grade.
- Points are approximate. police.uk moves each point to the nearest of a set of anonymous map points, so crimes near the edge of the built-up area can fall either side of it.
Questions about safety in Gorseinon
Is Gorseinon safe?
Police recorded 25.7 violent and sexual offences and 7.7 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Gorseinon’s built-up area). That earns a B− for safety: less crime per resident than 48% of UK towns. Among 350 UK towns of 10,000 to 19,000 people, Gorseinon is 95th from the least crime. 13% of residents live in neighbourhoods in Wales’s lowest-crime 10%.
Is crime going up in Gorseinon?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime rose 9%, burglary, vehicle crime and damage rose 10%, shoplifting and theft held steady and anti-social behaviour fell 19%. Across UK towns of 10,000 to 50,000 people, violent crime held steady.
Is Gorseinon town centre safe at night?
police.uk placed 52 crimes and reports at or near nightclubs in three years, 38% of them violent. Over the last two years, violent crime peaked in March and was lowest in February.
What is the most common crime in Gorseinon?
Violence & sexual offences: 369 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came public order (82) and criminal damage & arson (67), with 102 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Gorseinon compare with Swansea?
Swansea records 42.6 violent and sexual offences and 15.6 crimes against homes and vehicles per 1,000 residents a year, against Gorseinon’s 25.7 and 7.7, over the same three years.
Sources: data.police.uk street-level crime, 36 months to August 2026, points inside the built-up-area boundary · ONS Census 2021, output areas summed to the ONS 2022 built-up area · Welsh Government Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025, community safety domain by LSOA · Department for Transport road casualty statistics (STATS19), collisions 2021–2025, points inside the built-up-area boundary · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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