Photo: Jaggery · CC BY-SA 2.0Rhos sees less burglary, vehicle crime and damage per resident than 96% of UK towns
The overall Safety Grade is A− (#2 of 19 in West Glamorgan), which means less crime per resident than 84% of UK towns, judged on crimes police recorded inside its built-up area from September 2023 to August 2026. At 7 per 1,000 residents, public order in Rhos runs well past the 3.6 of a typical town its size (18 recorded in the 12 months to August 2026). Each year brought 16.1 violent and sexual offences and 3.3 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage for every 1,000 residents.
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
What stands out about safety in Rhos
Violent crime fell over the year
In the 12 months to August 2026 police recorded 7% less violent crime per resident in Rhos than in the year before; across UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people violent crime held steady. Trend ↓
Less crime than most places its size
Of 550 UK towns of 2,000 to 3,000 people, Rhos has the 106th lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Long Crendon, Westwoodside and Hightown, higher than Shipdham, Credenhill and Swanton Morley. 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. 46% of Rhos’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.
The A− for Rhos, and how it is built
A fairly firm grade. Built on 148 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Rhos against every UK town of 1,000 or more.
Per resident, against all UK towns; beside it, how it compares with towns its size.
Most Rhos residents live in one of Wales’s lowest-crime neighbourhoods
100% 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.
Rhos’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.
Among 550 towns its size, Rhos ranks 106th for the least graded crime
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Richhill Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon | 2,738 | 6.2 | 2.8 | 3 | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 103 | Shipdham Norfolk | 2,459 | 15.2 | 4.1 | 2 | A− |
| 104 | Credenhill Herefordshire | 2,334 | 15.9 | 3.4 | 2.1 | A− |
| 105 | Swanton Morley Norfolk | 2,175 | 15.8 | 3.5 | 3.4 | A− |
| 106 | Rhos West Glamorgan | 2,560 | 16.1 | 3.3 | 1.6 | A− |
| 107 | Scotter Lincolnshire | 2,946 | 12.1 | 7.2 | 5.6 | A− |
| 108 | Brantham Suffolk | 2,081 | 15.1 | 4.3 | 1.9 | A− |
| 109 | West Winch Norfolk | 2,828 | 14.6 | 4.8 | 3.4 | A− |
| … | ||||||
| 169 | Alltwen West Glamorgan | 2,721 | 18.8 | 3.9 | 14.6 | A− |
| … | ||||||
| 302 | Tonna West Glamorgan | 2,665 | 22.8 | 6.6 | 3.1 | B |
| … | ||||||
| 338 | Resolven West Glamorgan | 2,162 | 23.5 | 8.3 | 1.9 | B− |
| … | ||||||
| 399 | Cilfrew West Glamorgan | 2,178 | 32.3 | 4.6 | 1.2 | C+ |
| … | ||||||
| 550 | Avonmouth Bristol | 2,643 | 82.9 | 54.6 | 60.4 | 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 Rhos, and others in West Glamorgan.
What police recorded in the last 12 months
Against the typical town its size, Rhos runs highest on public order (7 per 1,000 against 3.6). Violence & sexual offences sits below it.
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 40 | 15.6 | 22.4 |
| Public order | not graded | 18 | 7 | 3.6 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 6 | 2.3 | 4.5 |
| Other theft | not graded | 2 | 0.8 | 3.2 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 2 | 0.8 | 1.9 |
| Other crime | not graded | 2 | 0.8 | 1.5 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 2 | 0.8 | 8.8 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 1 | 0.4 | 2 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 1 | 0.4 | 0.4 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 0 | 0 | 1.8 |
| Drugs | not graded | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 0 | 0 | 0.1 |
| Robbery | Violent | 0 | 0 | 0.2 |
| Theft from the person | not graded | 0 | 0 | 0 |
“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 2,500 to 10,000 people.
Crime in Rhos 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 4 burglaries, vehicle crimes or acts of criminal damage, plus 1 shoplifting and theft report, in the 12 months to August 2026. Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot is one recorded crime.
Violent crime down 7% in a year, while towns its size held steady
“Towns its size” pools all UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people that police.uk covers each month (Greater Manchester has no data).
Rolling twelve-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 -7% (towns its size +1%).
No one died in a collision on Rhos’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 1 collision with injuries inside Rhos in five years. 0 people were killed or seriously injured.
Most UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people (81%) had no road deaths in these five years, and Rhos is one of them.
Counting serious injuries too, a town of Rhos’s size at the median for UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people would see about 2 people killed or seriously injured in five years; Rhos had 0.
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 Rhos’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Rhos
Rhos records less graded crime per resident than every neighbour in the table.
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 Rhos 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 Rhos
Is Rhos safe?
Police recorded 16.1 violent and sexual offences and 3.3 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Rhos’s built-up area). That earns an A− for safety: less crime per resident than 84% of UK towns. Among 550 UK towns of 2,000 to 3,000 people, Rhos is 106th from the least crime. 46% of residents live in neighbourhoods in Wales’s lowest-crime 10%.
Is crime going up in Rhos?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime fell 7%, burglary, vehicle crime and damage held steady, shoplifting and theft fell 60% and anti-social behaviour fell 78%. Across UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people, violent crime held steady.
What is the most common crime in Rhos?
Violence & sexual offences: 40 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came public order (18) and criminal damage & arson (6), with 2 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Rhos 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 Rhos’s 16.1 and 3.3, 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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