Crime Rate in Buttrills, ward

Buttrills has the highest crime rate of 24 wards in Vale of Glamorgan district and the 330th highest crime rate ward of 7,548 wards in England and Wales.

The overall crime rate in Buttrills in the last 12 months was 191.3 per 1,000 residents and was 159.2% higher than the Vale of Glamorgan district average (73.8 per 1,000 residents). In the last 12 months, Buttrills’s most reported crimes were Shoplifting with 367 offences recorded. The least common crime was Bicycle theft with 2 cases , unchanged from 2024. The fastest-growing crime category was Robbery ( 100.0% YoY). The sharpest decline was Criminal damage and arson ( -23.4% YoY).

Violent crimes totalled 502 (≈ 76.0 per 1,000 residents). Year-over-year these were falling ( -11.2% ). Over the last decade, overall crime has falling ( -12.8% comparing early vs recent averages) .

In the Buttrills ward, the main local crime hotspot is near Kendrick Road. Police recorded 171 crimes here, including 80 violent or public-order offences. All of these hotspots lie within roughly 0.3 miles.