Cathays
WardNorth east Cardiff. About 23,927 people in 3.4 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 29% of people in Cathays live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Cathays compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Cathays safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Cathays at a rate of 304.8 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 112.2 per 1,000 people across Cardiff.
Across Wales as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.7 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 763 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Cathays.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (2,277), other crime (1,466) and shoplifting (1,435).
Worked out by Open Index from police.uk crime records and ONS and NISRA population estimates.
Rates are per resident, so places that many people work in or visit, such as Westminster, the City of London and other city centres, have far higher rates than their residents alone would suggest.
Figures for the whole of Cardiff
These figures are published for the whole of Cardiff, not for each ward, so they describe all of Cardiff and not Cathays alone. See Cardiff
Cathays in brief
Cathays had 21,823 usual residents at the census.
About 29% of people in Cathays live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Cathays, 87.0% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Cathays, 1.6% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.