Riverside
WardNorth Cardiff. About 14,246 people in 2.6 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 20% of people in Riverside live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Riverside compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Riverside safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Riverside at a rate of 175.8 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, 214 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Riverside.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (652), other crime (550) and vehicle crime (336).
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 Riverside alone. See Cardiff
Riverside in brief
Riverside had 13,751 usual residents at the census.
About 20% of people in Riverside live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Riverside, 93.2% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Riverside, 5.9% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.