Uplands
WardSouth east Swansea. About 15,889 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 2.3 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 36% of people in Uplands live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Uplands compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Uplands safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Uplands at a rate of 75.6 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 87.1 per 1,000 people across Swansea.
Across Wales as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.7 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 120 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Uplands.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (385), other crime (228) and shoplifting (175).
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 Swansea
These figures are published for the whole of Swansea, not for each ward, so they describe all of Swansea and not Uplands alone. See Swansea
Uplands in brief
Uplands had 14,025 usual residents at the census.
About 36% of people in Uplands live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Uplands, 97.9% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Uplands, 2.8% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.