Dinas Powys
WardEast Vale of Glamorgan. About 8,374 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 20 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 62% of people in Dinas Powys live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Dinas Powys compares
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Is Dinas Powys safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Dinas Powys at a rate of 43.2 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 73.3 per 1,000 people across Vale of Glamorgan.
Across Wales as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.7 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 43 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Dinas Powys.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (156), other crime (83) and anti-social behaviour (36).
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 Vale of Glamorgan
These figures are published for the whole of Vale of Glamorgan, not for each ward, so they describe all of Vale of Glamorgan and not Dinas Powys alone. See Vale of Glamorgan
Dinas Powys in brief
Dinas Powys had 8,215 usual residents at the census.
About 62% of people in Dinas Powys live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Dinas Powys, 96.0% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Dinas Powys, 2.2% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.