Burry Port
WardSouth Carmarthenshire. About 4,232 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 4.2 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 100% of people in Burry Port live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Burry Port compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Burry Port safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Burry Port at a rate of 111.1 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 86.7 per 1,000 people across Carmarthenshire.
Across Wales as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.7 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 35 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Burry Port.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (238), other crime (71) and anti-social behaviour (59).
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 Carmarthenshire
These figures are published for the whole of Carmarthenshire, not for each ward, so they describe all of Carmarthenshire and not Burry Port alone. See Carmarthenshire
Burry Port in brief
Burry Port had 4,037 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Burry Port live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Burry Port, 94.5% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Burry Port, 3.6% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.