Margam and Tai-bach
WardSouth Neath Port Talbot. About 7,883 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 56 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 84% of people in Margam and Tai-bach live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Margam and Tai-bach compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Margam and Tai-bach safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Margam and Tai-bach at a rate of 87.3 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 83.3 per 1,000 people across Neath Port Talbot.
Across Wales as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.7 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 58 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Margam and Tai-bach.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (274), other crime (146) and shoplifting (96).
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 Neath Port Talbot
These figures are published for the whole of Neath Port Talbot, not for each ward, so they describe all of Neath Port Talbot and not Margam and Tai-bach alone. See Neath Port Talbot
Margam and Tai-bach in brief
Margam and Tai-bach had 7,833 usual residents at the census.
About 84% of people in Margam and Tai-bach live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Margam and Tai-bach, 95.2% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Margam and Tai-bach, 3.1% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.