Aberdare
TownTown in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales.
Aberdare is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Aberdare add up the census output areas (or, for claimants, the neighbourhoods) that sit mostly inside it, so they are close to, but not exactly, the town’s own.
Radon Affected Area by town
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 32% of people in Aberdare live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Aberdare compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Aberdare safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Aberdare at a rate of 97.2 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 96.7 per 1,000 people across Wales.
In August 2026 alone, 344 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Aberdare.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,713), other crime (748) and anti-social behaviour (557).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Aberdare was 106.1 per 1,000 people.
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.
Deprivation in Aberdare, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Aberdare has no single figure. Of its 24 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (Wales’s most deprived 10%): 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 10 (Wales’s least deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in Wales.
Neighbourhoods in Aberdare
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rhondda Cynon Taf 001A | 1,731 | 41.7 per 1,000 | 7 | 98.8% |
| Rhondda Cynon Taf 001B | 1,360 | 60.0 per 1,000 | 6 | 92.0% |
| Rhondda Cynon Taf 001C | 1,301 | 127.4 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.6% |
| Rhondda Cynon Taf 001D | 1,420 | 100.3 per 1,000 | 1 | 68.6% |
| Rhondda Cynon Taf 001E | 1,554 | 113.4 per 1,000 | 1 | 92.7% |
| Rhondda Cynon Taf 002A | 1,749 | 180.5 per 1,000 | 4 | 67.1% |
| Rhondda Cynon Taf 002B | 1,933 | 59.8 per 1,000 | 7 | 67.7% |
| Rhondda Cynon Taf 002C | 1,556 | 74.2 per 1,000 | 3 | 97.1% |
| Rhondda Cynon Taf 002D | 1,529 | 87.8 per 1,000 | 4 | 95.6% |
| Rhondda Cynon Taf 003A | 1,409 | 73.0 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.0% |
| Rhondda Cynon Taf 003B | 1,914 | 301.9 per 1,000 | 2 | 81.4% |
| Rhondda Cynon Taf 003C | 1,813 | 49.3 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.2% |
| Rhondda Cynon Taf 003D | 1,414 | 115.2 per 1,000 | 3 | 94.5% |
| Rhondda Cynon Taf 003E | 1,399 | 20.1 per 1,000 | 10 | 95.4% |
| Rhondda Cynon Taf 004A | 1,797 | 74.7 per 1,000 | 6 | 93.8% |
| Rhondda Cynon Taf 004B | 1,388 | 105.9 per 1,000 | 5 | 98.3% |
| Rhondda Cynon Taf 004C | 2,538 | 126.7 per 1,000 | 2 | 82.6% |
| Rhondda Cynon Taf 004D | 1,186 | 44.2 per 1,000 | 9 | 96.2% |
| Rhondda Cynon Taf 005A | 2,389 | 84.2 per 1,000 | 3 | 88.8% |
| Rhondda Cynon Taf 005B | 1,350 | 83.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 82.6% |
| Rhondda Cynon Taf 005C | 1,413 | 56.0 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.7% |
| Rhondda Cynon Taf 005D | 1,420 | 92.0 per 1,000 | 3 | 97.0% |
| Rhondda Cynon Taf 005E | 1,508 | 69.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 96.6% |
| Rhondda Cynon Taf 005F | 1,932 | 108.6 per 1,000 | 3 | 96.7% |
Your MP
- Gerald JonesLabourMP for Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare
As of , from the UK Parliament Members API. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.
Council1
Postcode districts covering Aberdare1
Middle areas in Aberdare5
Towns near Aberdare6
Aberdare in brief
Aberdare is a town in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales.
About 38,388 people lived in Aberdare in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £155,000 in 2025 across 487 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 97.2 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Aberdare was £155,000 in 2025.
Aberdare had 37,675 usual residents at the census.
About 32% of people in Aberdare live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Aberdare, 89.4% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.