Abergavenny
TownTown in Monmouthshire, Wales.
Abergavenny is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Abergavenny 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 100% of people in Abergavenny live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Abergavenny compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Abergavenny safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Abergavenny at a rate of 137.7 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 96.7 per 1,000 people across Wales.
In August 2026 alone, 185 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Abergavenny.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (643), anti-social behaviour (412) and other crime (367).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Abergavenny was 133.6 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 Abergavenny, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Abergavenny has no single figure. Of its 8 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in Wales.
Neighbourhoods in Abergavenny
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monmouthshire 001A | 1,523 | 92.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 91.8% |
| Monmouthshire 001C | 1,802 | 121.3 per 1,000 | 7 | 70.2% |
| Monmouthshire 001E | 1,574 | 305.4 per 1,000 | 8 | 59.0% |
| Monmouthshire 002A | 1,563 | 145.6 per 1,000 | 2 | 98.3% |
| Monmouthshire 002C | 1,573 | 59.1 per 1,000 | 5 | 97.4% |
| Monmouthshire 002E | 1,750 | 216.8 per 1,000 | 6 | 94.6% |
| Monmouthshire 002G | 1,437 | 90.3 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.5% |
| Monmouthshire 002H | 1,318 | 64.8 per 1,000 | 6 | 94.5% |
Your MP
- Catherine FookesLabourMP for Monmouthshire
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 Abergavenny1
Middle areas in Abergavenny2
Towns near Abergavenny6
Abergavenny in brief
Abergavenny is a town in Monmouthshire, Wales.
About 14,091 people lived in Abergavenny in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £300,000 in 2025 across 207 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 137.7 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Abergavenny was £300,000 in 2025.
Abergavenny had 13,689 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Abergavenny live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Abergavenny, 85.0% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.