Abertillery
TownTown in Blaenau Gwent, Wales.
Abertillery is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Abertillery 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 Abertillery live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Abertillery compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Abertillery safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Abertillery at a rate of 143.7 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 96.7 per 1,000 people across Wales.
In August 2026 alone, 144 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Abertillery.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (590), other crime (290) and anti-social behaviour (253).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Abertillery was 151.2 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 Abertillery, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Abertillery has no single figure. Of its 7 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (Wales’s most deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 3: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in Wales.
Neighbourhoods in Abertillery
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blaenau Gwent 008A | 1,355 | 170.1 per 1,000 | 3 | 12.9% |
| Blaenau Gwent 008B | 1,373 | 332.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 53.9% |
| Blaenau Gwent 008C | 1,440 | 100.8 per 1,000 | 7 | 74.5% |
| Blaenau Gwent 008D | 1,486 | 148.1 per 1,000 | 1 | 76.2% |
| Blaenau Gwent 008E | 1,277 | 111.5 per 1,000 | 3 | 92.7% |
| Blaenau Gwent 008F | 1,685 | 135.0 per 1,000 | 3 | 24.0% |
| Blaenau Gwent 009F | 2,261 | 65.1 per 1,000 | 3 | 64.7% |
Your MP
- Nick SmithLabourMP for Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney
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 Abertillery1
Middle areas in Abertillery1
Towns near Abertillery6
Abertillery in brief
Abertillery is a town in Blaenau Gwent, Wales.
About 10,302 people lived in Abertillery in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £130,000 in 2025 across 145 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 143.7 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Abertillery was £130,000 in 2025.
Abertillery had 10,248 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Abertillery live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Abertillery, 55.2% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.