Aberystwyth
TownTown in Ceredigion, Wales.
Aberystwyth is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Aberystwyth 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 Aberystwyth live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Aberystwyth compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Aberystwyth safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Aberystwyth at a rate of 112.8 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 96.7 per 1,000 people across Wales.
In August 2026 alone, 155 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Aberystwyth.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (746), other crime (300) and anti-social behaviour (187).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Aberystwyth was 124.9 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 Aberystwyth, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Aberystwyth has no single figure. Of its 9 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 2 neighbourhoods
- 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 Aberystwyth
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ceredigion 002A | 1,355 | 96.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 73.4% |
| Ceredigion 002B | 2,109 | 324.6 per 1,000 | 4 | 50.3% |
| Ceredigion 002D | 1,172 | 262.8 per 1,000 | 4 | 65.2% |
| Ceredigion 002G | 2,921 | 24.8 per 1,000 | 9 | 47.6% |
| Ceredigion 002H | 1,415 | 103.2 per 1,000 | 7 | 64.5% |
| Ceredigion 003A | 1,320 | 74.6 per 1,000 | 3 | 87.5% |
| Ceredigion 003B | 1,643 | 67.5 per 1,000 | 4 | 94.8% |
| Ceredigion 003C | 1,007 | 146.2 per 1,000 | 5 | 54.3% |
| Ceredigion 011A | 1,226 | 35.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 85.5% |
Your MP
- Ben LakePlaid CymruMP for Ceredigion Preseli
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 Aberystwyth1
Middle areas in Aberystwyth2
Aberystwyth in brief
Aberystwyth is a town in Ceredigion, Wales.
About 15,520 people lived in Aberystwyth in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £198,000 in 2025 across 137 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 112.8 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Aberystwyth was £198,000 in 2025.
Aberystwyth had 14,646 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Aberystwyth live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Aberystwyth, 61.5% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.