Ammanford
TownTown in Carmarthenshire, Wales.
Ammanford is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Ammanford 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 19% of people in Ammanford live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Ammanford compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Ammanford safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Ammanford at a rate of 108.7 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 96.7 per 1,000 people across Wales.
In August 2026 alone, 78 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Ammanford.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (428), other crime (158) and anti-social behaviour (113).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Ammanford was 119.6 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 Ammanford, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Ammanford has no single figure. Of its 5 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 3: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in Wales.
Neighbourhoods in Ammanford
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carmarthenshire 013A | 1,128 | 131.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 90.5% |
| Carmarthenshire 013B | 1,619 | 235.0 per 1,000 | 3 | 83.1% |
| Carmarthenshire 013C | 2,398 | 66.5 per 1,000 | 7 | 78.2% |
| Carmarthenshire 013D | 1,416 | 71.6 per 1,000 | 3 | 94.5% |
| Carmarthenshire 013E | 1,276 | 50.8 per 1,000 | 8 | 63.9% |
Your MP
- Ann DaviesPlaid CymruMP for Caerfyrddin
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 Ammanford1
Middle areas in Ammanford1
Towns near Ammanford6
Ammanford in brief
Ammanford is a town in Carmarthenshire, Wales.
About 8,405 people lived in Ammanford in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £208,000 in 2025 across 105 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 108.7 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Ammanford was £208,000 in 2025.
Ammanford had 8,282 usual residents at the census.
About 19% of people in Ammanford live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Ammanford, 84.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.