Baglan
TownTown in Neath Port Talbot, Wales.
Baglan is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Baglan 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.
Gigabit coverage by town
Connected Nations (Ofcom) · January 2026
In Baglan, 98.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
How Baglan compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Baglan safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Baglan at a rate of 67.8 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 96.7 per 1,000 people across Wales.
In August 2026 alone, 89 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Baglan.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (290), other crime (140) and anti-social behaviour (132).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Baglan was 70.8 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 Baglan, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Baglan has no single figure. Of its 7 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (Wales’s most deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 2: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 2 neighbourhoods
- 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 Baglan
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Neath Port Talbot 013A | 1,465 | 60.5 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.3% |
| Neath Port Talbot 013B | 1,483 | 116.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.2% |
| Neath Port Talbot 013C | 1,601 | 87.5 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.3% |
| Neath Port Talbot 013D | 1,330 | 90.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 90.9% |
| Neath Port Talbot 015B | 1,535 | 17.5 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.9% |
| Neath Port Talbot 015C | 1,440 | 71.1 per 1,000 | 4 | 95.9% |
| Neath Port Talbot 015D | 1,969 | 69.3 per 1,000 | 8 | 86.0% |
Your MP
- Stephen KinnockLabourMP for Aberafan Maesteg
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 Baglan2
Middle areas in Baglan2
Towns near Baglan6
Baglan in brief
Baglan is a town in Neath Port Talbot, Wales.
About 10,583 people lived in Baglan in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £160,000 in 2025 across 141 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 67.8 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Baglan was £160,000 in 2025.
Baglan had 10,516 usual residents at the census.
In Baglan, 98.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Baglan, 2.9% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.