Bangor
TownTown in Gwynedd, Wales.
Bangor is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Bangor 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 Bangor live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Bangor compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Bangor safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Bangor at a rate of 155.1 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 96.7 per 1,000 people across Wales.
In August 2026 alone, 305 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Bangor.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (946), anti-social behaviour (564) and other crime (470).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Bangor was 134.3 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 Bangor, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Bangor has no single figure. Of its 10 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (Wales’s most deprived 10%): 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
- 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 Bangor
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gwynedd 001A | 1,988 | 418.1 per 1,000 | 5 | 62.3% |
| Gwynedd 001B | 1,295 | 100.1 per 1,000 | 8 | 71.6% |
| Gwynedd 001C | 1,178 | 217.9 per 1,000 | 4 | 81.4% |
| Gwynedd 001D | 1,106 | 140.1 per 1,000 | 1 | 64.9% |
| Gwynedd 001E | 3,048 | 68.8 per 1,000 | 9 | 86.8% |
| Gwynedd 002A | 2,002 | 191.3 per 1,000 | 6 | 96.9% |
| Gwynedd 002B | 1,675 | 103.4 per 1,000 | 8 | 97.4% |
| Gwynedd 002C | 1,406 | 82.2 per 1,000 | 3 | 96.6% |
| Gwynedd 002D | 1,363 | 115.8 per 1,000 | 1 | 90.6% |
| Gwynedd 002E | 1,933 | 106.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 72.5% |
Your MP
- Claire HughesLabourMP for Bangor Aberconwy
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 Bangor1
Middle areas in Bangor2
Towns near Bangor5
Bangor in brief
Bangor is a town in Gwynedd, Wales.
About 18,682 people lived in Bangor in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £165,000 in 2025 across 153 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 155.1 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Bangor was £165,000 in 2025.
Bangor had 16,994 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Bangor live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Bangor, 81.4% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.