Blackwood
TownTown in Caerphilly, Wales.
Blackwood is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Blackwood 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 93% of people in Blackwood live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Blackwood compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Blackwood safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Blackwood at a rate of 146.8 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 96.7 per 1,000 people across Wales.
In August 2026 alone, 205 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Blackwood.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (658), anti-social behaviour (350) and other crime (309).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Blackwood was 148.3 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 Blackwood, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Blackwood has no single figure. Of its 8 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 3 neighbourhoods
Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in Wales.
Neighbourhoods in Blackwood
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Caerphilly 005C | 1,501 | 104.8 per 1,000 | 6 | 98.3% |
| Caerphilly 005D | 1,393 | 56.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 97.2% |
| Caerphilly 007A | 1,748 | 141.0 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.7% |
| Caerphilly 007B | 1,531 | 161.3 per 1,000 | 2 | 97.5% |
| Caerphilly 009A | 1,757 | 127.0 per 1,000 | 2 | 94.1% |
| Caerphilly 009B | 1,717 | 72.4 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.7% |
| Caerphilly 009C | 1,736 | 346.6 per 1,000 | 6 | 81.6% |
| Caerphilly 009D | 1,934 | 63.3 per 1,000 | 9 | 89.9% |
Your MP
- Ruth JonesLabourMP for Newport West and Islwyn
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 Blackwood1
Middle areas in Blackwood1
Towns near Blackwood6
Blackwood in brief
Blackwood is a town in Caerphilly, Wales.
About 12,608 people lived in Blackwood in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £195,000 in 2025 across 179 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 146.8 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Blackwood was £195,000 in 2025.
Blackwood had 12,621 usual residents at the census.
About 93% of people in Blackwood live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Blackwood, 94.5% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.