Brecon
TownTown in Powys, Wales.
Brecon is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Brecon 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 Brecon live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Brecon compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Brecon safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Brecon at a rate of 101.8 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 96.7 per 1,000 people across Wales.
In August 2026 alone, 74 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Brecon.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (381), other crime (149) and criminal damage and arson (98).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Brecon was 99.6 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 Brecon, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Brecon has no single figure. Of its 5 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 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 Brecon
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Powys 017A | 1,779 | 84.4 per 1,000 | 7 | 83.3% |
| Powys 017D | 1,517 | 246.6 per 1,000 | 7 | 60.8% |
| Powys 017E | 1,731 | 63.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 81.6% |
| Powys 017F | 1,839 | 44.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 87.7% |
| Powys 017G | 1,390 | 95.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 72.7% |
Your MP
- David ChadwickLiberal DemocratMP for Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe
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 Brecon1
Middle areas in Brecon1
Towns near Brecon6
Brecon in brief
Brecon is a town in Powys, Wales.
About 8,350 people lived in Brecon in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £263,000 in 2025 across 114 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 101.8 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Brecon was £263,000 in 2025.
Brecon had 8,257 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Brecon live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Brecon, 76.2% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.