Bridgend
TownTown in Bridgend, Wales.
Bridgend is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Bridgend 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 Bridgend live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Bridgend compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Bridgend safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Bridgend at a rate of 96.8 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 96.7 per 1,000 people across Wales.
In August 2026 alone, 512 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Bridgend.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (2,083), other crime (1,075) and anti-social behaviour (760).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Bridgend was 88.7 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 Bridgend, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Bridgend has no single figure. Of its 31 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (Wales’s most deprived 10%): 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 3: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 6 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (Wales’s least deprived 10%): 8 neighbourhoods
Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in Wales.
Neighbourhoods in Bridgend
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bridgend 011B | 2,549 | 77.8 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.8% |
| Bridgend 011C | 2,594 | 84.9 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.8% |
| Bridgend 011D | 2,975 | 78.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.8% |
| Bridgend 011E | 1,348 | 33.4 per 1,000 | 10 | 87.5% |
| Bridgend 011F | 1,500 | 49.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 88.9% |
| Bridgend 011G | 1,197 | 68.6 per 1,000 | 7 | 88.8% |
| Bridgend 012A | 1,689 | 40.0 per 1,000 | 7 | 100.0% |
| Bridgend 012B | 1,162 | 53.6 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| Bridgend 012C | 1,275 | 34.1 per 1,000 | 8 | 100.0% |
| Bridgend 012D | 2,001 | 63.6 per 1,000 | 4 | 93.0% |
| Bridgend 013B | 1,808 | 158.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 90.2% |
| Bridgend 014A | 1,607 | 655.3 per 1,000 | 3 | 75.1% |
| Bridgend 014B | 1,416 | 146.3 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.8% |
| Bridgend 014C | 1,654 | 144.2 per 1,000 | 3 | 93.2% |
| Bridgend 014D | 1,882 | 123.9 per 1,000 | 8 | 92.7% |
| Bridgend 014E | 1,759 | 207.7 per 1,000 | 2 | 84.8% |
| Bridgend 015A | 1,606 | 63.2 per 1,000 | 7 | 81.6% |
| Bridgend 015B | 1,525 | 49.8 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.2% |
| Bridgend 015C | 1,280 | 29.2 per 1,000 | 10 | 94.6% |
| Bridgend 015D | 1,336 | 189.6 per 1,000 | 8 | 75.2% |
| Bridgend 016A | 1,356 | 53.0 per 1,000 | 4 | 100.0% |
| Bridgend 016B | 1,254 | 142.5 per 1,000 | 1 | 98.8% |
| Bridgend 016C | 1,430 | 94.6 per 1,000 | 8 | 96.4% |
| Bridgend 016D | 2,170 | 38.9 per 1,000 | 7 | 97.0% |
| Bridgend 017B | 1,562 | 115.3 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.3% |
| Bridgend 017C | 1,513 | 34.1 per 1,000 | 8 | 100.0% |
| Bridgend 017D | 1,608 | 73.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 92.8% |
| Bridgend 017E | 1,876 | 22.2 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.9% |
| Bridgend 017F | 1,363 | 24.8 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.1% |
| Bridgend 017G | 1,209 | 19.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.8% |
| Bridgend 017H | 1,508 | 33.0 per 1,000 | 8 | 100.0% |
Your MP
- Chris ElmoreLabourMP for Bridgend
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 Bridgend2
Middle areas in Bridgend6
Towns near Bridgend6
Bridgend in brief
Bridgend is a town in Bridgend, Wales.
About 53,198 people lived in Bridgend in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £230,000 in 2025 across 809 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 96.8 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Bridgend was £230,000 in 2025.
Bridgend had 51,751 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Bridgend live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Bridgend, 93.2% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.