Clydach
TownTown in Swansea and Neath Port Talbot, Wales.
Clydach is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Clydach 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 Clydach live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Clydach compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Clydach safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Clydach at a rate of 70.1 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 96.7 per 1,000 people across Wales.
In August 2026 alone, 68 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Clydach.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (264), other crime (128) and anti-social behaviour (89).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Clydach was 74.4 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 Clydach, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Clydach has no single figure. Of its 6 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 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 Clydach
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Neath Port Talbot 004G | 1,401 | 41.1 per 1,000 | 4 | 77.8% |
| Swansea 002A | 1,447 | 51.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 53.1% |
| Swansea 002B | 1,396 | 59.4 per 1,000 | 9 | 51.9% |
| Swansea 002C | 1,492 | 92.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 89.6% |
| Swansea 002D | 1,418 | 75.8 per 1,000 | 4 | 51.8% |
| Swansea 002E | 1,551 | 97.6 per 1,000 | 5 | 52.4% |
Your MP
- Carolyn HarrisLabourMP for Neath and Swansea East
As of , from the UK Parliament Members API. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.
Councils Clydach sits in2
Postcode districts covering Clydach2
Middle areas in Clydach1
Towns near Clydach6
Clydach in brief
Clydach is a town in Swansea and Neath Port Talbot, Wales.
About 8,513 people lived in Clydach in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £170,000 in 2025 across 91 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 70.1 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Clydach was £170,000 in 2025.
Clydach had 8,445 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Clydach live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Clydach, 63.9% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.