Cwmbrân
TownTown in Torfaen, Wales.
Cwmbrân is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Cwmbrân 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 94% of people in Cwmbrân live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Cwmbrân compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Cwmbrân safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Cwmbrân at a rate of 136.7 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 96.7 per 1,000 people across Wales.
In August 2026 alone, 627 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Cwmbrân.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (2,250), other crime (1,241) and anti-social behaviour (1,225).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Cwmbrân was 130.9 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 Cwmbrân, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Cwmbrân has no single figure. Of its 31 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (Wales’s most deprived 10%): 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 6 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (Wales’s least deprived 10%): 2 neighbourhoods
Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in Wales.
Neighbourhoods in Cwmbrân
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Torfaen 007A | 1,283 | 235.5 per 1,000 | 1 | 95.9% |
| Torfaen 007B | 2,594 | 71.1 per 1,000 | 7 | 93.0% |
| Torfaen 007C | 1,422 | 133.0 per 1,000 | 4 | 94.3% |
| Torfaen 007D | 1,596 | 121.7 per 1,000 | 3 | 98.0% |
| Torfaen 007E | 1,169 | 70.7 per 1,000 | 7 | 85.5% |
| Torfaen 008A | 1,806 | 78.0 per 1,000 | 5 | 93.3% |
| Torfaen 008B | 1,544 | 42.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 88.6% |
| Torfaen 008C | 1,793 | 62.8 per 1,000 | 8 | 90.2% |
| Torfaen 008D | 1,936 | 131.6 per 1,000 | 7 | 92.4% |
| Torfaen 009A | 1,320 | 125.0 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.3% |
| Torfaen 009B | 1,239 | 136.4 per 1,000 | 2 | 93.9% |
| Torfaen 009C | 1,144 | 191.6 per 1,000 | 1 | 93.7% |
| Torfaen 009D | 1,329 | 122.5 per 1,000 | 1 | 96.0% |
| Torfaen 009E | 1,442 | 56.2 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.2% |
| Torfaen 010A | 1,518 | 1,084.7 per 1,000 | 2 | 72.3% |
| Torfaen 010B | 1,401 | 134.5 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.5% |
| Torfaen 010C | 1,179 | 176.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 95.9% |
| Torfaen 010D | 1,776 | 177.8 per 1,000 | 6 | 93.3% |
| Torfaen 010E | 1,772 | 165.6 per 1,000 | 2 | 97.8% |
| Torfaen 011A | 1,391 | 151.1 per 1,000 | 3 | 90.4% |
| Torfaen 011B | 1,244 | 109.3 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.8% |
| Torfaen 011C | 1,161 | 70.4 per 1,000 | 6 | 97.3% |
| Torfaen 011D | 1,244 | 12.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 97.7% |
| Torfaen 011E | 1,201 | 80.2 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.8% |
| Torfaen 012A | 2,438 | 86.3 per 1,000 | 7 | 94.0% |
| Torfaen 012B | 1,499 | 41.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 83.5% |
| Torfaen 012C | 1,404 | 59.5 per 1,000 | 5 | 98.8% |
| Torfaen 012D | 1,244 | 36.9 per 1,000 | 7 | 98.1% |
| Torfaen 013A | 2,323 | 82.9 per 1,000 | 5 | 94.4% |
| Torfaen 013B | 2,652 | 93.3 per 1,000 | 8 | 81.1% |
| Torfaen 013C | 1,179 | 91.3 per 1,000 | 9 | 93.2% |
Your MP
- Nick Thomas-SymondsLabourMP for Torfaen
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 Cwmbrân1
Middle areas in Cwmbrân7
Towns near Cwmbrân6
Cwmbrân in brief
Cwmbrân is a town in Torfaen, Wales.
About 48,534 people lived in Cwmbrân in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £211,500 in 2025 across 634 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 136.7 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Cwmbrân was £211,500 in 2025.
Cwmbrân had 47,075 usual residents at the census.
About 94% of people in Cwmbrân live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Cwmbrân, 92.4% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.