Ebbw Vale
TownTown in Blaenau Gwent, Wales.
Ebbw Vale is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Ebbw Vale 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 17% of people in Ebbw Vale live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Ebbw Vale compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Ebbw Vale safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Ebbw Vale at a rate of 149.6 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 96.7 per 1,000 people across Wales.
In August 2026 alone, 229 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Ebbw Vale.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (968), anti-social behaviour (645) and other crime (550).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Ebbw Vale was 151.5 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 Ebbw Vale, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Ebbw Vale has no single figure. Of its 14 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (Wales’s most deprived 10%): 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 3 neighbourhoods
Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in Wales.
Neighbourhoods in Ebbw Vale
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blaenau Gwent 001A | 1,343 | 106.4 per 1,000 | 4 | 88.1% |
| Blaenau Gwent 001B | 1,175 | 158.9 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.8% |
| Blaenau Gwent 001C | 1,093 | 94.5 per 1,000 | 8 | 91.3% |
| Blaenau Gwent 001D | 1,404 | 60.5 per 1,000 | 7 | 95.8% |
| Blaenau Gwent 001E | 1,609 | 164.5 per 1,000 | 1 | 95.4% |
| Blaenau Gwent 004A | 1,478 | 178.4 per 1,000 | 4 | 94.2% |
| Blaenau Gwent 004B | 1,606 | 62.5 per 1,000 | 8 | 96.4% |
| Blaenau Gwent 004C | 1,266 | 153.5 per 1,000 | 3 | 84.8% |
| Blaenau Gwent 004D | 1,791 | 136.0 per 1,000 | 1 | 98.2% |
| Blaenau Gwent 004E | 1,645 | 113.4 per 1,000 | 8 | 97.4% |
| Blaenau Gwent 007C | 1,432 | 54.8 per 1,000 | 7 | 65.1% |
| Blaenau Gwent 007D | 1,207 | 163.6 per 1,000 | 1 | 98.5% |
| Blaenau Gwent 007E | 1,726 | 321.4 per 1,000 | 4 | 77.4% |
| Blaenau Gwent 007F | 1,261 | 268.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 84.0% |
Your MP
- Nick SmithLabourMP for Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney
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 Ebbw Vale1
Middle areas in Ebbw Vale3
Towns near Ebbw Vale6
Ebbw Vale in brief
Ebbw Vale is a town in Blaenau Gwent, Wales.
About 20,077 people lived in Ebbw Vale in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £155,000 in 2025 across 246 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 149.6 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Ebbw Vale was £155,000 in 2025.
Ebbw Vale had 19,635 usual residents at the census.
About 17% of people in Ebbw Vale live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Ebbw Vale, 90.1% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.