# Gorseinon Town in Swansea, Wales. Gorseinon is a town in Swansea, Wales. Median sale price £200,000 in 2025. Recorded crime 56.7 per 1,000 people. About 14,538 people. Town. Code W45000470. In: [Towns](https://openindex.co.uk/places/towns) › [Swansea](https://openindex.co.uk/swansea) Gorseinon is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Gorseinon 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. ## Key figures - **Median sale price: £200,000** (2025). The median price paid for a home in Gorseinon was £200,000 in 2025. Joint 230th cheapest of 1,092. Source: Worked out by Open Index from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data. Published 28 September 2026. https://openindex.co.uk/town/gorseinon#f-house-sales-median-price - **Population: 14,114** (2021). Gorseinon had 14,114 usual residents at the census (ONS Census 2021). 461st least populated of 1,209. Source: Census 2021, England and Wales and Scotland's Census 2022 and Census 2021, Northern Ireland, 2021. Published 21 July 2026. https://openindex.co.uk/town/gorseinon#f-population - **People in radon Affected Area squares: 84%** (2022). About 84% of people in Gorseinon live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area. UK 44%. Source: Worked out by Open Index from the UKHSA and BGS radon atlas and census output areas. Published 1 December 2022. https://openindex.co.uk/town/gorseinon#f-radon-affected-share - **Gigabit broadband coverage: 96.7%** (January 2026). In Gorseinon, 96.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026 (Ofcom). UK 87.8%. Source: Connected Nations (Ofcom), January 2026. Published 13 May 2026. https://openindex.co.uk/town/gorseinon#f-gigabit-coverage ## On the map - [Radon Affected Area by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/radon-affected-areas#place=W45000470) (Worked out by Open Index · 2022): About 84% of people in Gorseinon live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area. - [Sales per year by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/house-sales-per-year#place=W45000470) (Worked out by Open Index · 2025): 222 homes were sold in Gorseinon in 2025. - [Crime and ASB by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/recorded-crime#place=W45000470) (Police recorded crime and outcomes (data.police.uk) · August 2026): Crime and anti-social behaviour for Gorseinon. - [Population by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/population#place=W45000470) (Census 2021, England and Wales): Gorseinon had 14,114 usual residents at the census. ## How Gorseinon compares Each town against every other town the measure covers. | Measure | Gorseinon | Rank | Compared with | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Median sale price | £200,000 | joint 29th most expensive | 76 towns, Wales · 2025 | | Population | 14,114 | 35th most populated | 76 towns, Wales · 2021 | | People in radon Affected Area squares | 84% | 23rd fewest people in radon Affected Areas | 76 towns, Wales · 2022 | | Gigabit broadband coverage | 96.7% | joint 11th highest | 76 towns, Wales · Jan 2026 | ## Is Gorseinon safe? What police records show In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Gorseinon at a rate of 56.7 per 1,000 people. That compares with 96.7 per 1,000 people across Wales. In August 2026 alone, 67 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Gorseinon. In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (374), other crime (165) and anti-social behaviour (104). A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Gorseinon was 59.6 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 Gorseinon, neighbourhood by neighbourhood - Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Gorseinon has no single figure. Of its 9 neighbourhoods with a rank: - Decile 2: 2 neighbourhoods - Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood - Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods - Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood - Decile 9: 2 neighbourhoods - Decile 10 (Wales’s least deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood Source: Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in Wales. ## Neighbourhoods in Gorseinon | Area | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [Swansea 005B](https://openindex.co.uk/swansea/neighbourhood/w01000774) | 1,623 | 64.6 per 1,000 | 6 | 97.9% | | [Swansea 005C](https://openindex.co.uk/swansea/neighbourhood/w01000841) | 1,469 | 57.8 per 1,000 | 5 | 98.8% | | [Swansea 005E](https://openindex.co.uk/swansea/neighbourhood/w01000843) | 1,384 | 34.3 per 1,000 | 9 | 97.9% | | [Swansea 005F](https://openindex.co.uk/swansea/neighbourhood/w01000844) | 1,529 | 54.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 97.9% | | [Swansea 005G](https://openindex.co.uk/swansea/neighbourhood/w01001991) | 1,403 | 168.7 per 1,000 | 2 | 91.5% | | [Swansea 005H](https://openindex.co.uk/swansea/neighbourhood/w01001992) | 1,427 | 43.6 per 1,000 | 6 | 96.2% | | [Swansea 007A](https://openindex.co.uk/swansea/neighbourhood/w01000784) | 1,294 | 47.4 per 1,000 | 7 | 98.0% | | [Swansea 007B](https://openindex.co.uk/swansea/neighbourhood/w01000785) | 1,780 | 17.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 98.7% | | [Swansea 007C](https://openindex.co.uk/swansea/neighbourhood/w01000786) | 1,262 | 30.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 94.2% | ## Your MP - [Gower](https://openindex.co.uk/constituency/gower): Tonia Antoniazzi (Labour), MP since July 2024. As of 18 October 2026. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API. ## Council [Swansea](https://openindex.co.uk/swansea) ## Postcode districts covering Gorseinon [SA4](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/sa4) ## Middle areas in Gorseinon [Gorseinon](https://openindex.co.uk/swansea/gorseinon) ## Towns near Gorseinon [Llanelli](https://openindex.co.uk/town/llanelli), [Swansea](https://openindex.co.uk/town/swansea), [Clydach](https://openindex.co.uk/town/clydach), [Neath](https://openindex.co.uk/town/neath), [Ammanford](https://openindex.co.uk/town/ammanford), [Baglan](https://openindex.co.uk/town/baglan) ## Gorseinon in brief Gorseinon is a town in Swansea, Wales. About 14,538 people lived in Gorseinon in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £200,000 in 2025 across 222 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 56.7 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk). The median price paid for a home in Gorseinon was £200,000 in 2025. Gorseinon had 14,114 usual residents at the census. About 84% of people in Gorseinon live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area. In Gorseinon, 96.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026. ## About - Type: Town - Code: W45000470 - Constituency: [Gower †](https://openindex.co.uk/constituency/gower) - Council: [Swansea †](https://openindex.co.uk/swansea) - Nation: [Wales](https://openindex.co.uk/wales) - Area: 3.51 km² - People, mid-2024: 14,538* - Neighbourhoods: 9 - Output areas: 46 * People: worked out by Open Index from neighbourhood estimates, shared out by where people lived at the census (by area in Northern Ireland). This area's edges do not follow neighbourhood edges, so the figure is close but not exact. † Best fit: the constituency and council this town mostly lies in. Its edges do not follow theirs. ## Next door [Llanelli](https://openindex.co.uk/town/llanelli), [Swansea](https://openindex.co.uk/town/swansea), [Clydach](https://openindex.co.uk/town/clydach), [Neath](https://openindex.co.uk/town/neath), [Ammanford](https://openindex.co.uk/town/ammanford), [Baglan](https://openindex.co.uk/town/baglan) ## Latest updates for Gorseinon - August 2026 house prices published: HM Land Registry and partners · Oct 2026. - September 2026 rent published: ONS private rents · Oct 2026. - Dental practices updated: NHS England · Oct 2026. - Schools updated: Ofsted · Oct 2026. The same figures as JSON: https://openindex.co.uk/v1/places/W45000470 ## How to cite Source: Open Index, openindex.co.uk. Link to this page, https://openindex.co.uk/town/gorseinon, or to one figure with its anchor, https://openindex.co.uk/town/gorseinon#f-house-sales-median-price. 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