Llanelli
TownTown in Carmarthenshire, Wales.
Llanelli is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Llanelli 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 Llanelli live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Llanelli compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Llanelli safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Llanelli at a rate of 142.5 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 96.7 per 1,000 people across Wales.
In August 2026 alone, 477 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Llanelli.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (2,520), other crime (971) and anti-social behaviour (816).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Llanelli was 132.1 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 Llanelli, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Llanelli has no single figure. Of its 26 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (Wales’s most deprived 10%): 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 5 neighbourhoods
Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in Wales.
Neighbourhoods in Llanelli
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carmarthenshire 019F | 2,471 | 41.0 per 1,000 | 8 | 89.4% |
| Carmarthenshire 020A | 1,498 | 72.4 per 1,000 | 6 | 97.8% |
| Carmarthenshire 020B | 1,782 | 150.7 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.7% |
| Carmarthenshire 020C | 1,914 | 171.0 per 1,000 | 2 | 94.7% |
| Carmarthenshire 022A | 1,772 | 172.6 per 1,000 | 3 | 90.4% |
| Carmarthenshire 022B | 1,646 | 63.7 per 1,000 | 8 | 96.1% |
| Carmarthenshire 022C | 1,916 | 113.6 per 1,000 | 3 | 95.5% |
| Carmarthenshire 023A | 1,463 | 111.2 per 1,000 | 8 | 96.7% |
| Carmarthenshire 023B | 1,663 | 346.5 per 1,000 | 3 | 80.1% |
| Carmarthenshire 023C | 2,118 | 64.1 per 1,000 | 8 | 91.8% |
| Carmarthenshire 024A | 1,537 | 377.8 per 1,000 | 7 | 84.2% |
| Carmarthenshire 024B | 1,633 | 58.9 per 1,000 | 4 | 100.0% |
| Carmarthenshire 024C | 1,587 | 81.6 per 1,000 | 5 | 100.0% |
| Carmarthenshire 024D | 1,830 | 145.6 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.5% |
| Carmarthenshire 025A | 2,402 | 53.8 per 1,000 | 8 | 89.7% |
| Carmarthenshire 025B | 2,372 | 78.0 per 1,000 | 5 | 92.9% |
| Carmarthenshire 025C | 1,563 | 153.5 per 1,000 | 4 | 94.1% |
| Carmarthenshire 025D | 1,453 | 61.4 per 1,000 | 2 | 98.9% |
| Carmarthenshire 025E | 1,374 | 199.0 per 1,000 | 1 | 89.2% |
| Carmarthenshire 026A | 1,789 | 142.9 per 1,000 | 2 | 96.4% |
| Carmarthenshire 026B | 1,484 | 147.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 95.1% |
| Carmarthenshire 026D | 1,302 | 118.0 per 1,000 | 3 | 98.0% |
| Carmarthenshire 026E | 1,199 | 426.1 per 1,000 | 1 | 97.2% |
| Carmarthenshire 026F | 1,399 | 170.7 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.4% |
| Carmarthenshire 026G | 1,764 | 86.9 per 1,000 | 5 | 96.6% |
| Carmarthenshire 026H | 1,372 | 245.3 per 1,000 | 1 | 96.2% |
Your MP
- Dame Nia GriffithLabourMP for Llanelli
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 Llanelli2
Middle areas in Llanelli6
Towns near Llanelli6
Llanelli in brief
Llanelli is a town in Carmarthenshire, Wales.
About 42,518 people lived in Llanelli in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £152,944 in 2025 across 478 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 142.5 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Llanelli was £152,944 in 2025.
Llanelli had 42,143 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Llanelli live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Llanelli, 94.5% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.