Monmouth
TownTown in Monmouthshire, Wales.
Monmouth is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Monmouth 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 28% of people in Monmouth live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Monmouth compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Monmouth safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Monmouth at a rate of 87.8 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 96.7 per 1,000 people across Wales.
In August 2026 alone, 66 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Monmouth.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (291), shoplifting (179) and other crime (154).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Monmouth was 100.8 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 Monmouth, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Monmouth has no single figure. Of its 7 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
- 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 Monmouth
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monmouthshire 004A | 1,510 | 12.8 per 1,000 | 10 | 88.9% |
| Monmouthshire 004C | 1,523 | 214.3 per 1,000 | 9 | 37.5% |
| Monmouthshire 004D | 1,073 | 145.5 per 1,000 | 6 | 85.0% |
| Monmouthshire 004E | 1,291 | 98.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 55.5% |
| Monmouthshire 004F | 2,125 | 59.7 per 1,000 | 5 | 84.0% |
| Monmouthshire 004G | 1,491 | 112.9 per 1,000 | 6 | 82.7% |
| Monmouthshire 004H | 2,036 | 21.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
Your MP
- Catherine FookesLabourMP for Monmouthshire
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 Monmouth1
Middle areas in Monmouth1
Towns near Monmouth6
Monmouth in brief
Monmouth is a town in Monmouthshire, Wales.
About 10,349 people lived in Monmouth in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £292,500 in 2025 across 174 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 87.8 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Monmouth was £292,500 in 2025.
Monmouth had 10,330 usual residents at the census.
About 28% of people in Monmouth live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Monmouth, 74.8% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.