Neath
TownTown in Neath Port Talbot, Wales.
Neath is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Neath 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.
Gigabit coverage by town
Connected Nations (Ofcom) · January 2026
In Neath, 95.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
How Neath compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Neath safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Neath at a rate of 90.2 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 96.7 per 1,000 people across Wales.
In August 2026 alone, 280 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Neath.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,664), other crime (825) and anti-social behaviour (480).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Neath was 87.8 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 Neath, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Neath has no single figure. Of its 27 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (Wales’s most deprived 10%): 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 4 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 Neath
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Neath Port Talbot 006C | 1,472 | 34.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| Neath Port Talbot 006D | 1,496 | 60.5 per 1,000 | 7 | 100.0% |
| Neath Port Talbot 006E | 1,582 | 59.7 per 1,000 | 8 | 98.0% |
| Neath Port Talbot 006F | 2,051 | 16.7 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.1% |
| Neath Port Talbot 007B | 1,721 | 61.7 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| Neath Port Talbot 007C | 1,583 | 88.6 per 1,000 | 3 | 89.0% |
| Neath Port Talbot 007E | 2,426 | 59.3 per 1,000 | 7 | 88.9% |
| Neath Port Talbot 008A | 1,251 | 140.4 per 1,000 | 1 | 97.5% |
| Neath Port Talbot 008B | 1,552 | 131.2 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.9% |
| Neath Port Talbot 008C | 1,388 | 74.4 per 1,000 | 8 | 100.0% |
| Neath Port Talbot 008D | 1,150 | 676.2 per 1,000 | 1 | 78.3% |
| Neath Port Talbot 008E | 1,263 | 93.6 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.5% |
| Neath Port Talbot 009A | 1,176 | 53.9 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.4% |
| Neath Port Talbot 009B | 1,370 | 58.8 per 1,000 | 8 | 97.6% |
| Neath Port Talbot 009C | 1,146 | 16.0 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.8% |
| Neath Port Talbot 010A | 1,204 | 80.9 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.8% |
| Neath Port Talbot 010B | 1,157 | 61.8 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.7% |
| Neath Port Talbot 010C | 1,657 | 82.3 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.6% |
| Neath Port Talbot 010D | 1,120 | 80.6 per 1,000 | 4 | 98.9% |
| Neath Port Talbot 010E | 1,175 | 39.1 per 1,000 | 7 | 83.5% |
| Neath Port Talbot 010G | 1,512 | 71.7 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.5% |
| Neath Port Talbot 010H | 1,481 | 44.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 76.5% |
| Neath Port Talbot 012A | 1,377 | 95.0 per 1,000 | 1 | 96.7% |
| Neath Port Talbot 012B | 1,550 | 130.6 per 1,000 | 2 | 98.8% |
| Neath Port Talbot 012C | 1,784 | 80.0 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Neath Port Talbot 012D | 1,471 | 43.4 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.7% |
| Neath Port Talbot 013E | 1,943 | 112.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 93.2% |
Your MP
- Carolyn HarrisLabourMP for Neath and Swansea East
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 Neath2
Middle areas in Neath6
Towns near Neath6
Neath in brief
Neath is a town in Neath Port Talbot, Wales.
About 40,787 people lived in Neath in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £180,000 in 2025 across 592 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 90.2 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Neath was £180,000 in 2025.
Neath had 40,738 usual residents at the census.
In Neath, 95.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Neath, 3.0% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.