Penarth
TownTown in Vale of Glamorgan and Cardiff, Wales.
Penarth is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Penarth 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 54% of people in Penarth live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Penarth compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Penarth safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Penarth at a rate of 59.3 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 96.7 per 1,000 people across Wales.
In August 2026 alone, 158 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Penarth.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (592), other crime (364) and shoplifting (192).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Penarth was 58.2 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 Penarth, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Penarth has no single figure. Of its 19 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 6 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (Wales’s least deprived 10%): 7 neighbourhoods
Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in Wales.
Neighbourhoods in Penarth
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cardiff 048F | 1,118 | No figure | 9 | 100.0% |
| Cardiff 048G | 1,114 | 47.8 per 1,000 | 7 | 87.0% |
| Vale of Glamorgan 004A | 1,175 | 31.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.6% |
| Vale of Glamorgan 004B | 1,385 | 104.7 per 1,000 | 7 | 95.5% |
| Vale of Glamorgan 004C | 1,407 | 51.0 per 1,000 | 8 | 98.8% |
| Vale of Glamorgan 004D | 1,284 | 18.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| Vale of Glamorgan 004E | 2,090 | 136.3 per 1,000 | 9 | 91.5% |
| Vale of Glamorgan 004F | 1,656 | 32.2 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.2% |
| Vale of Glamorgan 005A | 1,930 | 34.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 87.1% |
| Vale of Glamorgan 005B | 1,471 | 67.4 per 1,000 | 10 | 91.4% |
| Vale of Glamorgan 005C | 1,462 | 135.2 per 1,000 | 9 | 89.3% |
| Vale of Glamorgan 005D | 1,426 | 131.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 93.7% |
| Vale of Glamorgan 005F | 1,266 | 20.4 per 1,000 | 10 | 97.9% |
| Vale of Glamorgan 005G | 1,553 | 58.4 per 1,000 | 8 | 85.7% |
| Vale of Glamorgan 005H | 1,066 | 51.0 per 1,000 | 9 | 92.9% |
| Vale of Glamorgan 008A | 1,572 | 30.1 per 1,000 | 10 | 47.9% |
| Vale of Glamorgan 008B | 2,148 | 17.9 per 1,000 | 10 | 94.2% |
| Vale of Glamorgan 008C | 1,743 | 74.0 per 1,000 | 5 | 69.6% |
| Vale of Glamorgan 008F | 1,111 | 59.5 per 1,000 | 9 | 72.0% |
Your MP
- Stephen DoughtyLabour (Co-op)MP for Cardiff South and Penarth
As of , from the UK Parliament Members API. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.
Councils Penarth sits in2
Postcode districts covering Penarth2
Middle areas in Penarth3
Towns near Penarth6
Penarth in brief
Penarth is a town in Vale of Glamorgan and Cardiff, Wales.
About 28,739 people lived in Penarth in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £300,000 in 2025 across 493 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 59.3 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Penarth was £300,000 in 2025.
Penarth had 28,391 usual residents at the census.
About 54% of people in Penarth live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Penarth, 89.4% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.