Pencoed
TownTown in Bridgend, Wales.
Pencoed is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Pencoed 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 96% of people in Pencoed live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Pencoed compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Pencoed safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Pencoed at a rate of 62.4 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 96.7 per 1,000 people across Wales.
In August 2026 alone, 59 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Pencoed.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (261), other crime (133) and anti-social behaviour (75).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Pencoed was 64.7 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 Pencoed, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Pencoed has no single figure. Of its 6 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (Wales’s least deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in Wales.
Neighbourhoods in Pencoed
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bridgend 009A | 1,038 | 179.6 per 1,000 | 4 | 96.1% |
| Bridgend 009B | 1,586 | 52.1 per 1,000 | 8 | 91.5% |
| Bridgend 009C | 2,235 | 20.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 97.5% |
| Bridgend 009D | 1,876 | 67.3 per 1,000 | 5 | 98.9% |
| Bridgend 009E | 1,722 | 47.3 per 1,000 | 7 | 96.6% |
| Bridgend 009F | 1,554 | 43.9 per 1,000 | 8 | 94.0% |
Your MP
- Chris ElmoreLabourMP for Bridgend
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 Pencoed1
Middle areas in Pencoed1
Towns near Pencoed6
Pencoed in brief
Pencoed is a town in Bridgend, Wales.
About 9,068 people lived in Pencoed in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £221,000 in 2025 across 128 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 62.4 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Pencoed was £221,000 in 2025.
Pencoed had 9,119 usual residents at the census.
About 96% of people in Pencoed live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Pencoed, 96.9% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.