Pontllanfraith
TownTown in Caerphilly, Wales.
Pontllanfraith is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Pontllanfraith 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 Pontllanfraith live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Pontllanfraith compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Pontllanfraith safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Pontllanfraith at a rate of 95.8 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 96.7 per 1,000 people across Wales.
In August 2026 alone, 80 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Pontllanfraith.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (318), anti-social behaviour (160) and other crime (151).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Pontllanfraith was 73.5 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 Pontllanfraith, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Pontllanfraith has no single figure. Of its 6 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- 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 Pontllanfraith
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Caerphilly 010A | 1,784 | 65.4 per 1,000 | 7 | 93.9% |
| Caerphilly 011A | 2,067 | 95.5 per 1,000 | 4 | 92.0% |
| Caerphilly 011B | 1,600 | 95.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Caerphilly 011C | 1,589 | 167.2 per 1,000 | 6 | 98.6% |
| Caerphilly 011D | 1,347 | 56.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| Caerphilly 011E | 1,778 | 99.9 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.5% |
Your MP
- Chris EvansLabour (Co-op)MP for Caerphilly
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 Pontllanfraith2
Middle areas in Pontllanfraith1
Towns near Pontllanfraith6
Pontllanfraith in brief
Pontllanfraith is a town in Caerphilly, Wales.
About 9,318 people lived in Pontllanfraith in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £210,000 in 2025 across 131 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 95.8 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Pontllanfraith was £210,000 in 2025.
Pontllanfraith had 9,363 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Pontllanfraith live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Pontllanfraith, 96.4% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.