Pontypool
TownTown in Torfaen, Wales.
Pontypool is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Pontypool 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 Pontypool live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Pontypool compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Pontypool safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Pontypool at a rate of 112.0 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 96.7 per 1,000 people across Wales.
In August 2026 alone, 319 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Pontypool.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,295), other crime (649) and anti-social behaviour (525).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Pontypool was 116.7 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 Pontypool, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Pontypool has no single figure. Of its 19 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (Wales’s most deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 2: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 3 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 Pontypool
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Torfaen 003A | 1,842 | 62.7 per 1,000 | 3 | 98.1% |
| Torfaen 003B | 2,036 | 120.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 88.5% |
| Torfaen 003C | 1,792 | 156.0 per 1,000 | 1 | 98.2% |
| Torfaen 003D | 1,673 | 120.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 90.0% |
| Torfaen 004A | 1,701 | 110.8 per 1,000 | 3 | 96.7% |
| Torfaen 004B | 1,466 | 98.5 per 1,000 | 2 | 85.6% |
| Torfaen 004C | 1,422 | 94.2 per 1,000 | 5 | 94.8% |
| Torfaen 004D | 1,855 | 367.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 52.6% |
| Torfaen 004E | 1,269 | 108.3 per 1,000 | 7 | 93.5% |
| Torfaen 004F | 1,157 | 87.5 per 1,000 | 4 | 84.9% |
| Torfaen 005A | 1,597 | 87.9 per 1,000 | 7 | 89.8% |
| Torfaen 005B | 1,538 | 63.7 per 1,000 | 6 | 92.1% |
| Torfaen 005C | 1,294 | 12.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 96.7% |
| Torfaen 005D | 1,466 | 73.2 per 1,000 | 10 | 71.2% |
| Torfaen 006A | 1,079 | 65.5 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
| Torfaen 006B | 1,393 | 229.3 per 1,000 | 7 | 85.7% |
| Torfaen 006C | 1,435 | 143.5 per 1,000 | 3 | 98.0% |
| Torfaen 006D | 2,441 | 55.5 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.4% |
| Torfaen 006E | 1,132 | 44.2 per 1,000 | 9 | 100.0% |
Your MP
- Nick Thomas-SymondsLabourMP for Torfaen
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 Pontypool1
Middle areas in Pontypool4
Towns near Pontypool6
Pontypool in brief
Pontypool is a town in Torfaen, Wales.
About 29,145 people lived in Pontypool in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £194,000 in 2025 across 355 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 112.0 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Pontypool was £194,000 in 2025.
Pontypool had 29,070 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Pontypool live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Pontypool, 90.5% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.