Pontypridd
TownTown in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales.
Pontypridd is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Pontypridd 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 Pontypridd live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Pontypridd compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Pontypridd safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Pontypridd at a rate of 103.5 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 96.7 per 1,000 people across Wales.
In August 2026 alone, 308 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Pontypridd.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,451), other crime (728) and shoplifting (368).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Pontypridd was 98.2 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 Pontypridd, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Pontypridd has no single figure. Of its 21 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (Wales’s most deprived 10%): 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 3: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 2 neighbourhoods
Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in Wales.
Neighbourhoods in Pontypridd
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rhondda Cynon Taf 015A | 1,526 | 79.2 per 1,000 | 1 | 0.0% |
| Rhondda Cynon Taf 015B | 1,389 | 68.0 per 1,000 | 3 | 0.0% |
| Rhondda Cynon Taf 019A | 1,594 | 64.1 per 1,000 | 5 | 82.2% |
| Rhondda Cynon Taf 019B | 1,345 | 70.9 per 1,000 | 5 | 87.3% |
| Rhondda Cynon Taf 019C | 1,188 | 38.7 per 1,000 | 5 | 85.6% |
| Rhondda Cynon Taf 019D | 1,226 | 54.4 per 1,000 | 9 | 74.0% |
| Rhondda Cynon Taf 019E | 1,239 | 139.2 per 1,000 | 5 | 72.2% |
| Rhondda Cynon Taf 021C | 1,281 | 30.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 92.2% |
| Rhondda Cynon Taf 021D | 1,629 | 372.6 per 1,000 | 7 | 35.3% |
| Rhondda Cynon Taf 021E | 1,484 | 58.8 per 1,000 | 6 | 52.5% |
| Rhondda Cynon Taf 021F | 1,654 | 92.6 per 1,000 | 3 | 79.2% |
| Rhondda Cynon Taf 021G | 1,610 | 52.7 per 1,000 | 8 | 85.1% |
| Rhondda Cynon Taf 021H | 2,261 | 152.0 per 1,000 | 3 | 77.9% |
| Rhondda Cynon Taf 022A | 2,091 | 84.2 per 1,000 | 3 | 94.6% |
| Rhondda Cynon Taf 022B | 1,449 | 80.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 98.8% |
| Rhondda Cynon Taf 022C | 1,717 | 127.9 per 1,000 | 1 | 96.6% |
| Rhondda Cynon Taf 022D | 1,581 | 124.6 per 1,000 | 5 | 68.9% |
| Rhondda Cynon Taf 022E | 1,681 | 124.7 per 1,000 | 6 | 91.4% |
| Rhondda Cynon Taf 022F | 1,908 | 59.4 per 1,000 | 7 | 92.4% |
| Rhondda Cynon Taf 026A | 2,098 | 111.3 per 1,000 | 7 | 69.3% |
| Rhondda Cynon Taf 026B | 1,297 | 140.2 per 1,000 | 1 | 96.8% |
Your MP
- Alex Davies-JonesLabourMP for Pontypridd
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 Pontypridd1
Middle areas in Pontypridd3
Towns near Pontypridd6
Pontypridd in brief
Pontypridd is a town in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales.
About 33,851 people lived in Pontypridd in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £160,000 in 2025 across 433 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 103.5 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Pontypridd was £160,000 in 2025.
Pontypridd had 31,895 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Pontypridd live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Pontypridd, 73.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.