Port Talbot
TownTown in Neath Port Talbot, Wales.
Port Talbot is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Port Talbot 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 46% of people in Port Talbot live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Port Talbot compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Port Talbot safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Port Talbot at a rate of 113.6 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 96.7 per 1,000 people across Wales.
In August 2026 alone, 418 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Port Talbot.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,435), other crime (740) and anti-social behaviour (541).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Port Talbot was 118.0 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 Port Talbot, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Port Talbot has no single figure. Of its 21 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (Wales’s most deprived 10%): 7 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in Wales.
Neighbourhoods in Port Talbot
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Neath Port Talbot 015A | 1,807 | 98.9 per 1,000 | 6 | 93.3% |
| Neath Port Talbot 016A | 1,319 | 62.1 per 1,000 | 7 | 88.1% |
| Neath Port Talbot 016B | 1,553 | 95.6 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.9% |
| Neath Port Talbot 016C | 1,584 | 100.0 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.9% |
| Neath Port Talbot 016D | 1,535 | 121.3 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.8% |
| Neath Port Talbot 016E | 1,856 | 69.3 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.6% |
| Neath Port Talbot 016F | 1,810 | 134.4 per 1,000 | 2 | 94.8% |
| Neath Port Talbot 017A | 1,281 | 197.6 per 1,000 | 2 | 93.2% |
| Neath Port Talbot 017B | 1,452 | 133.1 per 1,000 | 1 | 86.7% |
| Neath Port Talbot 017C | 1,621 | 135.0 per 1,000 | 1 | 97.7% |
| Neath Port Talbot 017D | 1,616 | 150.0 per 1,000 | 1 | 98.2% |
| Neath Port Talbot 017E | 1,723 | 136.9 per 1,000 | 6 | 94.4% |
| Neath Port Talbot 017F | 1,772 | 64.8 per 1,000 | 3 | 93.4% |
| Neath Port Talbot 018A | 1,322 | 34.5 per 1,000 | 5 | 95.0% |
| Neath Port Talbot 018B | 1,470 | 137.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 95.8% |
| Neath Port Talbot 018C | 1,794 | 208.6 per 1,000 | 2 | 93.9% |
| Neath Port Talbot 018D | 1,170 | 77.5 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.8% |
| Neath Port Talbot 018E | 1,436 | 72.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 97.4% |
| Neath Port Talbot 019A | 1,033 | 112.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 87.9% |
| Neath Port Talbot 019C | 1,415 | 135.7 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.6% |
| Neath Port Talbot 019D | 1,967 | 48.4 per 1,000 | 4 | 98.9% |
Your MP
- Stephen KinnockLabourMP for Aberafan Maesteg
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 Port Talbot2
Middle areas in Port Talbot4
Towns near Port Talbot6
Port Talbot in brief
Port Talbot is a town in Neath Port Talbot, Wales.
About 31,825 people lived in Port Talbot in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £155,000 in 2025 across 370 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 113.6 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Port Talbot was £155,000 in 2025.
Port Talbot had 31,557 usual residents at the census.
About 46% of people in Port Talbot live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Port Talbot, 95.5% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.