Porthcawl
TownTown in Bridgend, Wales.
Porthcawl is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Porthcawl 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 Porthcawl live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Porthcawl compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Porthcawl safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Porthcawl at a rate of 80.5 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 96.7 per 1,000 people across Wales.
In August 2026 alone, 140 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Porthcawl.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (506), other crime (239) and shoplifting (166).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Porthcawl was 75.4 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 Porthcawl, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Porthcawl has no single figure. Of its 10 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (Wales’s least deprived 10%): 4 neighbourhoods
Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in Wales.
Neighbourhoods in Porthcawl
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bridgend 018A | 1,474 | 32.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.9% |
| Bridgend 018B | 1,760 | 23.8 per 1,000 | 10 | 97.4% |
| Bridgend 018C | 1,912 | 160.0 per 1,000 | 5 | 93.8% |
| Bridgend 018D | 1,666 | 79.6 per 1,000 | 8 | 97.1% |
| Bridgend 018E | 1,010 | 11.8 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| Bridgend 018F | 1,348 | 19.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 97.2% |
| Bridgend 019A | 1,708 | 27.4 per 1,000 | 9 | 84.7% |
| Bridgend 019B | 1,958 | 143.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.5% |
| Bridgend 019C | 1,583 | 69.3 per 1,000 | 3 | 89.3% |
| Bridgend 019D | 1,709 | 166.7 per 1,000 | 4 | 97.6% |
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 Porthcawl1
Middle areas in Porthcawl2
Towns near Porthcawl6
Porthcawl in brief
Porthcawl is a town in Bridgend, Wales.
About 15,932 people lived in Porthcawl in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £320,000 in 2025 across 276 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 80.5 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Porthcawl was £320,000 in 2025.
Porthcawl had 15,797 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Porthcawl live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Porthcawl, 96.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.