# Porthcawl Town in Bridgend, Wales. Porthcawl is a town in Bridgend, Wales. Median sale price £320,000 in 2025. Recorded crime 80.5 per 1,000 people. About 15,932 people. Town. Code W45000598. In: [Towns](https://openindex.co.uk/places/towns) › [Bridgend](https://openindex.co.uk/bridgend) 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. ## Key figures - **Median sale price: £320,000** (2025). The median price paid for a home in Porthcawl was £320,000 in 2025. Joint 361st most expensive of 1,092. Source: Worked out by Open Index from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data. Published 28 September 2026. https://openindex.co.uk/town/porthcawl#f-house-sales-median-price - **Population: 15,797** (2021). Porthcawl had 15,797 usual residents at the census (ONS Census 2021). 546th least populated of 1,209. Source: Census 2021, England and Wales and Scotland's Census 2022 and Census 2021, Northern Ireland, 2021. Published 21 July 2026. https://openindex.co.uk/town/porthcawl#f-population - **People in radon Affected Area squares: 100%** (2022). About 100% of people in Porthcawl live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area. UK 44%. Source: Worked out by Open Index from the UKHSA and BGS radon atlas and census output areas. Published 1 December 2022. https://openindex.co.uk/town/porthcawl#f-radon-affected-share - **Gigabit broadband coverage: 96.7%** (January 2026). In Porthcawl, 96.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026 (Ofcom). UK 87.8%. Source: Connected Nations (Ofcom), January 2026. Published 13 May 2026. https://openindex.co.uk/town/porthcawl#f-gigabit-coverage ## On the map - [Radon Affected Area by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/radon-affected-areas?place=W45000598) (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. - [Sales per year by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/house-sales-per-year?place=W45000598) (Worked out by Open Index · 2025): 276 homes were sold in Porthcawl in 2025. - [Crime and ASB by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/recorded-crime?place=W45000598) (Police recorded crime and outcomes (data.police.uk) · August 2026): Crime and anti-social behaviour for Porthcawl. - [Population by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/population?place=W45000598) (Census 2021, England and Wales): Porthcawl had 15,797 usual residents at the census. ## How Porthcawl compares Each town against every other town the measure covers. | Measure | Porthcawl | Rank | Compared with | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Median sale price | £320,000 | joint 2nd most expensive | 76 towns, Wales · 2025 | | Population | 15,797 | 26th most populated | 76 towns, Wales · 2021 | | People in radon Affected Area squares | 100% | joint most people in radon Affected Areas | 76 towns, Wales · 2022 | | Gigabit broadband coverage | 96.7% | joint 11th highest | 76 towns, Wales · Jan 2026 | ## 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 Source: Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in Wales. ## Neighbourhoods in Porthcawl | Area | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [Bridgend 018A](https://openindex.co.uk/bridgend/neighbourhood/w01001031) | 1,474 | 32.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.9% | | [Bridgend 018B](https://openindex.co.uk/bridgend/neighbourhood/w01001032) | 1,760 | 23.8 per 1,000 | 10 | 97.4% | | [Bridgend 018C](https://openindex.co.uk/bridgend/neighbourhood/w01001046) | 1,912 | 160.0 per 1,000 | 5 | 93.8% | | [Bridgend 018D](https://openindex.co.uk/bridgend/neighbourhood/w01001047) | 1,666 | 79.6 per 1,000 | 8 | 97.1% | | [Bridgend 018E](https://openindex.co.uk/bridgend/neighbourhood/w01001053) | 1,010 | 11.8 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% | | [Bridgend 018F](https://openindex.co.uk/bridgend/neighbourhood/w01001054) | 1,348 | 19.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 97.2% | | [Bridgend 019A](https://openindex.co.uk/bridgend/neighbourhood/w01001029) | 1,708 | 27.4 per 1,000 | 9 | 84.7% | | [Bridgend 019B](https://openindex.co.uk/bridgend/neighbourhood/w01001030) | 1,958 | 143.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.5% | | [Bridgend 019C](https://openindex.co.uk/bridgend/neighbourhood/w01001044) | 1,583 | 69.3 per 1,000 | 3 | 89.3% | | [Bridgend 019D](https://openindex.co.uk/bridgend/neighbourhood/w01001045) | 1,709 | 166.7 per 1,000 | 4 | 97.6% | ## Your MP - [Bridgend](https://openindex.co.uk/constituency/bridgend): Chris Elmore (Labour), MP since July 2024. As of 18 October 2026. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API. ## Council [Bridgend](https://openindex.co.uk/bridgend) ## Postcode districts covering Porthcawl [CF36](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/cf36) ## Middle areas in Porthcawl [Porthcawl East](https://openindex.co.uk/bridgend/porthcawl-east), [Porthcawl West](https://openindex.co.uk/bridgend/porthcawl-west) ## Towns near Porthcawl [Pyle](https://openindex.co.uk/town/pyle), [Bridgend](https://openindex.co.uk/town/bridgend), [Port Talbot](https://openindex.co.uk/town/port-talbot), [Sarn](https://openindex.co.uk/town/sarn), [Pencoed](https://openindex.co.uk/town/pencoed), [Maesteg](https://openindex.co.uk/town/maesteg) ## 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. ## About - Type: Town - Code: W45000598 - Constituency: [Bridgend †](https://openindex.co.uk/constituency/bridgend) - Council: [Bridgend †](https://openindex.co.uk/bridgend) - Nation: [Wales](https://openindex.co.uk/wales) - Area: 4.98 km² - People, mid-2024: 15,932* - Neighbourhoods: 10 - Output areas: 55 * People: worked out by Open Index from neighbourhood estimates, shared out by where people lived at the census (by area in Northern Ireland). This area's edges do not follow neighbourhood edges, so the figure is close but not exact. † Best fit: the constituency and council this town mostly lies in. Its edges do not follow theirs. ## Next door [Pyle](https://openindex.co.uk/town/pyle), [Bridgend](https://openindex.co.uk/town/bridgend), [Port Talbot](https://openindex.co.uk/town/port-talbot), [Sarn](https://openindex.co.uk/town/sarn), [Pencoed](https://openindex.co.uk/town/pencoed), [Maesteg](https://openindex.co.uk/town/maesteg) ## Latest updates for Porthcawl - Dental practices updated: NHS England · Oct 2026. - Schools updated: Ofsted · Oct 2026. - GP practices updated: NHS England · Oct 2026. - Schools updated: Department for Education · Oct 2026. The same figures as JSON: https://openindex.co.uk/v1/places/W45000598 ## How to cite Source: Open Index, openindex.co.uk. Link to this page, https://openindex.co.uk/town/porthcawl, or to one figure with its anchor, https://openindex.co.uk/town/porthcawl#f-house-sales-median-price. Open Index's own text and the figures it works out are licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Source data keeps its publishers' licences, named with each figure. Give each figure's period and source with it. Snapshot 2026.10.8, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23508850. The HTML page: https://openindex.co.uk/town/porthcawl