Rhondda
TownTown in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales.
Rhondda is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Rhondda 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 Rhondda live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Rhondda compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Rhondda safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Rhondda at a rate of 87.3 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 96.7 per 1,000 people across Wales.
In August 2026 alone, 87 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Rhondda.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (534), other crime (284) and anti-social behaviour (130).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Rhondda was 91.1 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 Rhondda, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Rhondda has no single figure. Of its 8 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in Wales.
Neighbourhoods in Rhondda
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rhondda Cynon Taf 011B | 1,292 | 22.5 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.3% |
| Rhondda Cynon Taf 011D | 1,524 | 58.3 per 1,000 | 4 | 97.9% |
| Rhondda Cynon Taf 011E | 2,484 | 110.1 per 1,000 | 3 | 90.7% |
| Rhondda Cynon Taf 014D | 1,363 | 90.2 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.1% |
| Rhondda Cynon Taf 014E | 1,476 | 54.1 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.5% |
| Rhondda Cynon Taf 014F | 1,456 | 60.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.6% |
| Rhondda Cynon Taf 014G | 1,425 | 137.5 per 1,000 | 2 | 88.3% |
| Rhondda Cynon Taf 014H | 2,247 | 123.0 per 1,000 | 2 | 95.6% |
Your MP
- Chris BryantLabourMP for Rhondda and Ogmore
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 Rhondda2
Middle areas in Rhondda2
Towns near Rhondda6
Rhondda in brief
Rhondda is a town in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales.
About 13,398 people lived in Rhondda in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £128,225 in 2025 across 136 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 87.3 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Rhondda was £128,225 in 2025.
Rhondda had 13,271 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Rhondda live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Rhondda, 95.4% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.