Sarn
TownTown in Bridgend, Wales.
Sarn is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Sarn 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 94% of people in Sarn live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Sarn compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Sarn safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Sarn at a rate of 86.4 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 96.7 per 1,000 people across Wales.
In August 2026 alone, 91 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Sarn.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (467), other crime (215) and anti-social behaviour (120).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Sarn was 89.0 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 Sarn, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Sarn has no single figure. Of its 7 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in Wales.
Neighbourhoods in Sarn
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bridgend 006A | 2,384 | 84.9 per 1,000 | 7 | 96.0% |
| Bridgend 006B | 1,736 | 142.3 per 1,000 | 2 | 98.9% |
| Bridgend 006C | 1,885 | 36.9 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.9% |
| Bridgend 007A | 1,686 | 70.0 per 1,000 | 8 | 92.0% |
| Bridgend 007B | 2,437 | 88.7 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.8% |
| Bridgend 007C | 1,198 | 73.9 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Bridgend 007D | 1,178 | 139.1 per 1,000 | 5 | 99.1% |
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 Sarn1
Middle areas in Sarn2
Towns near Sarn6
Sarn in brief
Sarn is a town in Bridgend, Wales.
About 11,993 people lived in Sarn in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £205,100 in 2025 across 187 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 86.4 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Sarn was £205,100 in 2025.
Sarn had 11,867 usual residents at the census.
About 94% of people in Sarn live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Sarn, 99.0% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.