Tonyrefail
TownTown in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales.
Tonyrefail is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Tonyrefail 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 Tonyrefail live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Tonyrefail compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Tonyrefail safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Tonyrefail at a rate of 78.9 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 96.7 per 1,000 people across Wales.
In August 2026 alone, 119 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Tonyrefail.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (443), other crime (212) and anti-social behaviour (89).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Tonyrefail was 86.4 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 Tonyrefail, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Tonyrefail has no single figure. Of its 7 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (Wales’s most deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 10 (Wales’s least deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in Wales.
Neighbourhoods in Tonyrefail
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rhondda Cynon Taf 023E | 2,022 | 89.7 per 1,000 | 3 | 91.8% |
| Rhondda Cynon Taf 023F | 1,916 | 26.3 per 1,000 | 10 | 94.9% |
| Rhondda Cynon Taf 023G | 1,450 | 106.7 per 1,000 | 5 | 90.3% |
| Rhondda Cynon Taf 024A | 1,452 | 109.7 per 1,000 | 4 | 93.1% |
| Rhondda Cynon Taf 024B | 1,523 | 48.9 per 1,000 | 7 | 84.2% |
| Rhondda Cynon Taf 024C | 1,513 | 147.0 per 1,000 | 1 | 93.7% |
| Rhondda Cynon Taf 024D | 1,565 | 34.5 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.1% |
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 Tonyrefail1
Middle areas in Tonyrefail2
Towns near Tonyrefail6
Tonyrefail in brief
Tonyrefail is a town in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales.
About 11,989 people lived in Tonyrefail in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £192,000 in 2025 across 142 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 78.9 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Tonyrefail was £192,000 in 2025.
Tonyrefail had 11,443 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Tonyrefail live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Tonyrefail, 92.4% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.