Tredegar
TownTown in Blaenau Gwent, Wales.
Tredegar is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Tredegar 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 46% of people in Tredegar live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Tredegar compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Tredegar safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Tredegar at a rate of 179.0 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 96.7 per 1,000 people across Wales.
In August 2026 alone, 264 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Tredegar.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (834), anti-social behaviour (560) and other crime (536).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Tredegar was 158.4 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 Tredegar, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Tredegar has no single figure. Of its 10 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (Wales’s most deprived 10%): 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 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 Tredegar
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blaenau Gwent 003A | 1,374 | 85.3 per 1,000 | 8 | 90.5% |
| Blaenau Gwent 003B | 1,269 | 144.2 per 1,000 | 1 | 85.7% |
| Blaenau Gwent 003C | 1,424 | 203.7 per 1,000 | 3 | 83.0% |
| Blaenau Gwent 003D | 1,127 | 184.0 per 1,000 | 6 | 98.9% |
| Blaenau Gwent 003E | 1,466 | 145.8 per 1,000 | 1 | 98.6% |
| Blaenau Gwent 006A | 1,816 | 102.1 per 1,000 | 6 | 86.4% |
| Blaenau Gwent 006B | 1,789 | 84.8 per 1,000 | 6 | 98.6% |
| Blaenau Gwent 006C | 1,366 | 163.5 per 1,000 | 5 | 88.2% |
| Blaenau Gwent 006D | 1,476 | 111.8 per 1,000 | 1 | 96.4% |
| Blaenau Gwent 006E | 1,633 | 548.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 65.5% |
Your MP
- Nick SmithLabourMP for Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney
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 Tredegar1
Middle areas in Tredegar2
Towns near Tredegar6
Tredegar in brief
Tredegar is a town in Blaenau Gwent, Wales.
About 14,466 people lived in Tredegar in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £145,000 in 2025 across 177 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 179.0 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Tredegar was £145,000 in 2025.
Tredegar had 14,534 usual residents at the census.
About 46% of people in Tredegar live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Tredegar, 89.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.