Ystalyfera
TownTown in Neath Port Talbot and Powys, Wales.
Ystalyfera is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Ystalyfera 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 55% of people in Ystalyfera live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Ystalyfera compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Ystalyfera safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Ystalyfera at a rate of 75.4 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 96.7 per 1,000 people across Wales.
In August 2026 alone, 53 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Ystalyfera.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (299), other crime (101) and criminal damage and arson (55).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Ystalyfera was 75.8 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 Ystalyfera, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Ystalyfera has no single figure. Of its 5 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in Wales.
Neighbourhoods in Ystalyfera
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Neath Port Talbot 020B | 2,078 | 56.2 per 1,000 | 4 | 85.2% |
| Neath Port Talbot 020F | 1,328 | 74.6 per 1,000 | 2 | 85.6% |
| Neath Port Talbot 020G | 1,411 | 70.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 73.6% |
| Powys 021C | 2,064 | 118.8 per 1,000 | 7 | 77.2% |
| Powys 021F | 2,219 | 62.8 per 1,000 | 4 | 72.2% |
Your MP
- David ChadwickLiberal DemocratMP for Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe
As of , from the UK Parliament Members API. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.
Councils Ystalyfera sits in2
Postcode districts covering Ystalyfera1
Towns near Ystalyfera6
Ystalyfera in brief
Ystalyfera is a town in Neath Port Talbot and Powys, Wales.
About 7,800 people lived in Ystalyfera in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £162,000 in 2025 across 95 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 75.4 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Ystalyfera was £162,000 in 2025.
Ystalyfera had 7,831 usual residents at the census.
About 55% of people in Ystalyfera live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Ystalyfera, 80.6% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.