Port Talbot
WardSouth Neath Port Talbot. About 5,818 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 4.0 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 79% of people in Port Talbot live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Port Talbot compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Port Talbot safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Port Talbot at a rate of 126.2 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 83.3 per 1,000 people across Neath Port Talbot.
Across Wales as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.7 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 91 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Port Talbot.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (239), other crime (165) and anti-social behaviour (124).
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.
Figures for the whole of Neath Port Talbot
These figures are published for the whole of Neath Port Talbot, not for each ward, so they describe all of Neath Port Talbot and not Port Talbot alone. See Neath Port Talbot
Port Talbot in brief
Port Talbot had 5,753 usual residents at the census.
About 79% of people in Port Talbot live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Port Talbot, 95.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Port Talbot, 4.8% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.