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Caerphilly

Town

Town in Caerphilly, Wales.

Caerphilly is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Caerphilly 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.

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Gigabit coverage by town

Connected Nations (Ofcom) · January 2026

Under 60%98% or more

In Caerphilly, 94.4% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.

Median sale price
£235,000
Joint 397th cheapest of 1,092
Worked out by Open Index
Population
33,104
338th most populated of 1,209
ONS Census 2021 · 2021
Gigabit broadband coverage
94.4%
UK 87.8%
Ofcom · Jan 2026
Claimant rate
3.2%
UK 3.9%
ONS via Nomis · Aug 2026

How Caerphilly compares

Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.

CaerphillyMiddle
Median sale price76 towns, Wales · 2025
Median sale price: every town in Wales76 areas from £120,000 to £344,000. The middle area is £194,375. Caerphilly is £235,000.
£235,000joint 13th most expensive
Population76 towns, Wales · 2021
Population: every town in Wales76 areas from 7,546 to 348,511. The middle area is 13,457. Caerphilly is 33,104.
33,10412th most populated
Gigabit broadband coverage76 towns, Wales · Jan 2026
Gigabit broadband coverage: every town in Wales76 areas from 55.2% to 99.0%. The middle area is 93.5%. Caerphilly is 94.4%.
94.4%joint 33rd highest
Claimant rate76 towns, Wales · Aug 2026
Claimant rate: every town in Wales76 areas from 1.1% to 6.1%. The middle area is 3.4%. Caerphilly is 3.2%.
3.2%joint 30th lowest

Is Caerphilly safe? What police records show

In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Caerphilly at a rate of 114.8 per 1,000 people.

That compares with 96.7 per 1,000 people across Wales.

In August 2026 alone, 360 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Caerphilly.

In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,380), anti-social behaviour (743) and other crime (689).

A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Caerphilly was 114.8 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 Caerphilly, neighbourhood by neighbourhood

  • Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Caerphilly has no single figure. Of its 20 neighbourhoods with a rank:
  • Decile 1 (Wales’s most deprived 10%): 3 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
  • Decile 3: 3 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
  • Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
  • Decile 8: 3 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 9: 4 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 10 (Wales’s least deprived 10%): 2 neighbourhoods

Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in Wales.

Neighbourhoods in Caerphilly

NamePeople (census)Recorded crime per 1,000Deprivation decileGigabit broadband
Caerphilly 019D1,34668.4 per 1,000399.8%
Caerphilly 019E1,57462.8 per 1,000885.3%
Caerphilly 019F1,42087.7 per 1,000199.1%
Caerphilly 022A1,916118.8 per 1,000384.9%
Caerphilly 022B1,796106.0 per 1,000797.2%
Caerphilly 022C1,94095.2 per 1,000696.5%
Caerphilly 022D1,21169.2 per 1,000998.8%
Caerphilly 022E1,440209.2 per 1,000195.2%
Caerphilly 022F1,470262.5 per 1,000197.6%
Caerphilly 023A1,829144.9 per 1,000699.1%
Caerphilly 023B1,29568.1 per 1,0001098.3%
Caerphilly 023C1,31297.6 per 1,000396.7%
Caerphilly 023D1,539158.1 per 1,000298.2%
Caerphilly 023E1,25437.0 per 1,000899.5%
Caerphilly 024A2,79240.6 per 1,000994.5%
Caerphilly 024B1,37968.7 per 1,000986.4%
Caerphilly 024C1,407329.9 per 1,000492.0%
Caerphilly 024D1,736185.0 per 1,000893.3%
Caerphilly 024E1,45996.6 per 1,000989.1%
Caerphilly 024F1,85021.2 per 1,00010100.0%

Your MP

As of , from the UK Parliament Members API. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.

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Postcode districts covering Caerphilly1

Middle areas in Caerphilly3

Towns near Caerphilly6

Caerphilly in brief

Caerphilly is a town in Caerphilly, Wales.

About 33,389 people lived in Caerphilly in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £235,000 in 2025 across 456 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 114.8 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).

The median price paid for a home in Caerphilly was £235,000 in 2025.

Caerphilly had 33,104 usual residents at the census.

In Caerphilly, 94.4% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.

In Caerphilly, 3.2% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.