Maesteg
TownTown in Bridgend, Wales.
Maesteg is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Maesteg 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.
Gigabit coverage by town
Connected Nations (Ofcom) · January 2026
In Maesteg, 98.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
How Maesteg compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Maesteg safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Maesteg at a rate of 100.1 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 96.7 per 1,000 people across Wales.
In August 2026 alone, 183 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Maesteg.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (722), other crime (334) and anti-social behaviour (247).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Maesteg was 102.9 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 Maesteg, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Maesteg has no single figure. Of its 13 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (Wales’s most deprived 10%): 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 2 neighbourhoods
Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in Wales.
Neighbourhoods in Maesteg
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bridgend 001A | 1,141 | 114.0 per 1,000 | 1 | 95.8% |
| Bridgend 001B | 1,395 | 96.8 per 1,000 | 1 | 99.7% |
| Bridgend 001C | 1,364 | 113.5 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Bridgend 001D | 1,402 | 67.9 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.4% |
| Bridgend 001E | 1,363 | 58.4 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.4% |
| Bridgend 002A | 1,608 | 272.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 97.0% |
| Bridgend 002B | 1,457 | 57.3 per 1,000 | 3 | 97.6% |
| Bridgend 002C | 1,465 | 145.2 per 1,000 | 7 | 95.1% |
| Bridgend 002D | 1,281 | 156.4 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.1% |
| Bridgend 002E | 1,364 | 115.0 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.6% |
| Bridgend 005A | 1,507 | 16.4 per 1,000 | 7 | 84.7% |
| Bridgend 005C | 1,633 | 50.3 per 1,000 | 6 | 100.0% |
| Bridgend 005D | 1,575 | 36.4 per 1,000 | 3 | 97.3% |
Your MP
- Stephen KinnockLabourMP for Aberafan Maesteg
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 Maesteg1
Middle areas in Maesteg3
Towns near Maesteg6
Maesteg in brief
Maesteg is a town in Bridgend, Wales.
About 18,316 people lived in Maesteg in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £137,750 in 2025 across 212 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 100.1 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Maesteg was £137,750 in 2025.
Maesteg had 18,342 usual residents at the census.
In Maesteg, 98.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Maesteg, 3.7% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.