Porth
TownTown in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales.
Porth is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Porth 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 Porth, 74.2% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
How Porth compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Porth safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Porth at a rate of 100.9 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 96.7 per 1,000 people across Wales.
In August 2026 alone, 148 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Porth.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (597), other crime (272) and anti-social behaviour (204).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Porth was 109.7 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 Porth, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Porth has no single figure. Of its 9 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (Wales’s most deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 3: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in Wales.
Neighbourhoods in Porth
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rhondda Cynon Taf 017A | 1,285 | 35.4 per 1,000 | 4 | 16.7% |
| Rhondda Cynon Taf 017B | 1,409 | 122.7 per 1,000 | 5 | 87.4% |
| Rhondda Cynon Taf 017C | 1,543 | 61.6 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.9% |
| Rhondda Cynon Taf 017D | 1,433 | 155.1 per 1,000 | 3 | 75.1% |
| Rhondda Cynon Taf 017F | 1,693 | 45.6 per 1,000 | 6 | 95.2% |
| Rhondda Cynon Taf 020A | 1,396 | 82.3 per 1,000 | 5 | 76.6% |
| Rhondda Cynon Taf 020B | 1,357 | 101.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 91.3% |
| Rhondda Cynon Taf 020C | 1,414 | 119.1 per 1,000 | 1 | 77.3% |
| Rhondda Cynon Taf 020D | 1,283 | 177.6 per 1,000 | 3 | 57.5% |
Your MP
- Chris BryantLabourMP for Rhondda and Ogmore
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 Porth2
Middle areas in Porth2
Towns near Porth6
Porth in brief
Porth is a town in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales.
About 13,451 people lived in Porth in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £128,000 in 2025 across 159 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 100.9 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Porth was £128,000 in 2025.
Porth had 13,352 usual residents at the census.
In Porth, 74.2% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Porth, 3.7% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.