Town guide · Town · Wales
Explore house prices and housing, home energy and crime and safety in Aberdare. This local area guide brings together 468 published figures for this town in Wales, with the source and date shown for each.
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In line with Average across published towns and cities in Wales
1,286.877 above Average across published towns and cities in Wales
£51,077 below Average across published towns and cities in Wales
17 percentage points above Average across published towns and cities in Wales
In line with Average across published towns and cities in Wales
In line with Average across published towns and cities in Wales
1.7 percentage points above Average across published towns and cities in Wales
5.3 percentage points above Average across published towns and cities in Wales
£10,445 below Average across published towns and cities in Wales
£17,033 below Average across published towns and cities in Wales
The scale is logarithmic, with marks at 100 m, 1 km and 10 km.
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Homes & housing costs · Higher than most
2,527
Among the highest 10% of the 106 towns and cities in Wales.
Price Paid Data · July 2026
Homes & housing costs · Lower than most
£117,500
Among the lowest 10% of the 106 towns and cities in Wales.
Price Paid Data · July 2026
Homes & housing costs · Lower than most
£66,000
Among the lowest 10% of the 104 towns and cities in Wales.
Price Paid Data · July 2026
Homes & housing costs · Higher than most
370
Among the highest 10% of the 106 towns and cities in Wales.
Price Paid Data · July 2026
Crime & emergency services · Lower than most
4
Among the lowest 10% of the 106 towns and cities in Wales.
Police.uk street-level crime and outcomes · 2026-06
Crime & emergency services · Lower than most
2
Among the lowest 10% of the 106 towns and cities in Wales.
Police.uk street-level crime and outcomes · 2026-06
Local energy · Higher than most
2
Among the highest 10% of the 106 towns and cities in Wales.
Renewable Energy Planning Database · Q2 2026
Local energy · Higher than most
98.2 MW
Among the highest 10% of the 106 towns and cities in Wales.
Renewable Energy Planning Database · Q2 2026
Nature & green space · Higher than most
2.8 km
Among the highest 10% of the 106 towns and cities in Wales.
OS Open Greenspace · 2026-04
Transport & getting around · Higher than most
2
Among the highest 10% of the 106 towns and cities in Wales.
STATS19 road safety open data · 2021 to 2025
Shops, food & amenities · Lower than most
26
Among the lowest 10% of the 107 towns and cities in Wales.
Food Hygiene Rating Scheme · 2026-10-02
Shops, food & amenities · Lower than most
17
Among the lowest 10% of the 107 towns and cities in Wales.
Food Hygiene Rating Scheme · 2026-10-02
Shops, food & amenities · Lower than most
0
Among the lowest 10% of the 106 towns and cities in Wales.
OpenStreetMap · 2026-08-23
Every figure belongs to one of these groups, so you always know whether you are reading about the whole place, a neighbourhood, or the wider council area.
108
Whole town
Totals and figures for the town boundary
39
Neighbourhood range
Lowest, median and highest across local areas
254
Around the centre
A representative location in the town
67
Wider council area
Named council areas around the town
The small numbers after figure labels refer to this key. They show how a figure was made, not how accurate it is. Open any figure to see its source, date and important limits.
Published council-wide context for councils linked to Aberdare, not a finding about the whole place or a property.
These records are published for councils linked to known active postcodes in this place. The councils cover a wider area: a listed designation is not a finding that it intersects this town or any property. The list may not be exhaustive. AQMAs are management designations, not measured pollution concentrations, property exposure or clean-air charging zones. Absence of a designation is not evidence of clean air. Great Britain only; Northern Ireland mapping is not included.
Rhondda Cynon Taf · council-wide context
Declared pollutant objectives: nitrogen dioxide.
All roadside properties along Gelliwastad Road and Morgan Street west to the junction of Gelliwastad Road and Gelliwastad Grove.
Official UK-AIR designation recordRhondda Cynon Taf · council-wide context
Declared pollutant objectives: nitrogen dioxide.
An area encompassing properties along both sides of East Road, Tylorstown, between numbers 7 and 254 to the north and number 31 to the south.
Official UK-AIR designation recordRhondda Cynon Taf · council-wide context
Declared pollutant objectives: nitrogen dioxide.
An area encompassing properties along High Street and Duffryn Street (to the junction with Brook Street) in Ferndale.
Official UK-AIR designation recordRhondda Cynon Taf · council-wide context
Declared pollutant objectives: nitrogen dioxide.
An area encompassing the New Road/Ffrwd Crescent gyratory, the bridge, and properties along Oxford Street between Pryce Street and Henry Street.
Official UK-AIR designation recordRhondda Cynon Taf · council-wide context
Declared pollutant objectives: nitrogen dioxide.
An area encompassing all roadside properties from 5 Nightingales Bush to 46 Pentrebach Road (alongside the A470).
Official UK-AIR designation recordRhondda Cynon Taf · council-wide context
Declared pollutant objectives: nitrogen dioxide.
Including all roadside properties from 30 High Street and 227 High Street, Porth via High Street and Trebanog Road to 37 Trebanog Road and 247 Trebanog Road, Trebanog
Official UK-AIR designation recordRegister snapshot: 2026-10-20. Imported 25 October 2026.
Broadband and mobile connectivity
Ofcom publishes these fixed-broadband, full-fibre take-up and mobile coverage profiles for named local and unitary authorities, rather than for town boundaries. They are shown as wider council-area context for Aberdare; availability figures are provider predictions, not measurements at every address.
These highlights come from complete all-premises and residential broadband profiles, both published full-fibre take-up measures, the complete 2G, 3G, 4G, voice, 5G and standalone-5G network-count profiles, and the premises and grid-pixel counts used as the mobile basis. View every published broadband, full-fibre and mobile value.
Published source details for this wider council-area context:
468 sourced figures are listed here with the source, period and geography. Open a topic above for comparisons and detailed explanations.