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People

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58,972

Resident population · 2024

0.2%

Population change · 2022 to 2024

1.5 percentage points lower than Wales

Wales 1.7%

How do we know this?

Figure	Source	Period	Geography	Method and limits
Resident population Estimated usual resident population (mid-year estimate).	Office for National Statistics Lower layer Super Output Area mid-year population estimates by single year of age (mid-2022 revised, mid-2023, mid-2024) Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0	2024	Merthyr Tydfil (Council area)	aggregated, high quality
Population change 2022 to 2024 (%) Percentage change between mid-2022 (revised) and mid-2024.	Office for National Statistics Lower layer Super Output Area mid-year population estimates by single year of age (mid-2022 revised, mid-2023, mid-2024) Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0	2022-2024	Merthyr Tydfil (Council area)	aggregated, high quality

Method: Mid-year population estimates

ONS mid-year estimates are modelled from the 2021 Census, births, deaths and migration. Mid-2022 is the revised series. Ages are grouped: 0-15 means ages 0 to 15 inclusive, working age 16-64, 65 and over. Change 2022-2024 compares the revised mid-2022 with mid-2024 estimates for the same boundaries. Scotland and Northern Ireland: mid-year estimates for council areas published by ONS from National Records of Scotland and NISRA (via Nomis), for 2022 to 2024, to match the England and Wales years. No small-area (ward or neighbourhood) estimates are held for them.

Homes

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£147,000

Median sale price · Year to Oct 2025

32% lower than Wales

Wales £215,000

2.8%

Change in median sale price · Year to Oct 2025 vs a year earlier

About the same as Wales

Wales 2.4%

How do we know this?

Figure	Source	Period	Geography	Method and limits
Median sale price Median price of homes sold in the 12-month period (needs 10+ sales).	HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (standard price paid, category A) Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0 (HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, Crown copyright)	Year to Oct 2025	Merthyr Tydfil (Council area)	aggregated, high quality
Change in median sale price over a year Percentage change in the median between consecutive 12-month windows. Not mix-adjusted.	HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (standard price paid, category A) Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0 (HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, Crown copyright)	Year to Oct 2025 vs Year to Oct 2024	Merthyr Tydfil (Council area)	aggregated, high quality

Method: Price paid medians

Sales are mapped from postcode to each geography exactly. The headline is the median sale price over the latest 12 COMPLETE months (a month is complete when national standard sales are at least 85% of the average of the 24 months before it; currently November 2024 to October 2025) and the 12 months before that. Months after that (Nov 2025 onward in the April 2026 extract) are still being registered and are excluded. Yearly medians use complete calendar years 2016-2024. Medians need at least 10 sales; sales counts are published for any area. Medians describe homes that sold, not all homes, and are not adjusted for the mix of property types, so a change in the median can reflect what was sold. Registration lags completion, so recent months can be revised up. Only standard price paid sales (category A) are included.

Education

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25%

Adults with a degree-level qualification or above · 2021

6.5 percentage points lower than Wales

Wales 31.5%

26.9%

Adults with no qualifications · 2021

7 percentage points higher than Wales

Wales 19.9%

How do we know this?

Figure	Source	Period	Geography	Method and limits
Adults with a degree-level qualification or above Share of usual residents aged 16 and over whose highest qualification is Level 4 (degree level) or above (Census 2021).	Office for National Statistics Census 2021 bulk tables via Nomis: TS054 tenure, TS045 cars, TS044 accommodation type, TS017 household size, TS052 occupancy rating (bedrooms), TS037 general health, TS067 highest qualification Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0	2021	Merthyr Tydfil (Council area)	direct, high quality
Adults with no qualifications Share of usual residents aged 16 and over with no qualifications (Census 2021).	Office for National Statistics Census 2021 bulk tables via Nomis: TS054 tenure, TS045 cars, TS044 accommodation type, TS017 household size, TS052 occupancy rating (bedrooms), TS037 general health, TS067 highest qualification Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0	2021	Merthyr Tydfil (Council area)	direct, high quality

Method: Census 2021 housing, health and qualifications for Wales

Wales held its census on the same day as England (21 March 2021) with the same questions, so the figures are directly comparable. For Wales we use the published local authority tables. Tenure counts shared ownership with owners; "private rented" includes people who live rent free, as in the England figures. Overcrowding is an occupancy rating of -1 or less for bedrooms. Qualifications are for people aged 16 and over; "no qualifications" and "Level 4 or above" (degree level and above) are shares of all those people. Counts are rounded by random adjustment, so tiny differences from other tables are expected. Wales households per local authority are not split to small areas here.

Economy

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£685

Median weekly pay, full-time employees living here · 2025

5% lower than Wales

Wales £719

23,000

Jobs located in the area · 2024

Fewer jobs per head than Wales here 0.63

Wales 0.69

How do we know this?

Figure	Source	Period	Geography	Method and limits
Median gross weekly pay, full-time employees living here Median gross weekly pay of full-time employees who live in the area (ASHE, place of residence). Cash terms, not inflation adjusted.	Office for National Statistics Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE), via Nomis: tables 7 (place of work) and 8 (place of residence) Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0	2025	Merthyr Tydfil (Council area)	direct, medium quality Coefficient of variation 6.1%.
Jobs located in the area (BRES employment) Employees plus working owners at workplaces in the area (BRES). Rounded; place of work, not residence.	Office for National Statistics Business Register and Employment Survey (BRES), open access, via Nomis Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0	2024	Merthyr Tydfil (Council area)	direct, high quality Rounded by ONS. Compared through jobs per working-age resident (2024): Wales 0.69, here 0.63.

Method: Earnings from the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings

ASHE is a 1% sample of employee jobs from HMRC PAYE records, with a reference week in April. We hold the median gross pay of full-time employees, by place of residence (where the employee lives) and by place of work (where the job is), for the latest survey year and the years back to 2015. Median weekly pay is gross pay before tax for the pay period that includes the reference date; annual pay is gross annual pay for the year to April. Pay is in cash terms: it is not adjusted for inflation, so changes over time include price rises. Survey estimates have a margin of error that grows as areas get smaller; each value carries its coefficient of variation and values with a CV above 10% are marked low quality. Estimates ONS judges too unreliable (CV above about 40%) are not published and appear here as absent. Self-employed people are not covered. Residence-based figures describe people who live in the area wherever they work; workplace-based figures describe jobs located in the area wherever the employee lives. The two can differ a lot in commuter areas and city centres.

Method: Employment by industry (BRES)

BRES is the official source of employee and employment estimates by detailed industry and area. Employment is employees plus working owners, counted at the place of work and in the survey week in September. It covers all sectors except small farm agriculture, and the self-employed who are not registered for PAYE or VAT. ONS rounds BRES employment and suppresses small cells, so industry sums may not add to the total. Jobs here are not residents: people may live elsewhere. Part-time and full-time jobs count equally (they are not full-time equivalents).

Community

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91.7 per 1,000

Recorded crime per 1,000 residents · Year to Apr 2026

36% higher than Wales

Wales 67.6 per 1,000

103

Charities registered here · Oct 2026

Fewer than Wales here 1.8 per 1,000

Wales 2.5 per 1,000

How do we know this?

Figure	Source	Period	Geography	Method and limits
Recorded crime (excluding anti-social behaviour) per 1,000 residents police.uk crime categories except anti-social behaviour, 12 months, per 1,000 residents.	Police forces of England and Wales via data.police.uk Street-level crime (12 monthly files) Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0	Year to Apr 2026	Merthyr Tydfil (Council area)	aggregated, high quality 12 months to April 2026. 2.6% of South Wales Police records have no location and are excluded.
Charities based in the area Registered charities whose registered address is in the area.	Charity Commission for England and Wales; OSCR (Scotland); Charity Commission for Northern Ireland Registers of charities (registered address, latest income, charitable purposes) Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0 (Charity Commission, OSCR and CCNI terms apply: not the register itself, no direct marketing)	Oct 2026	Merthyr Tydfil (Council area)	aggregated, medium quality By registered address. Counts charities by their registered contact address (often a trustee or a head office), not where they work. England and Wales register only. Compared through charities based per 1,000 residents (Oct 2026): Wales 2.5 per 1,000, here 1.8 per 1,000.

Method: Recorded street crime per 1,000 residents

Counts of crimes in police.uk street-level data for May 2025 to April 2026, matched to 2021 LSOAs by the LSOA code on each record, then split to output areas by population and rolled up (see the area apportioning method). Rates are crimes per 1,000 residents (mid-2024 population) and describe where crimes were recorded, not who committed them or where victims live. High rates occur where many non-residents pass through (town centres, transport hubs, nightlife), so they are not a measure of risk to residents. Crimes with no location (blank LSOA) are excluded; the excluded share by force is in the notes. Greater Manchester Police data are absent from the extract, so those areas have no value. Categories follow police.uk. Anti-social behaviour is incident data, not crime proper, and is included only in the "all categories" rate. 12 months only: no trend is possible and seasonal effects are included.

Method: Charities in an area

A charity is placed by the postcode of its registered/contact address (or the nearest postcode to its geocoded address; some are placed by the nearest postcode to a geocoded address), so counts show where charities are based, not where they work: a national charity with a London address is counted in London. Income is the latest annual income on the register, summed; it is dominated by a few very large charities. "Declaring the area" counts charities that name the local authority (or its county) as an area of operation on the register; it does not mean services are delivered everywhere in that area. Registered charities only; unregistered community groups, small charities below the registration threshold and removed charities are not counted.

The future

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How much of the work residents do generally available AI tools could speed up

62.7%16%20.1%

A small part 62.7%
Some 16%
Much 20.1%
Not yet assessed 1.2%

CareerMash staging data (11 Oct 2026), approved by the owner for this preview, subject to change; not yet independently validated

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Homeshigh confidence

Lower than Wales: Change in private rents over a year

Change in private rents over a year is -1.6% in Merthyr Tydfil (Aug 2026), compared with 4.3% in Wales (6.0 percentage points lower).

-1.6% here4.3% Wales

How do we know this?

Source

Office for National Statistics: Price Index of Private Rents, UK: monthly price statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0)

Period

Aug 2026

Geography

Council area, compared with Wales

Method

Private rents (PIPR). The ONS Price Index of Private Rents measures the change in rents paid by private tenants, and publishes an average (mean) monthly rent per local authority from the same data. The figure is a mean, not a median, so a few very high rents pull it up, especially in London and where there are few lettings. It covers rents paid for homes let on the private market (not social rents) and reflects all tenancies in the stock, not only new lets, except in Scotland where the underlying data are mainly advertised new lets, which makes Scotland not directly comparable with England and Wales. Annual change is the change in the rental price index, not in the cash average. Rents are in cash terms, not adjusted for inflation. Averages by number of bedrooms are held for the latest month only.

Limitations

Change in the rental price index.

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Economyhigh confidence

Lower than Wales: Business enterprises per 1,000 residents

Business enterprises per 1,000 residents is 21.3 per 1,000 in Merthyr Tydfil (2026), compared with 33.3 per 1,000 in Wales (about 64% of the Wales rate; n = 58,972).

21.3 per 1,000 here33.3 per 1,000 Wales

How do we know this?

Source

Office for National Statistics: UK Business Counts (Inter-Departmental Business Register), enterprises and local units, via Nomis (Open Government Licence v3.0)

Period

2026

Geography

Council area, compared with Wales

Method

Business counts. UK Business Counts count businesses registered for VAT and/or PAYE on the ONS Inter-Departmental Business Register (IDBR) at a March snapshot. An enterprise is the smallest combination of legal units with a degree of autonomy; a local unit is a single site of an enterprise, counted where the site is. Businesses below the VAT threshold and not running PAYE (many sole traders) are not included, so counts understate the smallest businesses. Counts are rounded to the nearest 5. Enterprises are placed in an area by where their head office or main site is registered with HMRC, which for multi-site firms may not be where staff work: local units are the better guide to where businesses operate. Size bands are by employment (employees plus working proprietors). Industry is the SIC 2007 section of the main activity.

Limitations

Residents are the mid-2024 estimate.

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Economymedium confidence

Increase between 2022 and 2025: Median weekly pay of full-time employees who live in the area

Median weekly pay of full-time employees who live in the area in Merthyr Tydfil went from £540 (2022) to £685 (2025): up 27% (not adjusted for inflation), compared with up 19.0% in Wales.

£685 here£540 same place, 2022

How do we know this?

Source

Office for National Statistics: Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE), via Nomis: tables 7 (place of work) and 8 (place of residence) (Open Government Licence v3.0)

Period

2025

Geography

Council area, compared with same place, 2022

Method

Earnings from the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings. ASHE is a 1% sample of employee jobs from HMRC PAYE records, with a reference week in April. We hold the median gross pay of full-time employees, by place of residence (where the employee lives) and by place of work (where the job is), for the latest survey year and the years back to 2015. Median weekly pay is gross pay before tax for the pay period that includes the reference date; annual pay is gross annual pay for the year to April. Pay is in cash terms: it is not adjusted for inflation, so changes over time include price rises. Survey estimates have a margin of error that grows as areas get smaller; each value carries its coefficient of variation and values with a CV above 10% are marked low quality. Estimates ONS judges too unreliable (CV above about 40%) are not published and appear here as absent. Self-employed people are not covered. Residence-based figures describe people who live in the area wherever they work; workplace-based figures describe jobs located in the area wherever the employee lives. The two can differ a lot in commuter areas and city centres.

Limitations

Coefficient of variation 6.1%. Coefficient of variation 6.7%.
Prices are nominal and not adjusted for inflation or for changes in the mix of homes sold.

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Educationhigh confidence

Higher than Wales: Pupils eligible for free school meals (Wales)

Pupils eligible for free school meals (Wales) is 24.0% in Merthyr Tydfil (2025/26), compared with 20.5% in Wales (3.5 percentage points higher; n = 7,334).

24% here20.5% Wales

How do we know this?

Source

Welsh Government: Schools census: pupils in maintained schools aged 5 to 15 eligible for free school meals, by local authority (Open Government Licence v3.0)

Period

2025/26

Geography

Council area, compared with Wales

Method

School summaries for Wales and Scotland. Wales and Scotland do not publish the same measures as England, and none are comparable with England's Ofsted, Key Stage 2 or GCSE Attainment 8 figures. For Wales we hold the January pupil census: pupils aged 5 to 15 in maintained schools and the share eligible for free school meals (eligibility rules changed with universal primary meals and transitional protection, so compare years with care). For Scotland we hold school-leaver attainment (share of leavers with five or more awards at SCQF level 5 or level 6) and the share in a positive initial destination, by the council area of the school. These describe the pupils and leavers of schools in the area, not its residents. Percentages for small councils rest on small numbers of leavers.

Limitations

Excludes pupils who are only transitionally protected.

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The futurehigh confidence

Residents with a degree-level qualification or above

25% of residents aged 16+ in Merthyr Tydfil hold a Level 4 qualification or above, lower than the 33.8% for England and Wales (Census 2021). This describes the local qualifications profile, shown separately from other measures.

25% here33.8% England and Wales

How do we know this?

Source

not recorded

Period

Census 2021 (21 March 2021)

Geography

Council area, compared with England and Wales

Method

Compared with the same measure for the comparison geography.

Limitations

Highest qualification held, usual residents aged 16+, March 2021.
Not a judgement of residents or of skills.

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The futuremedium confidence

Occupations where AI tools could speed up a small part of the work

An occupation-adjusted estimate puts 62.7% of employed residents of Merthyr Tydfil in occupations where AI tools could already speed up a small part of the work, higher than the 50.8% estimated for England and Wales by the same method. Across all employed residents: 62.7% in occupations where AI tools could speed up a small part of the work, 16% some, 20.1% much, and 1.2% not yet assessed. Based on Census 2021 occupations and the national mix of CareerMash categories inside each occupation group. This is about the tasks in the job, not whether there will be jobs. It does not predict job losses. CareerMash staging data (11 Oct 2026), subject to change.

62.7% here50.8% England and Wales

How do we know this?

Source

not recorded

Period

Census 2021 (21 March 2021)

Geography

Council area, compared with England and Wales

Method

Compared with the same measure for the comparison geography.

Limitations

Estimate for residents, not a count of jobs in the area.
Resident basis: this counts people where they live, not where they work. Some residents work in other areas.
Census occupations are as at 21 March 2021, a COVID-19 period. The CareerMash categories are task evidence dated 11 October 2026. This is not a description of current employment.
Each local figure is an estimate: local occupation shares multiplied by a national mix inside each occupation group. It does not use local employers or local jobs, and a place can differ from the national mix inside a group.
CareerMash staging data (11 Oct 2026), subject to change.

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What's changing

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Recent dated records tied to this place. They are events, not judgements.

30 Oct 2026
Company incorporated New company registered: Prime Property Developments Sw LimitedRegistered office here, which is not necessarily where it operates
27 Oct 2026
Company dissolved Company dissolved: Pencerrig Properties LimitedRegistered office here, which is not necessarily where it operates
27 Oct 2026
Company dissolved Company dissolved: B D T Groundworks LimitedRegistered office here, which is not necessarily where it operates
27 Oct 2026
Company dissolved Company dissolved: McCombie's Coffee LtdRegistered office here, which is not necessarily where it operates

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Sources used on this page

Charity Commission for England and Wales; OSCR (Scotland); Charity Commission for Northern Ireland: Registers of charities (registered address, latest income, charitable purposes)Period: CCEW extract 4 Oct 2026; OSCR 7 Oct 2026 · Published: 4 Oct 2026 · Coverage: United Kingdom (registered charities) · Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0 (Charity Commission, OSCR and CCNI terms apply: not the register itself, no direct marketing)
Police forces of England and Wales via data.police.uk: Street-level crime (12 monthly files)Period: May 2025 to Apr 2026 · Published: Jun 2026 · Coverage: England and Wales except Greater Manchester Police (no data in the loaded files); Northern Ireland records have no LSOA · Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0
HM Land Registry: Price Paid Data (standard price paid, category A)Period: sales to 31 Mar 2026 · Published: Apr 2026 · Coverage: England and Wales · Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0 (HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, Crown copyright)
Office for National Statistics: Lower layer Super Output Area mid-year population estimates by single year of age (mid-2022 revised, mid-2023, mid-2024)Period: mid-2022 (revised), mid-2023, mid-2024 · Published: 7 Nov 2025 · Coverage: England and Wales (LSOA 2021) · Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0
Office for National Statistics: UK Business Counts (Inter-Departmental Business Register), enterprises and local units, via NomisPeriod: snapshot taken in March 2026 (counts held for 2016 to 2026) · Published: Oct 2026 · Coverage: Great Britain: local authorities, parliamentary constituencies (2024), MSOAs (England and Wales), regions, countries; Northern Ireland not held · Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0
Office for National Statistics: Business Register and Employment Survey (BRES), open access, via NomisPeriod: employment in September 2024 (2015 to 2024 held) · Published: Oct 2025 · Coverage: Great Britain: local authorities, parliamentary constituencies (2024), MSOAs (England and Wales), countries · Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0
Office for National Statistics: Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE), via Nomis: tables 7 (place of work) and 8 (place of residence)Period: survey year 2025 (April 2025 reference week); 2015 to 2025 held · Published: Oct 2025 · Coverage: Great Britain local authorities (April 2023 boundaries), regions and countries; Northern Ireland not held · Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0
Welsh Government: Schools census: pupils in maintained schools aged 5 to 15 eligible for free school meals, by local authorityPeriod: academic years 2024/25 and 2025/26 (January pupil census) · Published: 5 Aug 2026 · Coverage: Wales: 22 local authorities and Wales · Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0
Office for National Statistics: Price Index of Private Rents, UK: monthly price statisticsPeriod: monthly, January 2015 to the latest month in the release; 36 months held · Published: 16 Sep 2026 · Coverage: UK local authorities (England, Wales, Scotland), English regions and countries; Northern Ireland not held · Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0
Office for National Statistics: Census 2021 bulk tables via Nomis: TS054 tenure, TS045 cars, TS044 accommodation type, TS017 household size, TS052 occupancy rating (bedrooms), TS037 general health, TS067 highest qualificationPeriod: 21 March 2021 · Published: 2023 · Coverage: Local authorities of Wales (22) and Wales; qualifications also for England and its local authorities · Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0
Companies House: Companies House streaming API (live), combined with the basic company data snapshot of 2 Oct 2026Period: incorporations to 1 Nov 2026 (stream timepoint 121116481, newest event published 2 Nov 2026T04:06:53) · Published: 2 Nov 2026 · Coverage: UK companies (registered office postcode)
Companies House: Dissolved companies: advanced search API (one query per dissolution day since 2010), topped up from the live streaming feed; incorporations from the register snapshot of 2 Oct 2026Period: dissolutions 2 Nov 2024 to 1 Nov 2026; annual series 2010 to 2025 · Published: 2 Nov 2026 · Coverage: UK companies (registered office postcode)

Registered offices are not operating locations. Ranks and deciles are never averaged. Census 2021 figures are labelled 2021.