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  • Caerphilly constituency
  • The council area it sits in (approximate outline)
  • Marker: a point inside the constituency

The outline is the constituency. Boundaries: Office for National Statistics, Open Government Licence. Use Full screen for the layers: neighbourhood deprivation (IoD2025, England only) and nearby schools. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors.

People

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96,969
Resident population · 2024
0.6%
Population change · 2022 to 2024
1.1 percentage points lower than Wales
Caerphilly 0.4%Wales 1.7%
How do we know this?
FigureSourcePeriodGeographyMethod and limits
Resident population
Estimated usual resident population (mid-year estimate).
Office for National Statistics
Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0
2024Caerphilly (Constituency)estimated, medium quality
Population change 2022 to 2024 (%)
Percentage change between mid-2022 (revised) and mid-2024.
Office for National Statistics
Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0
2022-2024Caerphilly (Constituency)estimated, medium 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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£210,750
Median sale price · Year to Oct 2025
About the same as Wales
Caerphilly £190,250Wales £215,000
3.8%
Change in median sale price · Year to Oct 2025 vs a year earlier
1.4 percentage points higher than Wales
Caerphilly 3.1%Wales 2.4%
How do we know this?
FigureSourcePeriodGeographyMethod and limits
Median sale price
Median price of homes sold in the 12-month period (needs 10+ sales).
HM Land Registry
Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0 (HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, Crown copyright)
Year to Oct 2025Caerphilly (Constituency)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
Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0 (HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, Crown copyright)
Year to Oct 2025 vs Year to Oct 2024Caerphilly (Constituency)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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25.3%
Adults with a degree-level qualification or above · 2021
Caerphilly figure
6.2 percentage points lower than Wales
Wales 31.5%
24.1%
Adults with no qualifications · 2021
Caerphilly figure
4.2 percentage points higher than Wales
Wales 19.9%
How do we know this?
FigureSourcePeriodGeographyMethod 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
Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0
2021Caerphilly (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
Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0
2021Caerphilly (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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3,705
Companies registered in the area · 2 Oct 2026
38.2 per 1,000
Registered companies per 1,000 residents · 2 Oct 2026
31% lower than Wales
Caerphilly 33.4 per 1,000Wales 55.2 per 1,000
How do we know this?
FigureSourcePeriodGeographyMethod and limits
Companies registered in the area (registered offices)
Active companies whose registered office postcode is in the area. Registered office, not operating location.
Companies House
Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0 (Free Company Data Product)
2 Oct 2026Caerphilly (Constituency)aggregated, medium quality
By registered office address. Counts companies by their registered office address, not where they trade. Accountants and formation agents can register thousands of companies at one address, which inflates some areas.
Registered companies per 1,000 residents
Active companies with a registered office in the area per 1,000 residents (mid-2024). Registered offices only.
Companies House
Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0 (Free Company Data Product)
2 Oct 2026Caerphilly (Constituency)aggregated, low quality
By registered office address. Counts companies by their registered office address, not where they trade. Accountants and formation agents can register thousands of companies at one address, which inflates some areas.
Method: Registered companies by area

Companies are placed by the postcode of their REGISTERED OFFICE, which is not a trading or operating location: accountants, formation agents and virtual offices register thousands of companies at one address, and many small companies use a director's home. Counts are of companies with status Active (including those with a proposal to strike off), by the section of their first listed SIC 2007 code. Incorporation counts cover companies incorporated in the window that are still on the register at 2 Oct 2026, so dissolved companies are missing and older windows are understated relative to newer ones. Companies per 1,000 residents divides by the mid-2024 resident population (England and Wales only) and is not a measure of business density where registration hubs exist. SIC section Z groups dormant, non-trading and unclassified companies.

Community

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28.6 per 1,000
Recorded crime per 1,000 residents · Year to Apr 2026
58% lower than Wales
Caerphilly 30.3 per 1,000Wales 67.6 per 1,000
139
Charities registered here · Oct 2026
Fewer than Wales here 1.4 per 1,000
Caerphilly 1.3 per 1,000Wales 2.5 per 1,000
How do we know this?
FigureSourcePeriodGeographyMethod 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
Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0
Year to Apr 2026Caerphilly (Constituency)estimated, medium quality
12 months to April 2026. 2.3% of Gwent 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
Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0 (Charity Commission, OSCR and CCNI terms apply: not the register itself, no direct marketing)
Oct 2026Caerphilly (Constituency)aggregated, low 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): Caerphilly 1.3 per 1,000, Wales 2.5 per 1,000, here 1.4 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 Caerphilly figure

  • A small part 57.2%
  • Some 16.8%
  • Much 24.8%
  • 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

What stands out about this place?

Findings where this place differs most from its surroundings, with the evidence behind each one. A difference is not a verdict: it is a prompt to look closer.

Economymedium confidence

Higher than Wales: Change in dissolutions on the prior 12 months

Change in dissolutions on the prior 12 months is 8.9% in Caerphilly (Year to 4 Nov 2026 vs Year to 4 Nov 2025), compared with -31.7% in Wales (40.6 percentage points higher).

8.9% here-31.7% Wales
How do we know this?
Source
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 2026 (to confirm (Companies House API terms; the register data is published under the Open Government Licence v3.0))
Period
Year to 4 Nov 2026 vs Year to 4 Nov 2025
Geography
Constituency, compared with Wales
Method
Company dissolutions and net formation. Dissolutions are companies Companies House records as dissolved, counted on the dissolution date and located by the postcode of the registered office held at dissolution. That address is often an accountant, formation agent or liquidator, not where the company traded, so it says where a company was registered, not where a business closed. Every dissolution day since 1 January 2010 was fetched one day at a time and checked: the number of companies stored equals the number the register reports for that day. The latest window is the 365 days ending the latest complete day; the prior window is the 365 days before it; annual figures are complete calendar years. The route to dissolution (strike-off, end of liquidation, merger) is not recorded, so dissolutions are not split. Net formation = companies incorporated in the period (all that were ever registered in it, whether or not they have since been dissolved) minus companies dissolved in the period. The two groups are different companies and are located by different addresses, current for companies still on the register and last held for dissolved ones. Net formation compares registered offices, not jobs, trading or business closures.
Limitations
  • Registered offices are not operating locations; many companies are registered at an agent or accountant address.
  • Registered-office events are not new local employers, closures or job changes.
See Economy
Communitymedium confidence

Lower than Wales: All recorded crime and anti-social behaviour per 1,000 residents

All recorded crime and anti-social behaviour per 1,000 residents is 35.0 per 1,000 in Caerphilly (Year to Apr 2026), compared with 79.7 per 1,000 in Wales (about 44% of the Wales rate; n = 96,968).

35 per 1,000 here79.7 per 1,000 Wales
How do we know this?
Source
Police forces of England and Wales via data.police.uk: Street-level crime (12 monthly files) (Open Government Licence v3.0)
Period
Year to Apr 2026
Geography
Constituency, compared with Wales
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.
Limitations
  • Rates use the resident population, so places with many visitors, workers or a busy centre can show higher rates; crimes are recorded where they occur.
  • This figure is an estimate; see the methodology.
  • 12 months to April 2026. 2.3% of Gwent Police records have no location and are excluded.
  • Twelve months of crime data only, so no year-on-year comparison is possible; crimes are recorded where they occur, not by residence of those involved.
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Homesmedium confidence

Higher than Wales: Change in private rents over a year (Caerphilly figure)

Change in private rents over a year is 8.1% in Caerphilly council area (Aug 2026), compared with 4.3% in Wales (3.8 percentage points higher).

Caerphilly figure

8.1% Caerphilly figure4.3% 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.
  • This figure is for the Caerphilly council area, not for Caerphilly itself.
See Living here
Economymedium confidence

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

Median weekly pay of full-time employees who live in the area in Caerphilly council area went from £590 (2022) to £710 (2025): up 20% (not adjusted for inflation), compared with up 19.0% in Wales.

Caerphilly figure

£710 Caerphilly figure£590 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 4.1%. Coefficient of variation 4.8%.
  • This figure is for the Caerphilly council area, not for Caerphilly itself.
  • Prices are nominal and not adjusted for inflation or for changes in the mix of homes sold.
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The futurehigh confidence

Residents with a degree-level qualification or above

25.3% of residents aged 16+ in Caerphilly (the council area containing Caerphilly) 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.

25.3% here33.8% England and Wales
How do we know this?
Source
not recorded
Period
Census 2021 (21 March 2021)
Geography
Constituency, 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.
See The future
Homesmedium confidence

Wide range between wards in Caerphilly: Share of home sales that are new-build

Share of home sales that are new-build (Year to Oct 2025) varies within Caerphilly: from 0.0% in Aber Valley to 18.2% in Maesycwmmer, across 16 wards. The upper tenth of wards is 16.7 percentage points above the lower tenth.

Maesycwmmer figure

18.2% Maesycwmmer0% Aber Valley
How do we know this?
Source
HM Land Registry: Price Paid Data (standard price paid, category A) (Open Government Licence v3.0 (HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, Crown copyright))
Period
Year to Oct 2025
Geography
Ward, compared with lowest-value ward (Aber Valley)
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.
Limitations
  • Ward and neighbourhood boundaries differ in size; the range shows variation within the area, not a ranking of places.
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Registered offices are not operating locations. Ranks and deciles are never averaged. Census 2021 figures are labelled 2021.