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9,346
Resident population · 2024
2.1%
Population change · 2022 to 2024
About the same as WalesCarmarthenshire 0.9%Wales 1.7%
How do we know this?
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.
£170,000
Median sale price · Year to Oct 2025
21% lower than WalesCarmarthenshire £193,000Wales £215,000
0.7%
Change in median sale price · Year to Oct 2025 vs a year earlier
1.6 percentage points lower than WalesCarmarthenshire 4.4%Wales 2.4%
How do we know this?
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.
31.3%
Adults with a degree-level qualification or above · 2021
Carmarthenshire figure
About the same as WalesWales 31.5%
20%
Adults with no qualifications · 2021
Carmarthenshire figure
About the same as WalesWales 19.9%
How do we know this?
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.
844
Companies registered in the area · 2 Oct 2026
90.3 per 1,000
Registered companies per 1,000 residents · 2 Oct 2026
64% higher than WalesCarmarthenshire 43.4 per 1,000Wales 55.2 per 1,000
How do we know this?
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.
How much of the work residents do generally available AI tools could speed up Carmarthenshire figure
60.1%17.8%20.7%
- A small part 60.1%
- Some 17.8%
- Much 20.7%
- Not yet assessed 1.4%
Early estimate from CareerMash (October 2026). It may change and has not been independently checked.
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.
HomesHigh confidence
The typical home sale price is lower than in Wales
Typical (median) home sale price is £170,000 in Carmarthen Town North and South (Year to Oct 2025), compared with £215,000 in Wales (21% lower, based on 112 sales).
£170,000 here£215,000 Wales
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 Wales
- 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.
- Confidence
- High confidence: the figure rests on large numbers and good-quality data.
- Limitations
- Covers the 12-month window Year to Oct 2025 only.
CommunityMedium confidence
All recorded crime and anti-social behaviour per 1,000 residents: higher than Wales
All recorded crime and anti-social behaviour per 1,000 residents is 202 per 1,000 in Carmarthen Town North and South (Year to Apr 2026), compared with 79.7 per 1,000 in Wales (about 2.5 times the Wales rate).
202 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
- Ward, 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.
- Confidence
- Medium confidence: the figure is an estimate or rests on a moderate number of records, so read small differences with care.
- 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. 3.6% of Dyfed-Powys 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.
HomesMedium confidence
Private rents are lower than in Wales (Carmarthenshire figure)
Average monthly private rent is £687 in Carmarthenshire council area (Aug 2026), compared with £846 in Wales (19% lower).
Carmarthenshire figure
£687 Carmarthenshire figure£846 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.
- Confidence
- Medium confidence: the figure is an estimate or rests on a moderate number of records, so read small differences with care.
- Limitations
- Mean, not median.
- This figure is for the Carmarthenshire council area, not for Carmarthen Town North and South itself.
The futureHigh confidence
Residents retired
27.8% of residents aged 16+ in Carmarthenshire (the council area containing Carmarthen Town North and South) were retired on Census day, higher than the 21.6% for England and Wales (Census 2021, during the COVID-19 pandemic).
27.8% here21.6% England and Wales
How do we know this?
- Source
- not recorded
- Period
- Census 2021 (21 March 2021)
- Geography
- Ward, compared with England and Wales
- Method
- Compared with the same measure for the comparison geography.
- Confidence
- High confidence: the figure rests on large numbers and good-quality data.
- Limitations
- Census day was 21 March 2021, during the pandemic and furlough.
- Shown separately from other measures; no composite.
EconomyMedium confidence
Increase between 2022 and 2025: Median weekly pay of full-time employees who live in the area (Carmarthenshire figure)
Median weekly pay of full-time employees who live in the area in Carmarthenshire council area went from £618 (2022) to £733 (2025): up 19% (not adjusted for inflation), compared with up 19.0% in Wales.
Carmarthenshire figure
£733 Carmarthenshire figure£618 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.
- Confidence
- Medium confidence: the figure is an estimate or rests on a moderate number of records, so read small differences with care.
- Limitations
- Coefficient of variation 4.3%. Coefficient of variation 5.9%.
- This figure is for the Carmarthenshire council area, not for Carmarthen Town North and South itself.
- Prices are nominal and not adjusted for inflation or for changes in the mix of homes sold.
EconomyMedium confidence
Larger share in "Agriculture, forestry and fishing": Business sites by industry (SIC section) (Carmarthenshire figure)
In the breakdown "Business sites by industry (SIC section)" (2026), "Agriculture, forestry and fishing" makes up 22.1% in Carmarthenshire council area, compared with 10.7% in Wales.
Carmarthenshire figure
22.1% Carmarthenshire figure10.7% Wales
How do we know this?
- Source
- not recorded
- 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.
- Confidence
- Medium confidence: the figure is an estimate or rests on a moderate number of records, so read small differences with care.
- Limitations
- This figure is for the Carmarthenshire council area, not for Carmarthen Town North and South itself.
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Sources used on this page
10- The Gazette (The National Archives / TSO): Corporate insolvency notices (category 24)Period: published 12 Jul 2025 to 9 Oct 2026 · Published: 9 Oct 2026 · Coverage: Companies with a UK registered office (the Gazette carries notices for England and Wales procedures and some Scottish and Northern Ireland ones, so Scottish places show counts) · Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0 (The Gazette terms)
- Charity Commission for England and Wales: Register event history (registration, removal)Period: to 3 Oct 2026 · Published: 4 Oct 2026 · Coverage: England and Wales · Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0 (Charity Commission terms apply: not the register itself)
- 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
- Companies House: Free Company Data Product (basic company data), snapshotPeriod: snapshot 2 Oct 2026 · Published: 2 Oct 2026 · Coverage: UK companies on the register (registered office postcode) · Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0 (Free Company Data Product)
- 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: 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
- 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
Registered offices are not operating locations. Ranks and deciles are never averaged. Census 2021 figures are labelled 2021.