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A village of 1,040 in Dyfed, Wales.
Aberaeron has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Its strongest subject is walkability (A): 28% of commuters walk, cycle or take public transport. Its weakest is safety (D−): 79.3 violent and sexual offences and 25.2 home and vehicle crimes per 1,000 residents a year, averaged Sep 2023 to Aug 2026. Among UK towns of 1,000 to 2,500 people, it has less crime per resident than 1%. The median home sold for £255,000 in the last three years, 5.9 times what households in the Ceredigion council area earn in a year.
Dyfed Powys Police published 32 of the 36 months; rates are per year over the months published. This town's Health Grade uses ONS's small-area life expectancy and healthy life expectancy for 2019 to 2023, and two Census 2021 measures, bad health and disability, adjusted for age. English towns' grades also use OHID's small-area early deaths, hospital admissions and child obesity, which OHID publishes for England only.
The 3 things Aberaeron does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compared with the 2,160 UK towns with an overall grade (schools within Wales), ordered by how far Aberaeron is from typical. American towns are graded separately.
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Cadw lists them inside Aberaeron’s built-up area.
49% of its homes were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Aberaeron.
In the comparison, Aberaeron comes above both Dyfed’s towns (24%) and Wales’s towns (21%). Children under 15 make up 12% of residents. Half the people of Aberaeron are older than 56.6.
53% women, 47% men
About 89 men for every 100 women. Across Wales, 51% of residents are women. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
| Aberaeron | Dyfed | Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 12% | 16% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 8.2% | 12% | 12% |
| 25–44 | 16% | 22% | 25% |
| 45–64 | 28% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 36% | 24% | 21% |
| No qualifications | 19% | 19% | 20% |
| Apprenticeship | 5.1% | 6.1% | 5.6% |
| A levels or similar | 14% | 18% | 17% |
| Degree level | 35% | 30% | 31% |
ONS Census 2021 · Dyfed and Wales: all residents of their built-up areas · OGL
One of its 2 schools is below, with why it’s listed. Wales publishes no school-level results, so its schools have no letters.
| School | Level | Pupils | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ysgol Gynradd AberaeronLargest primary schoolPrimary | Primary | 229 | – |
The heritage lists give each building’s grade but not its age, so we don’t say which is oldest.
For Aberaeron, that is above both Dyfed’s towns (32) and Wales’s towns (18). Aberaeron has 246 listed buildings on Cadw’s list: 0 Grade I, 19 Grade II*. Homes from before 1919 make up 49% of the total.
Cadw list, October 2026 · Valuation Office Agency, homes by build period · OGL
Violence came to 79.3 per 1,000 residents a year, above both Dyfed’s towns (38.9) and Wales’s towns (33.8). Police recorded 160 crimes inside Aberaeron’s built-up area in the 12 months to August 2026, plus 24 reports of anti-social behaviour. Violence and sexual offences were 58% of the crimes; the police category includes harassment and stalking.
Not gradedAnti-social behaviour, shoplifting and other theft are shown but left out of the Safety Grade, which counts violence and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident.
data.police.uk street-level crime · points inside the ONS built-up-area boundary · OGL
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in lockdown, so 25% of workers were mainly at home; shares here are of those who travelled.
Aberaeron sits below both Dyfed’s towns (83%) and Wales’s towns (81%) on this measure. 2.8% of 16 to 64s claimed unemployment benefits in 2026.
ONS Census 2021, method of travel and distance to work · ONS small-area income · DWP claimant count · OGL
That puts Aberaeron above both Dyfed’s towns (18%) and Wales’s towns (17%).
| By type | Median | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Detached | £314,000 | 10 |
| Semi-detached | £287,500 | 12 |
| Terraced | £240,000 | 25 |
HM Land Registry Price Paid · ONS private rents · MHCLG / Welsh Government council tax · ONS Census 2021 tenure · OGL
On this, Aberaeron is above both Dyfed’s towns (23%) and Wales’s towns (22%). The nearest A&E to Aberaeron is Bronglais General Hospital, 14.4 miles away. These answers aren’t adjusted for age, so young towns look healthier; the Health Grade uses age-adjusted measures, including life expectancy.
| Census 2021 | Aberaeron | Dyfed | Wales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good or very good health | 78% | 77% | 78% |
| Bad or very bad health | 6.5% | 7.4% | 7.1% |
| Disabled (Equality Act) | 24% | 23% | 22% |
ONS Census 2021, general health and disability · ONS, life expectancy 2019–23 · OGL
5 notable people were born in Aberaeron.
Ron Davies: Carl Williams (Speagles), CC BY-SA 3.0
The nearest built-up areas, from ONS’s 2022 boundaries. See them on the map →
Surface water isn’t included. Check a specific address on Natural Resources Wales’s flood risk service.
246 on Cadw’s list, 19 of them Grade II*. That is 97.1 times the typical UK town for its size.
Village in Dyfed, Wales
Aberaeron is a built-up area of 1,040 people, in the Ceredigion council area. TownRatings uses ONS’s 2022 built-up areas as towns: the physical town, as people mean the word, rather than a council district, so its figures cover the town itself.
Built from ONS geography and Census 2021
Sources: ONS Census 2021, output areas summed to the ONS 2022 built-up area · HM Land Registry Price Paid (standard sales, September 2023 to August 2026) · ONS Price Index of Private Rents (August 2026, by council) · MHCLG and Welsh Government council tax, Band D 2026–27 (with parish precepts in England) · data.police.uk street-level crime, 36 months to August 2026, points inside the built-up-area boundary · ONS small-area life expectancy and healthy life expectancy, 2019 to 2023 (England and Wales), OHID Fingertips small-area indicators (England) and Census 2021 health, adjusted for age · ONS small-area income estimates (financial year ending 2023) · DWP claimant count via Nomis (January to August 2026) · Cadw listed buildings, scheduled monuments and registered historic parks and gardens via DataMapWales, October 2026, inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary · Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties by build period (31 March 2025) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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