Blaenavon Junction
Suburb · 113 residents
46Fair
Fair · better than 1 in 10 suburbs
Check Local Score out of 100 · 60 is typical for the country
Each arc is a topic, coloured by its score
What’s good
- 1 GP practice within a short walk
Check before you view
- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Infrastructure scores 33, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Blaenavon Junction
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Blaenavon Junction a good place to live?
Blaenavon Junction scores 46/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for health (71).
It scores lowest on infrastructure (33).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Blaenavon Junction in Wales, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Blaenavon Junction
Terraced rows dominate the streets here, stone-fronted and close-packed, the kind of housing that grew up around the ironworks and railway junction the place is named for — this is old industrial Wales, not commuter-belt Wales, and it looks it.
The practical picture is mixed in a way that rewards a closer look. On paper the crime rate here sits far above the Torfaen average, and violence and anti-social behaviour together account for most of the incidents logged in the past year — but the underlying count is small, sixteen recorded crimes in total, so a handful of events swing the percentage hard; treat the comparison as a flag to ask local questions rather than a verdict. Set against that, the safety and environment grades both come out well above the Welsh average, which tells you the numbers and the lived feel of the place may be pulling in different directions — worth reconciling before you commit. Housing is affordable by any measure: a median sale price of around £145,000 sits well under both the Welsh and Torfaen averages, terraced freeholds are the norm, and there's no new-build premium to speak of, so a For Sale board here means an older stone terrace, most likely owned outright rather than leasehold. Two primary schools serve the area — Blaenavon Heritage VC Primary and Ysgol Bryn Onnen — giving a choice of voluntary-controlled or community schooling without needing to travel.
Green space is limited to one plot of just under four and a half hectares, modest against the Welsh average for a place this size, so daily dog walks and informal park time will lean on that single space rather than a choice of them. There isn't much recorded here in the way of restaurants or rail links, which fits the character: this reads as a place built for living quietly rather than for eating out or commuting by train, with three local transport stops covering day-to-day movement. Full-fibre broadband reaches a solid majority of homes, so working from that stone terrace is realistic even if the social offering around it is thin.