Bwllfa
Suburb · 604 residents
63Good
Good · better than 6 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
- Schools scores 77, well above the typical 60
- Affordability scores 72, well above the typical 60
- Less recorded crime than is typical: 35 per 1,000 people a year against 99
Check before you view
- Flood risk: 28% of the area is in the highest flood zone, so check the street
- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Road noise reaches 96% of the area
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Bwllfa
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Bwllfa a good place to live?
Bwllfa scores 63/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for schools (77) and affordability (72).
It scores lowest on health (21) and food & drink (32).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Bwllfa in Wales, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Bwllfa
Bwllfa reads as detached houses on quiet plots, the kind of place where driveways matter more than doorsteps and you rarely see anyone on foot who isn't walking a dog. It's a small pocket — a few hundred people — sitting on the edge of Swansea's suburban sprawl, and the streetscape says settled money rather than new money: mature gardens, cars parked rather than double-yellow-lined, the sort of quiet that comes from a population with a median age nudging 46.
That settledness shows up in the numbers without needing to lean on them. Bwllfa sits in the ninth decile for both income and deprivation in Wales, which puts it among the more comfortable corners of the country, and the property market backs that up: eighteen recent sales were overwhelmingly detached houses bought outright as freeholds, with a median price around £298,000 — well above the Welsh average and roughly 55% higher than the Swansea city figure it sits within. A For Sale board here is advertising space and permanence, not a starter flat. Schooling is thinner on the ground — there's no school actually inside Bwllfa itself, though Ynystawe Primary, Glyncollen Primary and Morriston Comprehensive all serve the wider area, all community schools of a reasonable size. Estyn doesn't publish comparable grades in this data, so it's worth visiting rather than judging from a distance. Six bus stops but no rail link listed means this is a driving suburb — you commute out by car, not by train.