Caellepa
Suburb · 25 residents
54Fair
Fair · better than 3 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
- Food & drink scores 92, well above the typical 60
- 1 GP practice within a short walk
- Affordability scores 70, well above the typical 60
Check before you view
- Flood risk: 14% 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
- Schools scores 26, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Caellepa
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Caellepa a good place to live?
Caellepa scores 54/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for food & drink (92) and health (72).
It scores lowest on schools (26).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Caellepa in Wales, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Caellepa
Terraced rows dominate here, packed tightly enough that the population density runs close to the Welsh average despite Caellepa being a small pocket of just over three hundred people — this is a compact, young, rented-and-owned mix of a place, not a suburb of detached driveways. The median age of 27.9 tells you plainly who's around: students and young workers rather than families settled for the long haul, which tracks with Bangor's pull as a university city on the doorstep.
The practical picture is a study in contrasts worth sitting with. Housing here is genuinely inexpensive — a median sale price of £154,000 sits well below both the Welsh average and the price in Gwynedd overall, a gap the data puts at roughly a fifth cheaper than the county typically asks. Terraced freeholds make up the overwhelming bulk of sales, so a For Sale board on one of these streets is almost certainly advertising a small period terrace you'll own outright rather than a leasehold flat. Bangor (Gwynedd) Rail Station serves the area, useful if you need the coastal or Chester line rather than a car. But the affordability comes with a companion fact you shouldn't skip past: Caellepa sits in the third decile for deprivation in Wales, and the crime rate here runs dramatically higher than the Gwynedd county average, driven mostly by violence and anti-social behaviour rather than burglary or car crime, which barely register. That single figure is the quiet spine of this place — everything else reads as solidly average-to-good, but safety is the sub-grade that breaks the pattern.