Caerwent
Town · 2,192 residents
50Fair
Fair · better than 1 in 10 towns
Check Local Score out of 100 · 60 is typical for the country
Each arc is a topic, coloured by its score
What’s good
- Less recorded crime than is typical: 61 per 1,000 people a year against 99
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- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Health scores 31, below the typical 60
- Environment scores 35, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Caerwent
Map outline: Civil parish boundary
Is Caerwent a good place to live?
Caerwent scores 50/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (73).
It scores lowest on health (31) and environment (35).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Caerwent in Wales, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Caerwent
Caerwent is the sort of place you drive through slowly without quite meaning to — a scatter of stone and render, a Roman wall you half-notice, and not much reason to stop unless you already live there. It doesn't present itself as a destination, and that's rather the point: this is a village that keeps its head down, tucked into the Monmouthshire countryside between the bigger pulls of Chepstow and Newport.
Beyond that, there isn't much I can respectably tell you. No population count, no crime figures, no house price for the village itself has come through, and Caerwent is small enough that it often gets folded into wider Monmouthshire figures rather than measured on its own terms. What I can say is that it sits within Monmouthshire, a council area where the median house price runs to £318,000 — well above the £208,000 Welsh average — so this corner of the country is not a cheap one, and Caerwent, with its period stone cottages and village-edge new-builds, is unlikely to buck that pattern. Beyond that steer, though, I'd be guessing, and guessing isn't much use to you when you're trying to work out whether this is home.
If you're weighing up Caerwent specifically, the honest move is to look at the streets themselves — the school catchment, the bus timetable, the asking prices on the boards — rather than lean on averages borrowed from a much larger area around it.