Clytha Park
Suburb · 915 residents
42Fair
Fair · among the lowest-scoring 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
- 5 places to eat and drink
- 2 GP practices within a short walk
Check before you view
- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Safety scores 28, below the typical 60
- Schools scores 39, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Clytha Park
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Clytha Park a good place to live?
Clytha Park scores 42/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for food & drink (88) and health (72).
It scores lowest on safety (28) and schools (39).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Clytha Park in Wales, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Clytha Park
Terraced Victorian streets dominate here, the kind of tight grid you get close to a city centre where bay windows meet flat frontages meet the odd converted flat above a shop. It sits close enough to Newport's centre that the density shows — nearly double the Welsh average — and you'll notice it in the parking, the packed-in feel of the streets, the sense that everyone's neighbour is genuinely a few feet away rather than a polite hedge's distance.
The housing here tells its own story before you even see a for-sale board: mostly terraced, overwhelmingly freehold, with a scattering of flats and a handful of semis that buck the pattern by selling well above the going Welsh rate. A typical terrace trades close to the national terraced price, but the overall median sits well below both the Welsh and UK-wide averages — this is a place where your money still buys a whole house rather than a fraction of one, which is a big part of its appeal if you're stretching a budget. Clytha Primary is the local school, a community school with several hundred pupils; Wales doesn't run Ofsted so you won't find a grade attached, but it's the kind of steady neighbourhood primary that anchors a street rather than draws people from across the city. For getting about, Newport's mainline station covers the rail side, useful if your commute runs toward Cardiff or further along the south Wales corridor, and the area carries decent full-fibre coverage for anyone working from home.