Cogan Pill
Suburb · 427 residents
59Good
Good · better than 5 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
- Environment scores 71, 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
- Road noise reaches 50% of the area
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Cogan Pill
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Cogan Pill a good place to live?
Cogan Pill scores 59/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for environment (71).
It scores lowest on health (27).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Cogan Pill in Wales, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Cogan Pill
Cogan Pill is the kind of place you'd drive through without quite noticing you'd left Penarth — a scatter of semi-detached houses along quiet residential streets, close enough to the water that the air has a slight edge to it, with none of the retail clutter that marks out a district centre. There's no high street to speak of here; this is a residential pocket, and it reads as one, with the kind of settled, well-kept frontages that suggest people stay a while rather than pass through.
The numbers back up that impression of settledness: a median age approaching 45, well above the Welsh average, and a population under 500 packed into a small, dense footprint. This isn't a commuter dormitory in the obvious sense — the payload shows just two transport stops and nothing on rail — so if you need a station in your daily life, you'll want to check what Penarth or Cardiff can offer beyond Cogan Pill's own boundary. What is here is Llandough County Primary, a community school serving 184 pupils, which anchors the area for anyone with young children, even without a formal Estyn grade to quote.
Housing here leans firmly toward the semi-detached, freehold model — of the recent sales sampled, most were semis, nearly all freehold, and not one was a new build. That's a street of established family houses passed between owners rather than one being built out. It shows in the price too: a median sale around £320,000 sits comfortably above both the Welsh average and the wider Vale of Glamorgan figure, about 16% over the parent area's median, which itself is one of the pricier parts of Wales. Combined with an income decile of 9 and an IMD decile of 9, this places Cogan Pill among the least deprived, better-off corners of the country — the kind of postcode that shows up well on paper long before you've seen a single street.