Cwmllynfell
Village · 1,147 residents
50Fair
Fair · among the lowest-scoring villages
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: 57 per 1,000 people a year against 99
- Affordability scores 70, well above the typical 60
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- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Infrastructure scores 39, below the typical 60
- Property market scores 39, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Cwmllynfell
Map outline: Civil parish boundary
Is Cwmllynfell a good place to live?
Cwmllynfell scores 50/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (72) and affordability (70).
It scores lowest on property market (39) and infrastructure (39).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Cwmllynfell in Wales, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Cwmllynfell
Terraced rows and pebble-dashed semis climb the valley side here, the kind of streetscape where net curtains and satellite dishes outnumber anything resembling a shopfront — this is a village built around a chapel and a rugby memory more than a high street, and it still reads that way. The people who stay tend to have been here a while: the median age sits close to 48, a good few years above the Welsh average, and that shows in the quiet of the place as much as in any figure.
There's one school, YGG Cwmllynfell, a small community primary of around 60 pupils, which tells its own story — families here are settled enough that the village doesn't need more than that, and anyone with older children is looking beyond the village for secondary provision. There's no rail station in the picture, and only a handful of bus stops, so this isn't a commuter's village; you're either working locally, driving out, or retired. Housing reflects that same settledness — freehold semis and detached houses dominate the small run of recent sales, nothing new-build, everything sold outright rather than leased, which is the pattern of a place where houses get passed through families rather than flipped. At a median of £170,000, it undercuts the Welsh average comfortably, though it still runs about 11% above the going rate in Neath Port Talbot, the county it sits within — so relative to its own patch, it isn't the bargain the headline number suggests.