Llandinam
Village · 227 residents
65Good
Good · better than 7 in 10 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
- Food & drink scores 75, well above the typical 60
- Affordability scores 73, well above the typical 60
- Less recorded crime than is typical: 18 per 1,000 people a year against 99
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The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Llandinam a good place to live?
Llandinam scores 65/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for food & drink (75) and affordability (73).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Llandinam in Wales, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Llandinam
Llandinam sits on the A470 in mid Wales, the kind of place where a handful of stone-and-render houses face the road and the Severn runs somewhere close by — this is farming country, not commuter country, and it looks it. The houses are mostly detached, mostly bought outright as freeholds, and the whole village is small enough that its population barely stretches to a full classroom.
There's one school here, Llandinam C.P. School, a community primary with around thirty pupils — the kind of school where teachers know every child's name, though Estyn doesn't publish the granular comparative data you'd get elsewhere, so you're weighing reputation and size rather than a headline grade. There's no rail station in the picture, and the transport grade reflects a place built around cars and a handful of bus stops rather than a station platform. House prices here run higher than the Powys average, and comfortably above the typical Welsh figure — this is a village where a detached place can fetch well into the £300,000s, with the established homes nudging past £300,000 median. For the area's own wealth ranking, that tracks: Llandinam sits in the better-off half of Wales on income, which explains why the affordability grade reads well despite prices that aren't cheap in absolute terms — locals simply have the means to meet them.
Green space is modest and specific rather than sprawling — a few pockets amounting to a couple of hectares, not parkland you'd spend a whole afternoon in, more the kind of ground you walk the dog round after work. There's no named restaurant or pub in the picture here, so it's fair to say eating out means a drive rather than a stroll. The crime figures need a word of context: the raw count is close to zero for the past year, but the historic breakdown on file shows violence and sexual offences as the largest single category — in a village this size, a handful of incidents can swing the percentages sharply, and the "9404%" jump against the Powys crime rate is a function of comparing tiny absolute numbers, not a sign of a dangerous street. Treat the safety grade, sitting solidly mid-table, as the more reliable read than any single stat.