Llanfair Pwllgwyngyll
Village · 2,557 residents
79Very good
Very good · better than 9 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
- Schools scores 89, well above the typical 60
- Less recorded crime than is typical: 56 per 1,000 people a year against 99
- Affordability scores 73, 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
- Road noise reaches 44% of the area
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Llanfair Pwllgwyngyll
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Llanfair Pwllgwyngyll a good place to live?
Llanfair Pwllgwyngyll scores 79/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as very good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for schools (89) and safety (78).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Llanfair Pwllgwyngyll in Wales, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Llanfair Pwllgwyngyll
Detached stone and rendered houses line the roads here, the kind with gravel drives and names rather than numbers, and the famous tongue-twister station sign does more to define this place in outsiders' minds than anything on the ground does. It's a village that reads as settled rather than transient — the median age sits over a decade above the Welsh average, and you notice it in the pace: dog walkers, retirees pottering, not much churn.
The practical picture is a good one if you value calm over convenience. Llanfairpwll has its own rail station, which for a village of this size is not nothing — you can get out without driving. There's a single primary, Ysgol Gynradd Llanfairpwll, Welsh-medium in character as much of Anglesey is, with around 330 pupils, so schooling here means one option rather than a shortlist. Housing leans heavily toward detached family homes bought outright — of recent sales here, the great majority were detached and every single one was freehold, which tells you this is a place people buy into for the long term rather than pass through. Prices reflect that: a median around £307,500 is well above both the Welsh average and the wider Anglesey figure, sitting comfortably in the upper reach of house prices nationally.
Day to day, the green space is modest rather than expansive — a handful of small plots rather than parkland you could get lost in — so this isn't a village built around sweeping walks from the doorstep, more one where you'd drive to the coast or the Menai Strait for that. What stands out is the quiet contradiction in the numbers: on paper this is one of the least deprived corners of Wales, comfortably in the upper decile for both income and general deprivation, with strong marks for health and affordability — yet the crime figures buck that pattern. Violence and sexual offences make up a third of the (small) annual total, and the overall crime rate here runs well above the Isle of Anglesey average. The raw counts are low in absolute terms, this being a village of well under a thousand people, so a handful of incidents move the percentages more than they would in a larger place — worth knowing rather than worth alarm.