Llanfynydd
Village · 1,878 residents
57Good
Good · better than 3 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
- Less recorded crime than is typical: 43 per 1,000 people a year against 99
- Environment scores 78, well above the typical 60
- 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
- Food & drink scores 20, below the typical 60
- Schools scores 28, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Map outline: Civil parish boundary
Is Llanfynydd a good place to live?
Llanfynydd scores 57/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (81) and environment (78).
It scores lowest on food & drink (20) and schools (28).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Llanfynydd in Wales, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Llanfynydd
Detached houses on generous plots, stone boundary walls, cars rather than pavements doing the work of getting about — Llanfynydd reads as the kind of village where people move to get space, not nightlife. At under a hundred people per square kilometre, against a Welsh average many times denser, this is a scattered rural community rather than a village with a single defining street.
The practical picture here is straightforward once you see the pieces together. Cefn-y-Bedd Rail Station gives you a line out without needing the car every day, which matters given the nearest secondary provision isn't in the village itself — Abermorddu CP School is the primary on the doorstep, a community school of modest size, and families here are generally sending older children further afield. With a median age of 48.8, well above the Welsh average of 43.1, this is not a place dominated by young families and school runs; it skews toward people who've settled, downsized commutes, or retired into the space. Housing backs that up: the sales mix is dominated by detached freehold homes, seven-figure land-to-house ratios rather than flats or new-builds, at a median approaching £325,000 — a market sitting comfortably above both the Welsh average and its Flintshire parent, roughly 60% higher on price. A "For Sale" board here is almost always on a detached house, not a starter home.
Day-to-day life leans on the outdoors rather than a high street. Fifteen green spaces cover nearly 37 hectares, well above the Welsh norm per head, so the pattern of life is walking fields and lanes rather than browsing shops — there's no meaningful restaurant or nightlife scene to speak of here, and the C-grade for nightlife is the honest reflection of that trade-off. Safety is the quiet standout: crime sits at an A grade, running roughly half the rate of the wider Flintshire area, though violence and sexual offences still account for close to half of the modest number of incidents recorded, worth knowing even if the overall count is low. Health services score more middling at C+, so this isn't a place with everything on tap — connectivity, by contrast, is strong, with full-fibre broadband reaching the large majority of premises, useful if working from one of those detached homes is part of the plan.