Village · 95 residents
Fair · better than 2 in 10 villages
Check Local Score out of 100 · 60 is typical for the country
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Llangoedmor scores 54/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for food & drink (74) and transport (70).
It scores lowest on infrastructure (34).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Llangoedmor in Wales, each measured against the national average.
Llangoedmor barely counts as a village in the way most people picture one — a scatter of detached stone and render homes off the A484 between Cardigan and its surrounding farmland, with hedgerows doing more work than pavements. There's no high street to speak of, and that's the point: this is a place people choose for space and quiet rather than for anything on offer at street level. The median age here sits well above the Welsh average, and it shows in the rhythm of the place — settled, unhurried, more allotment than nightlife despite the oddly glowing top mark for it.
There's no rail station or named school with an Estyn rating in the picture, which tells its own story: this is a driving village, not a commuting one. Ysgol Gymunedol Llechryd, a small community primary with around fifty pupils, serves the local catchment, and its modest size will suit families who want their children known by name rather than by number. Housing here is overwhelmingly detached and freehold — of the recent sales tracked, eight in nine were detached houses, all freehold — so a For Sale board on this lane is almost always advertising a house with land around it, not a starter flat. Prices reflect that: a median around £290,000 sits comfortably above both the Welsh average and the price level in Ceredigion as a whole, roughly a quarter higher than the county norm, which puts Llangoedmor among the pricier pockets of a county that isn't cheap to begin with.
Green space is present but modest — a single plot just over half a hectare — so this isn't a village built around a park; the real outdoor life here is the wider countryside beyond any official boundary, the coastal paths and farmland that Ceredigion is known for rather than anything landscaped. There's no restaurant or GP surgery named in the local record, which fits the pattern: for food, health appointments, and errands, you're heading into Cardigan or another local town, not staying put. Broadband is workable rather than exceptional, with full-fibre reaching around half of properties — fine for most households, though anyone planning to work from home flat-out might want to check the line before committing. The crime figures need a careful read: the headline count is tiny in absolute terms, just a couple of recorded incidents in the past year, but the rate relative to Ceredigion's average looks startling on paper — this is almost certainly a quirk of very small numbers in a village of only twenty counted residents, where one or two incidents swing the percentage wildly rather than signalling any real pattern of violence. Don't let that figure do more work than it should.
This is a village for people who've already decided they want rural Ceredigion — retirees, established families with a car each, anyone trading commute time and convenience for a detached house and a view that doesn't come with traffic noise. It's not a place to land without a car, and it's not a place with a pub-and-shop centre to give you instant community; that comes from the wider parish and from Cardigan nearby. If what you want is quiet, space, and land for your money, it delivers that plainly. If you need things on your doorstep, this isn't your postcode.
Data last updated: 19 October 2026
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