Mynydd-Bach-y-Glo in Wales has a Check Local Score of 50/100 (fair), drawn from official data on safety, schools, transport, housing, amenities and the local environment, each measured against the national average — a score of 60 is typical for the country.
Semi-detached pebbledash and stone-fronted terraces line the roads here, the kind of streets where cars outnumber people on a weekday and the pace rarely rises above a dog walk. Mynydd-Bach-y-Glo sits on the edge of Swansea's built-up sprawl rather than in the thick of it, and it reads that way: quiet, residential, unshowy, with a median age pushing 42 that tells you this is a settled place rather than a starter-flat postcode.
The housing picture is straightforward. Freehold semis dominate the sales here, thirty of the last thirty-one sales were freehold, and a median price around £200,000 sits close to the Welsh average and about 4% above the wider Swansea figure. That's a for-sale board that says "ordinary family house," not "opportunity" or "renovation project" — terraces trade a touch under the national terraced median, semis roughly in line with it. There are two community primaries in the immediate picture, Ysgol Gymraeg y Login Fach and Waunarlwydd Primary, both with a couple of hundred pupils, though Estyn ratings aren't part of the picture here so you'd want to visit rather than rely on a grade. Getting around leans on a handful of bus stops rather than rail, so this suits someone who drives or takes the bus into Swansea rather than someone hunting a station.
The grades here paint a place that's solidly average-to-good across most of daily life — connectivity, environment, and housing all sit above the Welsh norm, and full-fibre coverage above 80% is a genuine convenience for home working. Health services score noticeably softer than everything else, a C+ against a run of Bs and B+s, which is worth noting if that matters to you day-to-day. Safety is the number that needs unpacking rather than skating past: the crime rate here runs nearly four times the Swansea average, driven heavily by violence and sexual offences, which alone account for over a third of recorded incidents, with shoplifting and public order making up much of the rest. That's a stark gap against the parent city and sits oddly against the otherwise comfortable B-grade profile — the quiet streetscape and the crime figures are telling two different stories, and it's worth sitting with that tension rather than one or the other.
On deprivation, this places Mynydd-Bach-y-Glo in the middle of the Welsh spread — decile 4, so on the less comfortable side of average rather than sharply deprived, with income ranking a little lower still. It's not a place of visible hardship, more one where the numbers sit a notch below the national picture while the street scene itself looks unremarkable and settled. Green space and weekend life aren't well documented here, so it's hard to say much about how people fill a Saturday beyond the obvious: this reads as a place for people who want a quiet, established residential corner on Swansea's fringe, who are prepared to drive rather than rail-commute, and who'll want to look past the headline crime figure to understand what's actually driving it before deciding whether it changes the calculation.
Data last updated: 15 August 2026
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