Nant-y-ceisiad
Suburb · 113 residents
50Fair
Fair · better than 1 in 10 suburbs
Check Local Score out of 100 · 60 is typical for the country
Each arc is a topic, coloured by its score
What’s good
- Environment scores 87, 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 24, below the typical 60
- Health scores 38, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Nant-y-ceisiad
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Nant-y-ceisiad a good place to live?
Nant-y-ceisiad scores 50/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for environment (87).
It scores lowest on food & drink (24) and health (38).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Nant-y-ceisiad in Wales, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Nant-y-ceisiad
Nant-y-ceisiad reads as valley-village Wales rather than commuter-belt Wales: low-rise semis and terraces along quiet roads, the kind of place where the pace is set by families who've been here a generation rather than newcomers passing through. The median age sits a touch under the Welsh average, and the population density is a fraction of the national figure, which tells you plainly what you're getting — space, not density, and a place that feels more village than suburb despite the label.
The housing picture and the practicalities knit together neatly here. Sales are dominated by semi-detached freeholds, and every single transaction in the local sample was freehold — no leasehold complications, no new-build estates skewing the numbers. A semi here typically sells above the Welsh median for that property type, while terraces also run ahead of the national terrace price, which suggests demand for the modest existing stock rather than any building boom. On schooling, the options are Graig-y-Rhacca Primary and Machen Primary, both community primaries without independent inspection grades published in this data, alongside a couple of independent schools in the wider catchment — Wyclif Independent Christian School and Mynydd Haf School. There's no rail station named for the area, so this isn't a place to bank on a station-to-city commute; it functions more as a self-contained pocket of the Caerphilly borough.