Pen-rhiw-Forgon
Suburb · 193 residents
55Good
Good · better than 3 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 75, well above the typical 60
- Property market scores 74, well above the typical 60
Check before you view
- Flood risk: 38% of the area is in the highest flood zone, so check the street
- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Road noise reaches 89% of the area
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Pen-rhiw-Forgon
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Pen-rhiw-Forgon a good place to live?
Pen-rhiw-Forgon scores 55/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for environment (75) and property market (74).
It scores lowest on health (22) and food & drink (38).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Pen-rhiw-Forgon in Wales, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Pen-rhiw-Forgon
Pen-rhiw-Forgon reads as a village that's been absorbed into Swansea's orbit rather than swallowed by it: low-rise terraces and detached houses sitting well apart from each other, a population under a thousand, and none of the density you'd expect this close to a city. It's the kind of place where you notice the space between houses before you notice anything else.
The housing here tells its own story before you even see a for-sale board: mostly terraced and freehold, with a fair scatter of detached and semi-detached too, which points to a settled owner-occupier street rather than a churn of rentals — turnover sits low, around one and a half percent a year, so people move in and stay. A typical sale lands around £213,750, which is above the Welsh average and about eleven percent pricier than Swansea as a whole, though still shy of the very top brackets — this is comfortable, not exclusive. Schools-wise, you've got Ynystawe Primary and Ysgol Gymraeg Lon Las close by, the latter a sizeable Welsh-medium school, which tells you something about the bilingual character of family life here even without Estyn ratings to quote. Median age is a touch under 38, younger than the Welsh average, which fits a place where families are putting down roots rather than retiring.
Green space and connectivity are where the place quietly performs — full fibre reaches over eighty percent of homes, useful if you're working from the house rather than commuting into the city daily. The grades across the board sit in the B to B+ range with impressive consistency: affordability, connectivity, environment, housing all comfortably above the Welsh average, safety graded B+ too. That last one is worth sitting with for a second, because the raw crime figures don't match the letter at first glance — violence and sexual offences make up the largest single share of incidents, and the crime rate here runs markedly higher than Swansea's own average. The grade is right in relative national terms, but it's the one place in this otherwise even spread of Bs where the texture underneath deserves a proper look rather than a glance at the letter.