Pen-y-Dre
Suburb · 61 residents
72Very good
Very good · better than 9 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
- Food & drink scores 90, well above the typical 60
- Schools scores 89, well above the typical 60
- 1 GP practice within a short walk
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- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Infrastructure scores 36, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Pen-y-Dre a good place to live?
Pen-y-Dre scores 72/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as very good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for food & drink (90) and schools (89).
It scores lowest on infrastructure (36).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Pen-y-Dre in Wales, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Pen-y-Dre
Pen-y-Dre sits in Powys the way a lot of mid-Wales places do: you sense it more than you can point at it on a spreadsheet. There's no high street data here to lean on, no roll call of shops or streets to describe, so what follows is necessarily a sketch rather than a portrait.
What can be said with any confidence comes from its position within Powys itself. The county's median house price sits close to the Welsh average, at around £245,000 against a national figure near £208,000, which puts this part of the world on the pricier side of Wales without being exceptional for it — the kind of number that reflects rural scarcity as much as demand. Powys as a whole also runs a crime rate of about 78 per 1,000, a figure that on its own tells you Powys is a low-key, low-density county rather than anything more specific about Pen-y-Dre's own streets.
Beyond that, there isn't enough here — no school, station, park, or venue named, no local crime, income, or demographic figures specific to Pen-y-Dre itself — to responsibly describe daily life, commuting, or who the place actually suits. What you have instead is the county's shape: a part of Wales priced roughly in line with the national picture, sitting in a low-crime rural setting. Anyone weighing a move should treat this as a starting point for further digging, not a finished picture.