Six Bells
Suburb · 73 residents
42Fair
Fair · among the lowest-scoring 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
- Health scores 78, well above the typical 60
- Affordability scores 71, 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
- Schools scores 34, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Six Bells
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Six Bells a good place to live?
Six Bells scores 42/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for health (78) and affordability (71).
It scores lowest on schools (34).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Six Bells in Wales, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Six Bells
Terraces line most of the streets here — tight rows of Valleys housing climbing the hillside, the kind of streetscape that says ex-mining village rather than commuter dormitory. Six Bells sits in Blaenau Gwent, and it still feels like a place built around a single identity rather than one reinventing itself for outsiders. You won't find crowds here; with just over 400 people and a scattering of terraces, it reads as quiet rather than sleepy.
The numbers on safety are the first surprise: an A grade for safety against a national B+ overall picture is the sort of mismatch worth sitting with. Eleven crimes in the past year is a genuinely small count for any area, though it sits well above the Blaenau Gwent average rate — the borough itself runs low, so Six Bells looks worse by comparison even as it looks calm in absolute terms. Violence and sexual offences make up over half of what's recorded, which is common in small-sample areas where a handful of incidents swing the percentages hard. Take the rate as a signal to ask questions locally, not as an alarm.
Housing here is unambiguous: terraced freeholds dominate almost completely, sale prices cluster around the £105,000 mark, and that's roughly a fifth cheaper than the Blaenau Gwent median itself — which is already one of the more affordable corners of Wales. A For Sale board on one of these streets is selling a modest, owned-outright terrace, not a rental flat or a new-build estate; there's essentially no new construction and no flats to speak of. Council tax band D charges sit above the Welsh average, which matters more here given the lower price point — the tax bill is a bigger proportional bite than the house price alone suggests. Rents, where they exist, undercut the Welsh median comfortably.