The Mumbles
Suburb · 1,151 residents
81Very 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
- 2 GP practices within a short walk
- 19 places to eat and drink
- Environment scores 70, well above the typical 60
Check before you view
- Flood risk: 18% 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
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around The Mumbles
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is The Mumbles a good place to live?
The Mumbles scores 81/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as very good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for health (93) and food & drink (93).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for The Mumbles in Wales, each measured against the national average.
Summary of The Mumbles
Along the front you get pastel-painted terraces, a scatter of independent cafés, and the kind of sea view that pulls in retirees and second-homers as readily as anyone commuting into Swansea. Walkers with dogs, paddleboards strapped to roof racks, a pace that isn't rushed — that's the visual shorthand for Mumbles, and it holds up when you look closer.
The age profile tells you most of what you need to know before the numbers do: a median age pushing 53, well above the Welsh average, this is a place people move to rather than grow up and stay in as young adults. Oystermouth Primary serves the community end of things, a straightforward local school rather than a name that draws people in from elsewhere. There's no rail station here, so if commuting into Swansea matters to you, it's a car or bus journey rather than a platform at the end of the road — worth sitting with before you commit, because everything else about the area assumes you're either not commuting daily or you don't mind the drive.
Housing here is dominated by freehold terraces — 19 of the last 37 sales — which is the classic Mumbles high-street proposition: a Victorian or Edwardian terrace, sea-adjacent, sold outright rather than leasehold. Prices sit a third above Swansea's median and comfortably above the Welsh figure too, so a For Sale board on one of these streets is pitching to buyers who've already decided the premium is worth the location. Detached houses fetch even more, close to £418,000 against a Welsh average nearer £325,000 — this is one of the better-off corners of Wales by most measures, sitting in the top income and deprivation decile nationally.