Three Cocks
Village · 131 residents
71Very good
Very good · better than 9 in 10 villages
Check Local Score out of 100 · 60 is typical for the country
Each arc is a topic, coloured by its score
What’s good
- Schools scores 85, well above the typical 60
- Food & drink scores 83, well above the typical 60
- Affordability scores 70, 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
- Infrastructure scores 39, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Three Cocks a good place to live?
Three Cocks scores 71/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as very good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for schools (85) and food & drink (83).
It scores lowest on infrastructure (39).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Three Cocks in Wales, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Three Cocks
Aberllynfi sits on the old droving road along the Wye valley, the kind of place where the high street does double duty as the A-road and the hills are never out of view. It's a small village rhythm here rather than a commuter-belt one — the sort of spot people find because they were looking for the Brecon Beacons on the doorstep, not because they were chasing a train timetable.
There's not much on the record for this particular village in the way of hard numbers — no local house price, crime, or school data has come through for Aberllynfi itself, which is common for places this size where the statistics get folded into a wider Powys or Brecon area rather than broken out separately. What we can say with any confidence is the wider frame: Powys as a council area sits close to the Welsh average on house prices, and this is a part of the country where deprivation figures generally sit on the better side nationally, but neither of those numbers can be pinned to Aberllynfi specifically without guessing.
That's worth being upfront about rather than papering over with a borrowed figure. If you're weighing up a move here, the honest answer is that you'll want to look at the actual property listings and school in question directly, because the village-level picture isn't detailed enough to paint the scene the way it deserves. What character does come through — the valley setting, the droving-road high street, the sense of hills rather than motorways — is the real draw for most people who end up here, and it's not something a spreadsheet was ever going to capture anyway.