Bryn Onnen Pontardawe, Neath Port Talbot

12 addresses across 2 postcodes (SA8), about 80 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 47700212.

  • Sales: 17 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £245,000 across 1 sale.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Neath Port Talbot cost £165,787 in August 2026 (+2% on a year); private rents averaged £692 a month.
  • Energy: 7 homes have an energy certificate (C: 3, D: 4).
  • Flood: No postcode centre on the street is in flood zone 2 or 3.
  • Recorded floods: No recorded flood covers the centre of any of its postcodes.
  • Coal mining: It is in a coalfield, in a low risk area.
  • Radon: An estimated 10 to 30% of homes in the 1 km squares around it are at or above the radon Action Level.
  • Traffic: The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles), the A474, carries 9,459 motor vehicles a day on average (2025).
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band A, which costs £1,694 a year in Neath Port Talbot in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Skewen, about 6.9 km (4.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Parc y Brenin Sior V, is about 120 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 5.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 4.8 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 68 to 78 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 3 of its 12 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Pontardawe Primary Care Centre, about 690 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • People: About 350 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 85% of households owned their home and 29% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Water: Supplied by Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water.
  • Policing: South Wales Police: 13.1% of the crimes it recorded in 2025/26 had led to a charge or summons (England and Wales 9.3%); it answered 91.2% of 999 calls within 10 seconds (target 90%).
  • MP: David Chadwick, Liberal Democrat, MP for Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe.
  • Senedd: Brycheiniog Tawe Nedd: six Members of the Senedd, Reform UK 3, Plaid Cymru 2, Liberal Democrat 1.
  • Council: Pontardawe ward, Neath Port Talbot: Plaid Cymru won both seats at its latest election, on 5 May 2022.
  • Crime: 54 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
  • Road safety: 2 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025, 2 of them fatal or serious.

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House sales on this street

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, sales registered up to 28 August 2026, loaded 28 October 2026. Sales reach the register two weeks to two months after completion, so the last two months are incomplete. Matched by postcode and street name.

See any home on its own: in the list of sales below, tap an underlined house number to open that home's page, with every energy certificate lodged for it and every sale matched to it.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20251£245,000£245,000£245,000
20241£310,000£310,000£310,000
20231£210,000£210,000£210,000
20221£219,950£219,950£219,950
20142£182,500£155,000£210,000
20091£132,000£132,000£132,000
20082£140,000£130,000£150,000
20021£67,500£67,500£67,500
20001£64,000£64,000£64,000
19992£66,750£65,000£68,500
19981£65,500£65,500£65,500
19962£65,875£60,000£71,750
All 17 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
26 Sep 20141 SA8 4LHDetached£210,000
16 May 20081 SA8 4LHDetached£150,000
11 Mar 20081 SA8 4LHDetached£130,000
12 Dec 20142 SA8 4LHDetached£155,000
7 Mar 20022 SA8 4LHDetached£67,500
6 Feb 19963 SA8 4LHDetached£71,750
7 Aug 19984 SA8 4LHDetached£65,500
26 Apr 19964 SA8 4LHDetached£60,000
8 Jul 20225 SA8 4LHDetached£219,950
6 Apr 20095 SA8 4LHDetached£132,000
24 May 20246 SA8 4LHDetached£310,000
29 Oct 19997 SA8 4LHDetached£65,000
16 Oct 20259 SA8 4LHDetached£245,000
30 Jun 20239 SA8 4LHDetached£210,000
17 Apr 20199 SA8 4LHDetached£150,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
19 Jun 20009 SA8 4LHDetached£64,000
8 Oct 199911 SA8 4LHDetached£68,500

House prices and rents in Neath Port Talbot

A typical home in Neath Port Talbot cost £165,787 in August 2026, 2% more than a year before. That is 27% more than five years earlier and 72% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£259,293
Semi-detached£168,614
Terraced£140,457
Flat or maisonette£82,192
Bought by a first-time buyer£153,277

Private renters in Neath Port Talbot paid £692 a month on average in September 2026, 6.3% more than a year before. That is 43% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£501
Two bedrooms£636
Three bedrooms£728
Four or more bedrooms£978

Sources: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry, with the ONS and the Welsh Government), to August 2026; ONS Price Index of Private Rents, to September 2026. Figures for the whole council area, not this street. The typical price is adjusted for the mix of homes that sold, so it is not the value of any one home; the street's own sales are above. Rents are the average paid on all private tenancies, new and existing, so they move more slowly than rents being advertised.

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from January 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

7 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 91 m². Most common: House, detached (6); Bungalow, detached (1). Built: 1983-1990 (5); 2003-2006 (1); 1967-1975 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (6).

Each home's certificates and sales (7 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 13,573 kWh of it on average in 2024, 16% more than the district's 11,675 kWh, and 3,100 kWh of electricity, about the same as the district. There are gas meters for about 97% of the homes.

PostcodeElectricity metersTypical electricityGas metersTypical gas
SA8 4LH113,270 kWh 1014,406 kWh
SA8 4LF282,422 kWh 2814,083 kWh

These are all the homes on each postcode, whatever their size and however many live in them, so they show the kind of homes and heating here rather than what any one home uses. The typical figure is the median: half the homes used less. The district is SA8.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, postcode level domestic gas and electricity statistics for 2024 (gas from mid-May to mid-May), Open Government Licence: domestic meters on each postcode, from the gas and electricity industry's meter readings. A postcode with fewer than 5 meters of a fuel has no figures for it.

Council tax

What each band costs in Neath Port Talbot in 2026-27: Band D £2,541 a year on average, including the police and community council charges.

ABCDEFGHI
£1,694£1,977£2,259£2,541£3,106£3,671£4,236£5,083£5,930

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (28% of about 960 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this street; Welsh Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and green belt: Wales has no national record of these; the council's planning department holds them.

Source: DataMapWales (Welsh Government): conservation areas compiled from the councils, and Cadw's listed buildings. Conservation areas are checked at each postcode's centre; some councils' boundaries in this layer have not been updated for years, so the council's own map is the one to rely on. Listed buildings are counted on or by this street. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them.

Energy projects nearby

1 energy project near the street's postcodes.

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
PwllfaWatkin Landfill Gas Site Neath Port Talbot P/05/213 Landfill Gas 3.2 MW Operational Nov 2005 1.3 km (0.8 miles)

Planned projects can change or not go ahead; search the planning authority's applications by the reference shown for the plans, conditions and any objections. Construction brings traffic for some months; once built, solar farms and batteries are usually quiet, while turbines and waste plants can be seen or heard further away.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Renewable Energy Planning Database, Q2 2026 extract, Open Government Licence: renewable electricity and storage projects over 150 kW, operating, being built, permitted or applied for. Shown: wind turbines and plants that burn or digest waste within 5 km (3.1 miles), other projects of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles); refused, withdrawn and abandoned projects are left out. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each project's grid reference.

Roadworks

Street works permits come from the Department for Transport's Street Manager, which covers England only.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 31 October 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

None of the 41 address points in this street's postcodes is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water on Natural Resources Wales's map. Outside those areas the chance is under 0.1% (1 in 1,000) a year.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. The map allows for flood defences. Address points are every property record (UPRN) in the postcode, each counted if it is in an area or within 5 m of one (the maps stop at building walls); a few are not homes, such as garages, business units or caravan pitches. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3. Welsh zones include an allowance for climate change.

Recorded floods

No recorded flood covers the centre of any of this street's postcodes.

Recorded floods are where floodwater was seen or surveyed after a flood. Many floods were never mapped, an outline over a postcode's centre does not mean every home in it flooded, and homes outside one may have. Ask the seller whether the home itself has flooded.

Sources: Natural Resources Wales Recorded Flood Extents; Natural Resources Wales Flood Risk Assessment Wales: rivers, sea and surface water (loaded 30 October 2026), and Flood Map for Planning: rivers and sea (loaded 29 October 2026); address points from OS Open UPRN and the ONS UPRN Directory. Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on Natural Resources Wales's flood risk map.

Contains Natural Resources Wales information © Natural Resources Wales and database right. All rights reserved. Some features of this information are based on digital spatial data licensed from the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology © UKCEH. Defra, Met Office and DARD Rivers Agency © Crown copyright. © Cranfield University. © James Hutton Institute.

Coastal erosion

No projected coastal erosion zone is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency, National Coastal Erosion Risk Mapping 2024 (England), and Natural Resources Wales, National Coastal Erosion Risk Management (Wales), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each zone; where a postcode centre is inside a zone, some homes on it may not be.

Storm overflows

No storm overflow outlet is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes in this record, which covers the overflows reported to the Environment Agency: most of Wales's are reported to Natural Resources Wales instead.

Source: Environment Agency, Event Duration Monitoring storm overflow annual return for 2025, from the water companies' monitors on each overflow in England, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each overflow's outlet. A year's figures are published the following spring; a monitor that worked for less of the year undercounts.

Coal mining

2 of the street's 2 postcodes are in a coalfield, in a low risk area: coal was mined in the area, but no workings shallow enough to matter for building are recorded.

Conveyancers usually still order a coal mining search (CON29M) for a home in a coalfield.

Source: Mining Remediation Authority (formerly the Coal Authority), development high and low risk areas, Open Government Licence. Checked at each postcode's centre, so a home near the edge of an area may differ. It covers coal mining only, not other mining (such as tin, lead, iron or chalk), and is no substitute for a coal mining search. About the risk areas.

Radon

The highest radon potential in the 1 km squares around the street's postcodes is 10 to 30%: up to that share of homes there is estimated to be at or above the Action Level of 200 becquerels per cubic metre. At least part of that area is a radon Affected Area, where 1% or more of homes are.

Radon is a natural radioactive gas from the ground that can build up indoors; long exposure raises the risk of lung cancer. A three-month test with two small detectors is the only way to know a home's level, and a high level can usually be brought down with a sump or better ventilation. Homes built here in recent decades should have radon protection under the building regulations (basic protection from 3%, full protection from 10%). UKHSA sells a radon report for a single address from its detailed map at ukradon.org.

Source: British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency, Indicative Atlas of Radon in Great Britain, Open Government Licence. Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026. Each 1 km square is classed by the highest radon potential found anywhere in it, so a square's figure can overstate it for much of the square; the detailed map is not open data.

Historic landfill

No historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales, historic landfill sites (places where waste was put into or onto the land and no environmental permit is now in force), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each site as mapped; the outlines and dates come from old records and can be approximate. Landfill still operating is not included.

Height above sea level

The street's 12 addresses are between 68 m and 78 m above sea level (74 m on average); the ground rises about 10 m from the lowest to the highest.

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026. Percentages are of premises in each postcode that can get the service, not take-up or speed achieved.

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
SA8 4LF100%100%100%0%
SA8 4LH100%100%100%0%

Water

This street's water is supplied by Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water. The company gives the hardness and quality of the water at an address on its website.

Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water does not publish the hardness of its tap samples as open data; only Yorkshire Water, Wessex Water and Southern Water do.

Sources: water company supply areas (Water UK) and tap samples from Yorkshire Water, Wessex Water and Southern Water, from Stream, CC BY 4.0.

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 8 November 2026; Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage 2024–25 (which stations are on the National Rail network, and their journeys: entries and exits in the year to March); OurAirports (public domain, kept by volunteers); car parks and charging points from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and others: not an official register, so some will be missing, private or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street, not routes, and say nothing about how often anything runs. Stations opened since the end of ORR's year appear when ORR publishes the next one, each December; heritage railways are left out.

NearestDistance
Railway stationsSkewen 44,000 journeys in 2024–256.9 km (4.3 miles)
Llansamlet 38,000 journeys in 2024–257.2 km (4.5 miles)
Neath 839,000 journeys in 2024–257.6 km (4.7 miles)
Bus stops9 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 28 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Alltywerin Pontardawe80 m
Bus or coach stationNeath Bus Station 17.7 km (4.8 miles)
Ferry terminalSwansea Queens Dock Ferry Terminal Swansea Ferry Terminal13.3 km (8.3 miles)
EV charging pointsMFG Charging Station7.3 km (4.5 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsCardiff International Airport CWL50.8 km (32 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 8 November 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Ratings and care homes: Care Quality Commission, latest ratings as at 2 November 2026 (England only; the CQC does not rate dental practices, and Wales's inspectorates give no ratings). Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries1 practice within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Pontardawe Primary Care Centre690 m (0.4 miles)
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Pontardawe Pharmacy590 m (0.4 miles)
NHS dentists1 practice within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Herbert Street (Dental Surgery)590 m (0.4 miles)
HospitalMorriston Hospital7.1 km (4.4 miles)
Police stationSkewen Police Station7 km (4.4 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest RSV Off Licence Cashzone340 m

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, October 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Parc y Brenin Sior V 1.3 ha120 m
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 880 m²120 m
Playing fieldUnnamed 8.2 ha830 m (0.5 miles)
AllotmentsCilybebyll Community Gardens 2,580 m²2.4 km (1.5 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 1.4 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of Saint Peter, a listed building (Grade II*), 380 m south-east. 11 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of Saint PeterListed building, Grade II*380 m south-east
Burial Chamber at Pen-yr-AlltwenScheduled monument1.6 km (1 mile) south-east
Waun y Coed Colliery Branch Canal and Tramroad InclineScheduled monument1.8 km (1.1 miles) east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Coed Cwm-duWood290 m south-west
Glyn-meirch WoodWood500 m (0.3 miles) south-west
Glan-rhyd PlantationWood540 m (0.3 miles) west
Cwm-duValley550 m (0.3 miles) west
Rhos Service ReservoirLake or reservoir1.4 km (0.9 miles) south-east
Mynydd GellionnenHill1.6 km (1 mile) west

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the middle of the street. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)5.04010
Fine particles (PM2.5)4.8205
Particles (PM10)7.84015

All three are within both the UK limits and the WHO guidelines.

Road and rail noise

Source: Welsh Government, Environmental Noise Mapping 2022 (Wales), modelled with Defra's noise model for every road and railway in Wales and published in August 2023, through DataMapWales: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic, not measurements; they leave out aircraft, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic and 54 dB for railways.

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
55 to 5930
Under 55912

3 of the street's 12 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

Climate, daylight and earthquakes

Monthly temperatures and rainfall, sunrise and sunset through the year, and earthquakes recorded nearby since 1970 are much the same across the area, so they are worked out once for Neath Port Talbot: see them on the Neath Port Talbot page.

Nearest schools

Source: Welsh Government address list of schools in Wales, October 2026 (maintained schools only, placed at their postcode). Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Estyn, which inspects Welsh schools, no longer gives grades; its reports describe each school in words.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspectionExam results
YGG Pontardawe Welsh mediumPrimary3–11190 m Estyn reports · My Local School Not published in Wales
Cwmtawe Community School English mediumSecondary11–16750 m (0.5 miles) Estyn reports · My Local School Not published in Wales
Alltwen Primary School English mediumPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Estyn reports · My Local School Not published in Wales
Rhydyfro Primary School English mediumPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Estyn reports · My Local School Not published in Wales
Llangiwg Primary School English mediumPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Estyn reports · My Local School Not published in Wales
YGG Trebannws Welsh mediumPrimary3–111.6 km (1 mile) Estyn reports · My Local School Not published in Wales

Exam results are from the Department for Education's school performance tables (Explore Education Statistics, Open Government Licence), for all pupils at each school. The middle school in England had 63% at the expected standard at the end of primary school (2025), Attainment 8 of 46.0 at GCSE (2026) and an A level average of C+ (2025). Attainment 8 adds up a pupil's grades in eight GCSEs, with English and maths counted twice (90 is the most), averaged over the school's pupils. Progress 8 compares pupils with others who had the same results at the end of primary school; it is not published for GCSEs in 2025 and 2026, as those pupils sat no primary tests during the pandemic. Small year groups swing from year to year, and figures for very small ones are withheld. Wales publishes no school results tables.

Nurseries and childcare

Ofsted registers childcare in England only. In Wales, nurseries, playgroups and childminders are registered and inspected by Care Inspectorate Wales, whose directory of services lists them with their reports.

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 15 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
YGG Pontardawe SA8 4JRSchool/college/university130 m5 Very good9 Jul 2025
Cylch Chwarae Pontardawe SA8 4JRHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises140 m5 Very good27 Sep 2016
S&A Honey SA8 4JRRetailers - other210 m5 Very good24 Jun 2024
The Ponty Cafe SA8 4LRRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen210 m1 Major improvement necessary12 Jun 2025
Bells Bakes SA8 4NJTakeaway/sandwich shop220 m5 Very good21 Feb 2022
Sweet Butterfly Bakes SA8 4JYRetailers - other230 m5 Very good16 Sep 2024
Powerbuilding Hardcore Gym Cafe SA8 4JBTakeaway/sandwich shop250 m5 Very good15 Nov 2021
Zoraiz SA8 4HUTakeaway/sandwich shop330 m5 Very good14 Sep 2026
The Castle Hotel SA8 4HUPub/bar/nightclub340 m5 Very good10 Dec 2010
Bleddyn Howells Family Butcher SA8 4HURetailers - other340 m5 Very good31 Aug 2022
Kumar Stores Ltd SA8 4HURetailers - other340 m5 Very good17 Jul 2018
Flames Pizza SA8 4HUTakeaway/sandwich shop340 m4 Good20 Jan 2026
Cross Fish Bar SA8 4HUTakeaway/sandwich shop340 m5 Very good25 Feb 2026
Meze and Grill Turkish Restaurant SA8 4HURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen340 m5 Very good3 Jun 2026
Ada's Cakery SA8 4JSRetailers - other380 m5 Very good18 Aug 2026

Crime within 250 m

Source: data.police.uk street-level crime, September 2025 to August 2026. Police forces move every crime to the nearest of about 760,000 anonymised map points before publishing, so these are crimes near this street, not on it, and a busy point can collect crimes from a wider area. Counts are of records, not convictions.

54 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences27
Anti-social behaviour9
Public order8
Criminal damage and arson4
Vehicle crime2
Drugs1
Other crime1
Other theft1
Burglary1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Rodfa Alltacham (12); On or near Gwyrddgoed (9); On or near Church Street (8); On or near Maes Iago (6); On or near West Crossways (4).

Policing

This street is policed by South Wales Police. Of the 106,782 crimes it recorded in 2025/26 (April to March), 13.1% had led to someone being charged or summonsed to court, against 9.3% across England and Wales.

In the 12 months November 2025 to October 2026 it answered 91.2% of its 244,202 999 calls within 10 seconds, against a national target of 90% and 89.6% across England and Wales.

What happened to the crimes recorded in 2025/26
OutcomeSouth Wales PoliceEngland and Wales
Charged or summonsed13.1%9.3%
Dealt with out of court (caution, community resolution, penalty notice)2.6%4.4%
Closed with no suspect identified32.2%37.8%
Closed: the victim did not support further action23.7%25.4%
Closed: suspect identified, but not enough evidence19.4%15.1%
Other outcomes (not in the public interest, transferred elsewhere)5.2%3.9%
No outcome yet (still under investigation)3.7%4.0%

Each crime is counted under the outcome it had been given when the figures were taken, a few months after the year ended, so some recorded late in the year were still being investigated. Forces differ in the crimes they deal with (a city force has more shoplifting and fewer rural thefts), which changes these shares, so a difference from England and Wales is not by itself a measure of how well a force investigates. Fraud is not included: it is recorded nationally.

Sources: Home Office, Crime outcomes in England and Wales, open data tables, offences recorded in 2025/26, and 999 call answering data published on police.uk, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Road safety

Source: Department for Transport, road safety data (STATS19), collisions in 2021 to 2025, as published by November 2026. Collisions in which someone was hurt and which were reported to the police, within 150 m of the middle of any of this street's postcodes, or of the street. Severity is the worst injury as the police recorded it.

2 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 1 fatal, 1 serious and 0 slight, in which 2 people died and 1 person was seriously hurt. 50% happened in the dark. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202111
202200
202300
202411
202500
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
1 Oct 2024 18:26 Serious 1 person Minor road, 20 mph Dark, street lights off
11 Oct 2021 14:31 Fatal 2 people Minor road, 30 mph Daylight

Only collisions in which someone was hurt and which the police were told about are here: damage-only collisions and near misses are not, and some injuries are never reported. Positions are recorded by the police, usually to within a few metres. Each year's figures are published the following September.

Traffic on nearby roads

The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles) is the A474 between A4067 and Waun Penlan, Gellygron, Pontardawe, with 9,459 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 160 m from the street's postcodes.

RoadBetweenVehicles a dayLorriesTen years beforeDistance
A474 A4067 to Waun Penlan, Gellygron, Pontardawe 9,459 estimated; counted 2020 2% +6% since 2015 160 m

Each figure is the annual average daily flow: the motor vehicles passing the count point, both ways, on an average day of the year. A point is counted by hand on a weekday every few years and estimated from the trend on similar roads in between. Lorries are heavy goods vehicles, as a share of all motor vehicles.

Source: Department for Transport, road traffic statistics, annual average daily flows to 2025, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each count point.

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this street's postcodes are in: 349 residents in 144 households. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.

Who lives here

Around this streetWales
Median age4743
Children under 1513%17%
Aged 65 and over21%21%

Homes

Around this streetWales
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)85%66%
Owned outright49%38%
Shared ownership0%under 1%
Social rented3%17%
Private rented12%17%

Work and commuting

Around this streetWales
Adults (16 and over) in work57%54%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)2%6%
Retired (of adults)23%25%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)7%6%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)23%26%
Travel to work by car or van64%61%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%under 1%
By any public transport, including bus3%3%
On foot or by bicycle8%8%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)66%60%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away2%10%

Education and languages

Around this streetWales
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)29%32%
No qualifications18%20%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification8%6%
Main language English or Welsh (aged 3 and over)97%97%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%under 1%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 5 of 10 on the Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of Wales's 1,917 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025 (Welsh Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

Politics

This street is in the Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe constituency. Its MP is David Chadwick, Liberal Democrat.

2024 general election in Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe
CandidatePartyVotesShareChange
David Chadwick (elected)Liberal Democrat13,736 29.5% +0.3
Fay JonesConservative12,264 26.4% -20.3
Matthew DorranceLabour9,904 21.3% +3.8
Adam HillReform UK6,567 14.1% +12.3
Emily Durrant-MunroPlaid Cymru2,280 4.9% +1.7
Amerjit Kaur-DhaliwalGreen Party1,188 2.6% +2.1
Jonathan HarringtonAbolish the Welsh Assembly Party372 0.8%
Lady Lily The PinkOfficial Monster Raving Loony Party237 0.5% -0.2

Liberal Democrat gain from Conservative, with a majority of 1,472 votes (3.2%). 46,548 valid votes from an electorate of 73,114, a turnout of 63.8%.

Change is in percentage points of the vote on 2019, recalculated for the 2024 boundaries (the notional result), so it compares like with like where the constituency changed shape; it is blank where the party or candidate did not stand in 2019.

Sources: UK Parliament, election results for the 2024 general election, and the Members API for the current MP (as at 15 November 2026). Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0.

Senedd: Brycheiniog Tawe Nedd

This street is in the Brycheiniog Tawe Nedd Senedd constituency, one of 16 that each elect six Members of the Senedd from party lists. Its Members now: Jane Dodds (Liberal Democrat), James Evans (Reform UK), Sioned Williams (Plaid Cymru), Iain McIntosh (Reform UK), David Mills (Reform UK), Rebeca Phillips (Plaid Cymru).

At the election on 7 May 2026 its seats went to Reform UK 3, Plaid Cymru 2, Liberal Democrat 1, on a turnout of 53% of 153,435 electors.

Sources: Senedd Cymru, Members of the Senedd (as at 15 November 2026), and ONS, Output Area to Senedd constituency lookup, Open Government Licence v3.0; the 2026 result from Democracy Club, CC BY 4.0.

Council: Pontardawe ward, Neath Port Talbot

This street is in this ward. Its latest election was on 5 May 2022, for 2 seats.

5 May 2022 in Pontardawe
CandidatePartyVotes
Anthony John Richards (elected)Plaid Cymru783
Charles Heath Davies (elected)Plaid Cymru781
Meirion DaviesLabour732
Jill LordLabour650

Councils elect all their members every four years or a third of them in three years out of four, so the members for a ward can come from more than one election; a councillor may have changed party since being elected.

Source: council election candidates and results from Democracy Club, CC BY 4.0.

What has changed

Nothing new since the change feed started on 30 October 2026. New sales and energy certificates, and hygiene ratings, school inspections and flood figures nearby, will be listed here as the sources update.

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Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers November 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

Nearby streets

Bryn Celyn · Bryn Derwen · Rodfa Alltacham · Alltywerin · Hopkin Street · Ffordd Brynheulog · Alltycham Drive · Gwyrddgoed · Haulfryn · James Street · Quarr Road · Brynawel

All the streets in SA8 and across Neath Port Talbot.

What this page cannot tell you

  • Whether a particular house is at risk of flooding, subsiding or anything else: the flood map is a model of areas and there is no property-level data here.
  • What a home is worth now: sales are historic prices for the homes that happened to sell.
  • How safe the street is: crime points are moved to anonymised locations and many crimes are never reported; road collisions count only those in which someone was hurt and the police were told.
  • Whether you would get a place at a school: distances are straight lines, not catchments.
  • Who lives on the street now: census figures describe the small areas around it in March 2021, during a lockdown.
  • How long a journey takes or how often anything runs: transport distances are straight lines to the nearest stops.
  • Whether a GP practice is taking new patients, or a dentist new NHS patients.
  • How loud a home is inside, or noise from industry, neighbours or smaller airfields: noise figures are models of road, rail and air traffic outside.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.