Central Square Cardiff / Caerdydd, Cardiff

123 addresses across 7 postcodes (CF10), about 300 m long. USRN 5800355.

  • Flood: At least one postcode centre is in flood zone 3.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band E; Band D in Cardiff costs £2,013 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Cardiff Central, about 60 m away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 470 m (0.3 miles) away, and Bute Park (45 hectares) is about 620 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 16.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.0 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 8 to 13 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 91 of its 148 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Clare Road Medical Centre, about 740 m (0.5 miles) away, with 10 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 1,170 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 28% of households owned their home and 51% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 965 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.

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.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
Most recent sales (4)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
31 May 2023UNIT 6, B B C BUILDING CF10 1FSOther£431,099Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
19 Sep 2018UNIT 3, B B C BUILDING CF10 1FSOther£122,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
11 Oct 2017HUGH JAMES SOLICITORS, TWO CENTRAL SQUARE CF10 1FSOther£21,000,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
27 Sep 20135 CF10 1EPOther£6,000,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).

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 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

No certificates found for addresses on this street.

Council tax

What each band costs in Cardiff in 2026-27: Band D £2,013 a year on average, including the police and community council charges.

ABCDEFGHI
£1,342£1,566£1,789£2,013£2,461£2,908£3,355£4,026£4,697

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band E (30% of about 5,530 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the 2 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) 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.

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

Rivers, the sea or surface water: of the 277 address points in this street's postcodes, 0 at high risk, 8 at medium risk and 260 at low risk. Each counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: 0 at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 268 at low risk. Surface water and small watercourses alone: 0 at high risk, 8 at medium risk and 47 at low risk.

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: at least one postcode centre is in flood zone 3. Zone 3 is a 1% (1 in 100) or greater annual chance of flooding from rivers, or 0.5% from the sea, ignoring defences. Welsh zones include an allowance for climate change.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low risk
CF10 1FSzone 3 0 / 0 / 71
CF10 1EPzone 3 0 / 0 / 43
CF10 1GFzone 3 0 / 8 / 1
CF10 1FTzone 3 0 / 0 / 2
CF10 1FYzone 3 0 / 0 / 80
CF10 1XRzone 3 0 / 0 / 21
CF10 5DNzone 3 0 / 0 / 42

Sources: 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.

Height above sea level

The street's 152 addresses are between 8 m and 13 m above sea level (10 m on average); the ground rises about 6 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
CF10 1EP100%100%100%0%
CF10 1FS100%100%100%0%
CF10 1FT100%100%100%0%
CF10 1FY0%0%0%0%
CF10 1GF100%100%100%0%
CF10 1XR100%100%100%0%
CF10 5DN91%91%91%0%

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 31 October 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 stationsCardiff Central 13 million journeys in 2024–2560 m
Cardiff Queen Street 2.0 million journeys in 2024–25930 m (0.6 miles)
Grangetown (Cardiff) 259,000 journeys in 2024–251.2 km (0.7 miles)
Bus stops35 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 88 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Wood Street JR Cardiff80 m
Bus or coach stationCardiff Bus Interchange Bay 7 Cardiff Bus Station130 m
Ferry terminalTaffs Mead Waterbus Stop Grangetown230 m
Car parks8 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Apcoa270 m
EV charging points12 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Taff Mead Embankment, Cardiff260 m
Airport with scheduled flightsCardiff International Airport CWL14.4 km (8.9 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 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. 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 surgeries10 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Clare Road Medical Centre740 m (0.5 miles)
Pharmacies10 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boots50 m
NHS dentists8 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Golate Dental Practice320 m
HospitalChild And Family Service, St David Hospital1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Police stationCardiff Central Police Station1 km (0.6 miles)
Cash machines10 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Cardiff Central Station NatWest70 m

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 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 garden9 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,080 m²470 m (0.3 miles)
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Bute Park 45 ha620 m (0.4 miles)
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 500 m²590 m (0.4 miles)
Playing fieldUnnamed 4.2 ha1 km (0.6 miles)
AllotmentsLeckwith Droves Allotments 6.3 ha1.4 km (0.9 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 9 parks and gardens, 57 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Tabernacle Chapel including attached Hall and forecourt railings, a listed building (Grade II*), 370 m north-east. 169 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 5 of them Grade I and 9 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Tabernacle Chapel including attached Hall and forecourt railingsListed building, Grade II*370 m north-east
Howells Department StoreListed building, Grade II*410 m (0.3 miles) north
Cardiff Central MarketListed building, Grade II*440 m (0.3 miles) north
Former Central LibraryListed building, Grade II*470 m (0.3 miles) north-east
Cardiff Castle and Roman FortScheduled monument680 m (0.4 miles) north
Dominican FriaryScheduled monument850 m (0.5 miles) north-west
Cathays ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II1 km (0.6 miles) north
Grange GardensRegistered park or garden, Grade II1 km (0.6 miles) south
The Wreck of the "Louisa"Scheduled monument1.9 km (1.2 miles) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Cardiff Bay WetlandsWetland1.9 km (1.2 miles) south
Roath DockLake or reservoir2.3 km (1.4 miles) south-east
Factory WoodWood2.3 km (1.4 miles) south-west
Cwm CydfinValley2.7 km (1.7 miles) south-west
Bae CaerdyddBay2.7 km (1.7 miles) south
Cock HillHill2.9 km (1.8 miles) 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)16.34010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.0205
Particles (PM10)10.24015

All three are within the UK legal limits; nitrogen dioxide and PM2.5 are above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

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
75 dB or more81
70 to 7474
65 to 69319
60 to 643440
55 to 591165
Under 555729

91 of the street's 148 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, and 119 from railways, 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 Cardiff: see them on the Cardiff 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.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
St Mary The Virgin C.I.W. Primary School Church in Wales English mediumPrimary3–11550 m (0.3 miles) Estyn reports · My Local School
St Patrick's R.C. Primary School Roman Catholic English mediumPrimary4–11920 m (0.6 miles) Estyn reports · My Local School
St Cuthbert's R.C. Primary School Roman Catholic English mediumPrimary4–111 km (0.6 miles) Estyn reports · My Local School
Ninian Park Primary School English mediumPrimary3–111.2 km (0.7 miles) Estyn reports · My Local School
Grange Town Primary English mediumPrimary4–111.2 km (0.7 miles) Estyn reports · My Local School
Grangetown Nursery SchoolNursery3–51.4 km (0.8 miles) Estyn reports · My Local School
Tredegarville C/W Primary Church in Wales English mediumPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Estyn reports · My Local School
St.paul's C/W Primary School Church in Wales English mediumPrimary4–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Estyn reports · My Local School
Kitchener Primary School English mediumPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Estyn reports · My Local School
St. Mary's R.c. Primary School Roman Catholic English mediumPrimary3–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Estyn reports · My Local School
Severn Primary English mediumPrimary3–111.5 km (1 mile) Estyn reports · My Local School
Adamsdown Primary School English mediumPrimary3–111.6 km (1 mile) Estyn reports · My Local School

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 3 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
Marks & Spencer Simply Food CF10 1EPRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets50 m5 Very good26 Feb 2024
Choosegreen - MilkSugar CF10 1FSRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen50 m5 Very good10 Apr 2025
Da CF10 1FSRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen70 m4 Good23 Apr 2026
Pitchfork and Provision at Trashed Tech CF10 1FSRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen70 mAwaiting inspection
Baxterstorey 5040 Broadcasting House Cardiff CF10 1FSRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen70 m5 Very good7 Aug 2025
Tesco Stores Ltd CF10 1FSRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets70 m5 Very good10 Nov 2021
Pret A Manger CF10 1FSRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen70 m5 Very good7 Aug 2026
Boots The Chemists CF10 1FTRetailers - other70 m5 Very good28 May 2026
Muffin Break CF10 1FSOther catering premises70 mAwaiting inspection
Upper Crust CF10 1EPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen80 m4 Good7 Nov 2025
W H Smith Travel CF10 1EPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen80 m5 Very good3 Nov 2025
Gourmet Coffee Bar & Kitchen CF10 1EPTakeaway/sandwich shop80 m4 Good2 Apr 2025
Warrens Bakery Cardiff Station CF10 1EPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen90 m4 Good30 Jun 2026
First Class Lounge CF10 1EPOther catering premises100 m5 Very good8 Nov 2017
HMRC Cardiff RC CF10 1ERRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen140 m5 Very good29 Apr 2024

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.

965 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences431
Anti-social behaviour127
Public order103
Other theft64
Criminal damage and arson62
Shoplifting53
Theft from the person31
Bicycle theft31
Vehicle crime24
Drugs14
Robbery13
Other crime4
Possession of weapons4
Burglary4

Most of these are attached to: On or near Heol Eglwys Fair (478); On or near Parking Area (178); On or near Nightclub (91); On or near Ferry Terminal (76); On or near Caerdydd Canolog (62).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 3 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 1,168 residents in 358 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 age2543
Children under 153%17%
Aged 65 and over3%21%

Homes

Around this streetWales
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)28%66%
Owned outright11%38%
Shared ownershipunder 1%under 1%
Social rented4%17%
Private rented68%17%

Work and commuting

Around this streetWales
Adults (16 and over) in work41%54%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)21%6%
Retired (of adults)3%25%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%6%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)49%26%
Travel to work by car or van16%61%
By train, Underground, metro or tram5%under 1%
By any public transport, including bus10%3%
On foot or by bicycle23%8%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)77%60%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away11%10%

Education and languages

Around this streetWales
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)51%32%
No qualifications10%20%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification3%6%
Main language English or Welsh (aged 3 and over)78%97%
Cannot speak English well or at all2%under 1%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 3 to 6 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.

What has changed

  • Food hygiene ratings Crispy Dosa (restaurant/cafe/canteen, CF10 1AB) now 4 Good, was 1 Major improvement necessary (rated 25 September 2026) found 31 October 2026

Everything that has changed on and near this street

Postcodes on this street

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

  • CF10 1FS: 66 addresses of 72 in the postcode
  • CF10 1EP: 44 addresses of 46 in the postcode
  • CF10 1GF: 8 addresses of 9 in the postcode
  • CF10 1FT: 2 addresses
  • CF10 1FY: 1 address of 80 in the postcode
  • CF10 1XR: 1 address of 21 in the postcode
  • CF10 5DN: 1 address of 45 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Wood Street · Park Street · Scott Road · Havelock Street · Park Street · Great Western Lane · Penarth Road · Penarth Road · Saunders Road · Stryd Caroline · Glanfa Gorllewin y Gamlas · Heol y Tollty

All the streets in CF10 and across Cardiff.

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.
  • 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.