Elm Crescent Penllergaer, Swansea

99 addresses across 2 postcodes (SA4), about 560 m (0.3 miles) long, classed as a local road. USRN 39106860.

  • Sales: 263 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £225,000 across 2 sales.
  • Energy: 57 homes have an energy certificate (C: 36, D: 21).
  • Flood: No postcode centre on the street is in flood zone 2 or 3.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band E; Band D in Swansea costs £2,238 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Gowerton, about 3.8 km (2.4 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Penllergare Valley Woods, is about 310 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 4.7 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 90 to 96 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 42 of its 99 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Cheriton Medical Centre, about 2.7 km (1.7 miles) away.
  • People: About 390 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 72% of households owned their home and 48% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 8 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
20262£225,000£200,000£250,000
20255£239,950£225,000£300,000
20243£209,000£155,000£240,000
20236£198,500£128,000£215,000
20222£218,375£186,750£250,000
20213£216,000£151,000£225,000
20202£176,500£170,000£183,000
20192£138,250£116,500£160,000
20184£168,250£146,160£204,450
20173£183,000£148,050£270,000
20165£145,000£119,750£184,950
20153£137,000£108,000£185,000
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 263)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
12 Jun 202671 SA4 9ZSSemi-detached£240,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
30 Jan 20264 SA4 9ZTSemi-detached£250,000
23 Jan 202623 SA4 9ZSTerraced£200,000Leasehold.
30 Oct 202595 SA4 9ZSSemi-detached£238,000
24 Oct 202519 SA4 9ZSOther£5,100Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
6 Aug 202532 SA4 9ZTDetached£300,000Leasehold.
2 Jul 20257 SA4 9ZSTerraced£172,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
27 Jun 202511 SA4 9ZSTerraced£252,500Leasehold.
30 May 202539 SA4 9ZSSemi-detached£239,950
23 May 202580 SA4 9ZTDetached£225,000
14 Feb 2025103 SA4 9ZSSemi-detached£169,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
13 Jan 202556 SA4 9ZTSemi-detached£177,500Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
5 Jul 2024105 SA4 9ZSSemi-detached£209,000
13 Jun 202450 SA4 9ZTSemi-detached£155,000
29 Apr 202436 SA4 9ZTDetached£240,000Leasehold.
2 Feb 202436 SA4 9ZTOther£5,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
10 Nov 202358 SA4 9ZTSemi-detached£215,000
29 Sep 202389 SA4 9ZSSemi-detached£215,000
4 Aug 202355 SA4 9ZSSemi-detached£174,000
9 Jun 20237 SA4 9ZSTerraced£128,000
5 May 202341 SA4 9ZSSemi-detached£197,000
20 Feb 202311 SA4 9ZSTerraced£200,000Leasehold.
8 Aug 202297 SA4 9ZSDetached£250,000
7 Jan 202233 SA4 9ZSTerraced£186,750Leasehold.
25 Jun 202179 SA4 9ZSDetached£225,000Leasehold.
23 Jun 202166 SA4 9ZTDetached£216,000Leasehold.
28 May 202152 SA4 9ZTSemi-detached£151,000Leasehold.
9 Nov 202089 SA4 9ZSSemi-detached£183,000Leasehold.
23 Oct 202058 SA4 9ZTSemi-detached£170,000Leasehold.
1 Mar 201917 SA4 9ZSDetached£160,000
25 Feb 201925 SA4 9ZSTerraced£116,500Leasehold.
14 Dec 201818 SA4 9ZTDetached£174,000Leasehold.
17 Oct 201855 SA4 9ZSSemi-detached£146,160
17 Oct 201855 SA4 9ZSOther£4,600Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
5 Oct 201811 SA4 9ZSTerraced£162,500Leasehold.
14 Sep 201872 SA4 9ZTDetached£204,450
29 Mar 201839 SA4 9ZSSemi-detached£139,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
4 Dec 201789 SA4 9ZSSemi-detached£148,050Leasehold.
27 Oct 201777 SA4 9ZSDetached£183,000
20 Oct 201773 SA4 9ZSOther£4,100Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
13 Apr 201793 SA4 9ZSDetached£270,000Leasehold.
9 Dec 201647 SA4 9ZSSemi-detached£145,000Leasehold.
7 Oct 201671 SA4 9ZSSemi-detached£137,000Leasehold.
8 Sep 201623 SA4 9ZSTerraced£119,750Leasehold.
29 Jul 201653 SA4 9ZSDetached£184,950
13 May 201697 SA4 9ZSDetached£174,000
31 Mar 201673 SA4 9ZSSemi-detached£122,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
16 Oct 201584 SA4 9ZTSemi-detached£137,000
11 Sep 201570 SA4 9ZTDetached£185,000
2 Feb 201525 SA4 9ZSTerraced£108,000Leasehold.

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 December 2008 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

57 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 78 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (24); House, detached (22); House, end-terrace (6). Built: 1996-2002 (49); 1991-1995 (6); 1983-1990 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (28); rented (private) (13); rented (social) (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (31 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Swansea in 2026-27: Band D £2,238 a year on average, including the police and community council charges.

ABCDEFGHI
£1,492£1,741£1,990£2,238£2,736£3,233£3,730£4,477£5,223

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band E (27% of about 1,110 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 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.

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 103 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.

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 99 addresses are between 90 m and 96 m above sea level (94 m on average); the ground rises about 7 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
SA4 9ZS100%100%100%0%
SA4 9ZT100%100%100%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 stationsGowerton 159,000 journeys in 2024–253.8 km (2.4 miles)
Swansea 2.3 million journeys in 2024–256.1 km (3.8 miles)
Llangennech 4,320 journeys in 2024–256.4 km (4 miles)
Bus stops4 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 10 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Keepers Close Parc Penllergaer130 m
Bus or coach stationGorseinon Bus Station Stand 13.4 km (2.1 miles)
Ferry terminalSwansea Queens Dock Ferry Terminal Swansea Ferry Terminal7.9 km (4.9 miles)
Car parksM Parc Fforestfach Car Park2.2 km (1.3 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Gridserve Charging Station940 m (0.6 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsCardiff International Airport CWL54.4 km (34 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 surgeriesCheriton Medical Centre2.7 km (1.7 miles)
PharmaciesTesco Instore Pharmacy2.3 km (1.4 miles)
NHS dentistsKhoshooee LTD3.1 km (1.9 miles)
HospitalGorseinon Hospital3.8 km (2.4 miles)
Police stationGorseinon Police Station3.4 km (2.1 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Rontec - Cross, Penllergaer Cashzone500 m (0.3 miles)

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 garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Penllergare Valley Woods 111 ha310 m
Play areaUnnamed 240 m²1 km (0.6 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.6 ha580 m (0.4 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 1,610 m²2.8 km (1.7 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 111 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Penllergaer orchideous house, a scheduled monument, 160 m north-east. 3 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Penllergaer orchideous houseScheduled monument160 m north-east
The Equatorial Observatory, PenllergareListed building, Grade II*390 m north
Remains of Astronomical Observatory at PenllergaerScheduled monument390 m north
PenllergareRegistered park or garden, Grade II590 m (0.4 miles) south-east
Garn Goch Round BarrowScheduled monument1.8 km (1.1 miles) west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Penbwl WoodWood460 m (0.3 miles) north
Coed Cwm Penlle'r-gaerWood480 m (0.3 miles) east
Graig-neddfwch WoodWood910 m (0.6 miles) south-east
Tircoed ForestWood1.3 km (0.8 miles) north
Tyle-DuHill1.9 km (1.2 miles) north
Cwm y LladronValley2.7 km (1.7 miles) south-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)6.34010
Fine particles (PM2.5)4.7205
Particles (PM10)7.64015

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
70 to 7410
65 to 69140
60 to 6460
55 to 59210
Under 555799

42 of the street's 99 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 Swansea: see them on the Swansea 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
Penllergaer Primary School English mediumPrimary3–11740 m (0.5 miles) 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.

No rated food businesses within 500 m (0.3 miles).

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.

8 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences5
Anti-social behaviour1
Possession of weapons1
Public order1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Oak Way (3); On or near Ffordd Dillwyn-Llewellyn (2); On or near Llarwydden Close (1); On or near Elm Crescent (1); On or near Clos Penbwl (1).

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: 393 residents in 163 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 age3743
Children under 1521%17%
Aged 65 and over8%21%

Homes

Around this streetWales
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)72%66%
Owned outright17%38%
Shared ownership4%under 1%
Social rented7%17%
Private rented17%17%

Work and commuting

Around this streetWales
Adults (16 and over) in work75%54%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)9%25%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)1%6%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)33%26%
Travel to work by car or van65%61%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%under 1%
By any public transport, including busunder 1%3%
On foot or by bicycleunder 1%8%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)71%60%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away8%10%

Education and languages

Around this streetWales
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)48%32%
No qualifications13%20%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification3%6%
Main language English or Welsh (aged 3 and over)94%97%
Cannot speak English well or at all1%under 1%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 10 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

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.

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.

  • SA4 9ZS: 58 addresses of 61 in the postcode
  • SA4 9ZT: 41 addresses of 42 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Spruce Way · Llarwydden Close · Ffordd Dillwyn-Llewellyn · Home Farm Way · Clos Penbwl · Oak Way · Home Farm Way · Keepers Close · Clos Penderri · Plas-y-Fforest · Home Farm Way · Clos Tirffordd

All the streets in SA4 and across Swansea.

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.