Nicholas Road Glais, Swansea

27 addresses across 1 postcode (SA7), about 150 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 39101784.

  • Sales: 43 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £207,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 20 homes have an energy certificate (C: 6, D: 10, E: 3, G: 1).
  • 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 C; Band D in Swansea costs £2,238 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 96% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Llansamlet, about 3.1 km (1.9 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 1.2 km (0.7 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 4.9 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 31 to 40 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 13 of its 27 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Cwmtawe Medical Group, about 1.1 km (0.7 miles) away.
  • People: About 290 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 90% of households owned their home and 40% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 16 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
20251£207,000£207,000£207,000
20231£210,000£210,000£210,000
20211£240,000£240,000£240,000
20203£209,000£125,000£277,500
20193£180,000£100,000£199,999
20181£177,000£177,000£177,000
20173£160,000£126,000£200,000
20161£189,950£189,950£189,950
20151£193,000£193,000£193,000
20141£124,995£124,995£124,995
20131£165,000£165,000£165,000
20101£178,000£178,000£178,000
Most recent sales (43)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
15 Dec 202528 SA7 9HASemi-detached£207,000
25 Aug 202322 SA7 9HATerraced£210,000
24 Jun 202222 SA7 9HATerraced£125,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
1 Apr 202120 SA7 9HASemi-detached£240,000
12 Nov 20202 SA7 9HADetached£277,500
27 Aug 202012 SA7 9HASemi-detached£209,000
31 Jan 202014 SA7 9HASemi-detached£125,000
6 Dec 201910 SA7 9HADetached£180,000
25 Oct 201925 SA7 9HADetached£199,999
28 Jun 201912 SA7 9HASemi-detached£100,000
5 Jan 201815 SA7 9HASemi-detached£177,000
1 Sep 201711A SA7 9HADetached£200,000
10 Apr 20174 SA7 9HASemi-detached£160,000
31 Mar 201723 SA7 9HASemi-detached£126,000
5 Aug 201620 SA7 9HASemi-detached£189,950
23 Oct 201511A SA7 9HADetached£193,000
26 Mar 201421 SA7 9HASemi-detached£124,995
11 Jan 20132 SA7 9HADetached£165,000
16 Nov 201025 SA7 9HADetached£178,000
21 May 20088 SA7 9HASemi-detached£180,000
22 Feb 200826 SA7 9HASemi-detached£135,000
7 Dec 200723 SA7 9HASemi-detached£138,000
17 Jul 200711 SA7 9HASemi-detached£177,500
7 Dec 200611 SA7 9HASemi-detached£60,000
8 Dec 200517 SA7 9HASemi-detached£93,000
19 Aug 200515 SA7 9HASemi-detached£132,000
10 Jun 200521 SA7 9HASemi-detached£126,000
26 Nov 200421 SA7 9HASemi-detached£125,000
20 Aug 200414 SA7 9HASemi-detached£90,000
31 Jan 200321 SA7 9HASemi-detached£79,950
6 Nov 200223 SA7 9HASemi-detached£67,000
19 Apr 200225 SA7 9HADetached£103,000
31 Jan 200221 SA7 9HASemi-detached£54,500
14 Sep 20011 SA7 9HASemi-detached£75,000
25 Jun 199915 SA7 9HASemi-detached£30,000
31 Mar 199926 SA7 9HASemi-detached£35,000
22 Mar 19996 SA7 9HASemi-detached£16,250
22 May 19988 SA7 9HASemi-detached£59,950
6 Feb 199828 SA7 9HASemi-detached£26,000
4 Aug 19971 SA7 9HASemi-detached£45,000
25 Jul 199714 SA7 9HASemi-detached£35,000
6 Sep 19969 SA7 9HASemi-detached£41,000
24 Apr 199516 SA7 9HASemi-detached£45,000

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 October 2010 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

20 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 98 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (17); House, detached (3). Built: 1900-1929 (11); before 1900 (6); 2007 onwards (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (14); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (15 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 C (38% of about 610 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 27 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 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 27 addresses are between 31 m and 40 m above sea level (35 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
SA7 9HA100%96%96%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 stationsLlansamlet 38,000 journeys in 2024–253.1 km (1.9 miles)
Skewen 44,000 journeys in 2024–253.9 km (2.4 miles)
Neath 839,000 journeys in 2024–255.9 km (3.7 miles)
Bus stops9 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 9 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Capel Peniel Glais80 m
Bus or coach stationNeath Bus Station 16.2 km (3.8 miles)
Ferry terminalSwansea Queens Dock Ferry Terminal Swansea Ferry Terminal9.1 km (5.6 miles)
EV charging pointsInstaVolt Charging Station3.8 km (2.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsCardiff International Airport CWL49.5 km (31 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 surgeries1 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Cwmtawe Medical Group1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Clydach Health Centre Pharmacy1.1 km (0.7 miles)
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Laurels Dental Practice1.1 km (0.7 miles)
HospitalMorriston Hospital3.8 km (2.3 miles)
Police stationMorriston Police Station3.8 km (2.4 miles)
Cash machinesBT Kiosk o/s premier Capel Buildings- Clydach Cashzone1 km (0.6 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 gardenUnnamed 8,860 m²1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 70 m²200 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4,570 m²560 m (0.3 miles)

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Clydach Upper Forge, a scheduled monument, 1.9 km (1.2 miles) north-west. 2 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Clydach Upper ForgeScheduled monument1.9 km (1.2 miles) north-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Kingrosia ParkWood1.7 km (1.1 miles) north
Coed GlanbrânWood2 km (1.2 miles) south-east
Graig-felen PlantationWood2.1 km (1.3 miles) north-west
Mynydd GelliwastadHill2.4 km (1.5 miles) west
Cwm CrymlynValley3.8 km (2.4 miles) south
Cwm-Clydach PondLake or reservoir4.3 km (2.7 miles) south-east

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)6.04010
Fine particles (PM2.5)4.9205
Particles (PM10)7.44015

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 59130
Under 551427

13 of the street's 27 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
Glais Primary School English mediumPrimary3–11130 m Estyn reports · My Local School
St Joseph's R.c. Primary Roman Catholic English mediumPrimary3–11870 m (0.5 miles) Estyn reports · My Local School
Clydach Primary School English mediumPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Estyn reports · My Local School
Y.G.G. Gellionnen Welsh mediumPrimary3–111.6 km (1 mile) Estyn reports · My Local School
Ynystawe Primary School English mediumPrimary3–111.9 km (1.2 miles) Estyn reports · My Local School
Craigfelen Primary School English mediumPrimary3–111.9 km (1.2 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.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Glais Primary School SA7 9EYSchool/college/university130 m4 Good3 Jul 2026
Glais House Nursing Home SA7 9ENHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises220 m4 Good16 Dec 2025
Glais Rugby Football Club SA7 9ENRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen220 m4 Good20 Feb 2024
CSVA Food & Wine SA7 9ENRetailers - other220 m5 Very good25 Jan 2023
The Globe Inn SA7 9ENPub/bar/nightclub220 m5 Very good21 Aug 2026
The Community Cafe SA7 9ENRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen240 m5 Very good24 Feb 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.

16 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences10
Vehicle crime2
Public order2
Other crime1
Criminal damage and arson1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Y Gwernydd (5); On or near Cefn Road (4); On or near Nicholas Road (3); On or near Clos Y Fran (2); On or near Garth Road (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: 293 residents in 125 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 age4943
Children under 1514%17%
Aged 65 and over23%21%

Homes

Around this streetWales
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)90%66%
Owned outright48%38%
Shared ownership0%under 1%
Social rented0%17%
Private rented10%17%

Work and commuting

Around this streetWales
Adults (16 and over) in work62%54%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)30%25%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)0%6%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)31%26%
Travel to work by car or van62%61%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%under 1%
By any public transport, including bus1%3%
On foot or by bicycle5%8%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)71%60%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away6%10%

Education and languages

Around this streetWales
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)40%32%
No qualifications12%20%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%6%
Main language English or Welsh (aged 3 and over)100%97%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%under 1%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 9 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.

Nearby streets

School Road · Station Road · Cefn Road · Y Gwernydd · Glanllyn Road · Clos y Fran · Garth Road · Lucas Road · Bridge Street · A4067 · Llys-y-Nant · Graigola Road

All the streets in SA7 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.