Cwmbrân

8°CPatchy rain nearby

• Today: 9° / 6° · 59% rain
• Tomorrow: 9° / 4° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 07:11Sunset 16:39

9h 28m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

23US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Newport St Julians Comp School, United Kingdom

436 reported · August 2026▲ 6% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences123
• Anti-social behaviour97
• Shoplifting67
• Public order51

Neighbourhood team: St Dials · Gwent

Source: data.police.uk (within ~1 mile)

86 reported road collisions (2025)

34 killed or seriously injured · 109 casualties · 9.3 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

310 food businesses within 2 miles

• 260 rated 4–5 ★ (197 top)
• 6 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Cwmbran (1.1 km)
• 54 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£194,895 average▼ 2.8% YoY

Across Torfaen · to 2026-08

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£862 average monthly rent▲ 1.7% YoY

• 1 bed £616
• 2 bed £766
• 3 bed £897

Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents · to 2026-08

5.6× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 5.6 times median annual pay (5.4× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

• Cheapest petrol: 154.9p · Esso (5.4 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 189.9p · Esso (5.4 km)

11 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

50 charging locations within ~8 km

• 13 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 150 kW
• Nearest: Cwmbran Village Surgery Car Park (0.4 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres3
• Gyms3
• Sports pitches57
• Golf courses2
• Playgrounds17

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

92,276 residents in Torfaen · 734/km²

• Under 16: 19%
• 16–64: 61%
• 65+: 21%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

• Moves in from elsewhere in the UK2,753
• Moves out to elsewhere in the UK2,563
• Net moves+190

Residential moves between local authorities (counts of moves, not people) · ONS Internal migration, YE Jun 2025

Less deprived than the average in Wales

5% of neighbourhoods are in Wales’s most deprived 10%; 32% in the most deprived 20%

Source: Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2019

Property band mix

Most homes here are Band B (30% of 43,330)

Source: VOA council-tax stock · MHCLG band levels 2026-27 · £ figures England only

Nick Thomas-Symonds

Labour

Torfaen

Source: UK Parliament

Labour majority

Source: Open Council Data UK (CC BY-SA)

• Schools13
• GPs & clinics4
• Pharmacies2
• Supermarkets8
• Parks & greens11
• Restaurants & cafés54

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

2,825 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

£757 median full-time weekly pay

3.7% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£20,558 disposable income per head (2024)

Source: ONS / Nomis (claimant count · ASHE) · ONS regional GDHI

49% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: C · 42,300 certificates

Source: MHCLG EPC statistics

12% low-carbon electricity

Gas 88% · Wind 12%

346 gCO₂/kWh · very high intensity

Latest estimate for South Wales · National Grid ESO

• Life satisfaction7.4
• Feeling worthwhile7.7
• Happiness yesterday7.3
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.1

Average rating out of 10 · ONS personal well-being 2022-23

12 GP surgeries · 9 pharmacies in NP44

• Gwent Healthcare Trust
• Gwent Healthcare Trust
• Gwent Healthcare Trust

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Torfaen:

• Review the law on unfit to plead & reform it to protect victims & public safety490 local signatures · 12,590 nationwide
• Change surrogacy law to recognise intended parents from birth222 local signatures · 113,305 nationwide
• Provide lifelong vet care and financial support for retired service animals189 local signatures · 55,079 nationwide
• Launch a public inquiry into illegal migration in the UK177 local signatures · 78,478 nationwide
• Make catapult attacks against animals a standalone criminal offence170 local signatures · 55,084 nationwide

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-10-05

• Cwmbran railway station (Great Western Railway) · 0.4 km

  Cwmbran railway station was a station in the old village of Cwmbran in Torfaen in South Wales, UK.

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  Cwmbran Central · 0.4 km

  Cwmbran Central is a community in Cwmbran, Torfaen, Wales. It had a population of 9,947 as of the 2011 United Kingdom census.

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  Old Cwmbran · 0.4 km

  Old Cwmbran is an area of Cwmbran, Torfaen in Wales, within the historic boundaries of Monmouthshire.

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  Cwmbran · 0.6 km

  Cwmbran, officially spelled using the Welsh spelling Cwmbrân, is a town in the county borough of Torfaen, in the south of Wales. Lying within the historic boundaries of Monmouthshire, it was designated as a new town i…

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  Cwmbran Centre · 0.6 km

  The Cwmbran Centre, renamed M Cwmbran from March 2024, is a shopping centre, office and leisure complex in the town of Cwmbran, Torfaen, Wales. It was formerly named Cwmbran Shopping, then renamed Cwmbran Centre on 3…

• St Dials · 0.6 km

  St Dials is a suburb of Cwmbran in the county borough of Torfaen, in south-east Wales.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)