Fleur-de-lis and Pengam

17°COvercast

• Today: 18° / 16° · 74% rain
• Tomorrow: 16° / 10° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:44Sunset 19:32

12h 48m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

9US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Caerphilly White Street, United Kingdom

152 reported · July 2026▲ 2% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences54
• Anti-social behaviour42
• Criminal damage & arson17
• Public order16

Neighbourhood team: Pengam · Gwent

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

155 reported road collisions (2024)

58 killed or seriously injured · 223 casualties · 8.8 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

388 food businesses within 2 miles

• 297 rated 4–5 ★ (219 top)
• 13 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Pengam (1.0 km)
• 33 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£197,272 average▲ 5.9% YoY

Across Caerphilly · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£743 average monthly rent▲ 8.4% YoY

• 1 bed £548
• 2 bed £686
• 3 bed £773

Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents · to 2026-07

5.8× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 5.8 times median annual pay (5.6× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

• Cheapest petrol: 153.9p · BP (10.8 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 184.7p · Asda (1.9 km)

13 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

21 charging locations within ~8 km

• 1 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 50 kW
• Nearest: Pengam Railway Station Car Park 1, Caerphilly (1 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports pitches30
• Playgrounds14

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

175,952 residents in Caerphilly · 634/km²

• Under 16: 18%
• 16–64: 61%
• 65+: 20%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Around the average in Wales

10% of neighbourhoods are in Wales’s most deprived 10%; 24% in the most deprived 20%

Source: Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2019

Property band mix

Most homes here are Band B (33% of 81,180)

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

Chris Evans

Labour (Co-op)

Caerphilly

Source: UK Parliament

Labour majority

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

• Schools13
• GPs & clinics1
• Supermarkets1
• Parks & greens3

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

5,035 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

£710 median full-time weekly pay

3.4% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£20,773 disposable income per head (2024)

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

43% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 77,189 certificates

Source: MHCLG EPC statistics

4% low-carbon electricity

Gas 96% · Wind 4% · Solar 0%

377 gCO₂/kWh · very high intensity

Latest estimate for South Wales · National Grid ESO

• Life satisfaction7.3
• Feeling worthwhile7.8
• Happiness yesterday7.4
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.5

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

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Caerphilly:

• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership398 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office336 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s328 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Review the evidence and fund the addition of SMA to the Newborn Screening Test266 local signatures · 151,287 nationwide
• Review the law on unfit to plead & reform it to protect victims & public safety239 local signatures · 9,865 nationwide

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-08-06

• Fleur-de-Lis Platform railway station · 0.1 km

  Fleur-de-Lis Platform railway station served the village of Fleur-de-lis, in the historical county of Glamorganshire, Wales, from 1926 to 1962 on the Rumney Railway.

• Fleur-de-Lis, Caerphilly · 0.3 km

  Fleur-de-Lis is a village situated in the Rhymney Valley which is part of the South Wales Valleys within Caerphilly County Borough and administered as part of Caerphilly County Borough Council in Wales.

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  Pengam · 0.3 km

  Pengam is a former coal village and community in the Rhymney Valley, Caerphilly county borough, in Wales. It is also a community, containing itself and the nearby village of Fleur de Lys, and at the 2001 census it has…

• Ysgol Gyfun Cwm Rhymni · 0.4 km

  Ysgol Gyfun Cwm Rhymni is a Welsh-medium school situated in the village of Fleur-de-Lys in the Rhymney Valley. Cwm Rhymni was founded in 1981 with just over 150 pupils and has since grown to 1,684 pupils, with 1,164 a…

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  Pengam (Mon) railway station · 0.8 km

  Pengam (Mon) railway station served the village of Pengam, historically in Monmouthshire, Wales, from 1865 to 1962 on the Brecon and Merthyr Tydfil Junction Railway.

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  Pengam railway station · 1.0 km

  Pengam railway station is situated in Pengam on the Rhymney Line of the Valley Lines network in South Wales. It is also the nearest station to the town of Blackwood. It is 16 miles 30 chains (26.4 km) from Cardiff, ne…

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