Ystradgynlais

16°CMist

• Today: 19° / 16° · 74% rain
• Tomorrow: 17° / 12° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:46Sunset 19:34

12h 48m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

19US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: ozone

Source: WAQI · Port Talbot Margam, United Kingdom

40 reported · July 2026▼ 9% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences12
• Anti-social behaviour11
• Public order7
• Other theft2

Neighbourhood team: Ystradgynlais Ynyscedwyn · Dyfed Powys

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

329 reported road collisions (2024)

133 killed or seriously injured · 458 casualties · 24.7 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

102 food businesses within 2 miles

• 87 rated 4–5 ★ (64 top)
• 3 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• 5 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£231,004 average▲ 2.9% YoY

Across Powys · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£622 average monthly rent▲ 9.7% YoY

• 1 bed £462
• 2 bed £579
• 3 bed £701

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

7.9× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 7.9 times median annual pay (6.7× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

• Cheapest petrol: 163.9p · Morrisons (11.5 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 186.9p · Morrisons (11.5 km)

4 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

5 charging locations within ~8 km

• Fastest nearby: 22 kW
• Nearest: Heol Eglwys Car Park, Ystradgynlais (1.2 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres2
• Sports pitches20
• Playgrounds8

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

133,170 residents in Powys · 26/km²

• Under 16: 15%
• 16–64: 57%
• 65+: 28%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Among the least deprived areas in Wales

1% of neighbourhoods are in Wales’s most deprived 10%; 6% in the most deprived 20%

Source: Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2019

Property band mix

Most homes here are Band C (20% of 66,730)

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

David Chadwick

Liberal Democrat

Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe

Source: UK Parliament

Liberal Democrat / Labour coalition

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

• Schools5
• Pharmacies1
• Supermarkets1
• Parks & greens5
• Restaurants & cafés13

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

9,730 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

15 jobs advertised

e.g. Sign Up as A Delivery Person - Earn With Uber Eats, Care Assistant, Tesco Colleague - Ystradgynlais Superstore

Source: Adzuna

£705 median full-time weekly pay

2.6% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£23,047 disposable income per head (2024)

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

32% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 64,719 certificates

Source: MHCLG EPC statistics

5% low-carbon electricity

Gas 95% · Wind 5%

375 gCO₂/kWh · very high intensity

Latest estimate for South Wales · National Grid ESO

• Life satisfaction7.4
• Feeling worthwhile7.8
• Happiness yesterday7.5
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.0

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

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe:

• Review the law on unfit to plead & reform it to protect victims & public safety756 local signatures · 9,865 nationwide
• Hold a referendum to bring the water industry into public ownership352 local signatures · 163,883 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership335 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office302 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s288 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide

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

• 
  Ystradgynlais Community Hospital · 0.2 km

  Ystradgynlais Community Hospital is a health facility in Glanrhyd Road, Ystradgynlais, Powys, Wales. It is managed by the Powys Teaching Health Board.

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  Ynyscedwyn Ironworks · 0.3 km

  Ynyscedwyn Ironworks is an industrial complex located in Ystradgynlais, near Swansea, Wales. Smelting was first established here in seventeenth century. In the 1820s, with the arrival of George Crane, production was e…

• Ysgol Maesydderwen · 0.3 km

  Ysgol Maesydderwen is a state secondary school and sixth form in Ystradgynlais, Powys. As of 2024, there were 542 pupils on roll at the school. It is an English-medium school.

• Ystalyfera railway station · 1.1 km

  Ystalyfera railway station served the village of Ystalyfera, in the historical county of Glamorganshire, Wales, from 1861 to 1950 on the Swansea Vale Railway.

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  Ysgol Gymraeg Ystalyfera Bro Dur · 1.2 km

  Ysgol Gymraeg Ystalyfera Bro Dur is a Welsh-medium comprehensive school in Neath Port Talbot, Wales. The school provides education to three- to eighteen-year-old pupils in Neath Port Talbot and south Powys at three ca…

• Ystradgynlais railway station · 1.2 km

  Ystradgynlais railway station served the town of Ystradgynlais in the traditional county of Breconshire, Wales. Opened in 1873 by the Swansea Vale and Neath and Brecon Junction Railway, it was eventually absorbed by t…

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