Ystradgynlais

6°CClear

• Today: 11° / 4° · 23% rain
• Tomorrow: 10° / 5° · Sunny

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 07:12Sunset 16:44

9h 31m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

34US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Port Talbot Margam, United Kingdom

44 reported · August 2026▲ 10% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences27
• Anti-social behaviour5
• Criminal damage & arson5
• Public order3

Neighbourhood team: Ystradgynlais Ynyscedwyn · Dyfed Powys

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

322 reported road collisions (2025)

153 killed or seriously injured · 440 casualties · 24.2 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

102 food businesses within 2 miles

• 86 rated 4–5 ★ (65 top)
• 4 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• 5 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£237,042 average▲ 1.4% YoY

Across Powys · to 2026-08

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£621 average monthly rent▲ 9.1% YoY

• 1 bed £462
• 2 bed £578
• 3 bed £700

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

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: 169.9p · ESSO (9.8 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 197.9p · ESSO (9.8 km)

3 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)

• Moves in from elsewhere in the UK5,733
• Moves out to elsewhere in the UK4,878
• Net moves+855

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

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)

9,745 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

12 jobs advertised · £24,928 avg

e.g. Cleaner, Bank Team Leader at The Grove, Component Manager

Source: Adzuna

£705 median full-time weekly pay

2.7% 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

11% low-carbon electricity

Gas 89% · Wind 11%

351 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

3 GP surgeries · 5 pharmacies in SA9

• Amman Tawe Partnership
• Pengorof Surgery
• Kaleidoscope The Manse

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

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 safety1,000 local signatures · 12,590 nationwide
• Hold a UK-wide briefing on climate and nature risks442 local signatures · 127,144 nationwide
• Provide lifelong vet care and financial support for retired service animals177 local signatures · 55,079 nationwide
• End the mandatory fortification of white flour with folic acid immediately166 local signatures · 76,640 nationwide
• Support the Ceramics Industry and protect British manufacturing jobs and skills140 local signatures · 111,154 nationwide

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

• 
  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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