St Donat's

17°CPartly Cloudy

• Today: 19° / 13° · 31% rain
• Tomorrow: 18° / 13° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:41Sunset 19:40

12h 59m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

14US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Rhondda Glyncoch Garth Avenue, United Kingdom

90 reported road collisions (2024)

22 killed or seriously injured · 141 casualties · 6.8 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

15 food businesses within 2 miles

• 13 rated 4–5 ★ (11 top)
• 0 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Llantwit Major (3.5 km)
• 1 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£297,999 average▲ 3.3% YoY

Across Vale of Glamorgan · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£987 average monthly rent▲ 4.4% YoY

• 1 bed £730
• 2 bed £893
• 3 bed £1,002

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 (7.7× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

• Cheapest petrol: 135.8p · AppleGreen (11.7 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 140.8p · AppleGreen (11.7 km)

4 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

2 charging locations within ~8 km

• Fastest nearby: 22 kW
• Nearest: Uwc Atlantic (0.1 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres2
• Swimming pools1
• Sports pitches2
• Playgrounds1

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

131,938 residents in Vale of Glamorgan · 398/km²

• Under 16: 19%
• 16–64: 59%
• 65+: 22%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Less deprived than the average in Wales

4% of neighbourhoods are in Wales’s most deprived 10%; 13% in the most deprived 20%

Source: Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2019

Property band mix

Most homes here are Band C (23% of 62,380)

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

Labour / Independent coalition

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

• Parks & greens3

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

5,210 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

1 jobs advertised · £26,624 avg

e.g. Front of house assistant

Source: Adzuna

£791 median full-time weekly pay

3.3% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£26,733 disposable income per head (2024)

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

46% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 63,534 certificates

Source: MHCLG EPC statistics

• Life satisfaction7.5
• Feeling worthwhile7.7
• Happiness yesterday7.4
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.4

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

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Vale of Glamorgan:

• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership444 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office355 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s343 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Review the evidence and fund the addition of SMA to the Newborn Screening Test269 local signatures · 151,287 nationwide
• Hold a referendum to bring the water industry into public ownership234 local signatures · 163,883 nationwide

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

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  Atlantic College Lifeboat Station · 0.2 km

  Atlantic College Lifeboat Station was an inshore lifeboat station based at Atlantic College, which is located on the Bristol Channel coast of South Wales, at St Donats, near Llantwit Major.

• UWC Atlantic · 0.2 km

  United World College of the Atlantic, formerly Atlantic College, is an independent boarding school in Llantwit Major in Wales. Founded in 1962, it was the first of the United World Colleges and was among the first edu…

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  St Donat's Castle · 0.2 km

  St Donat's Castle, St Donats, Wales, is a medieval castle in the Vale of Glamorgan, about 16 miles (26 km) to the west of Cardiff, and about 1+1⁄2 miles (2.4 km) to the west of Llantwit Major. Positioned on cliffs ove…

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  St Donat's Church, St Donats · 0.2 km

  St Donat's Church is a Grade I listed church in St Donats, in the Vale of Glamorgan, south Wales. It became a Grade I listed building on 22 February 1963.

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  St Donats · 0.4 km

  St Donats is a village and community in the Vale of Glamorgan in south Wales, located just west of the small town of Llantwit Major. The community includes the village of Marcross and the hamlets of Monknash and East…

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  Tresilian Bay · 1.3 km

  Tresilian Bay, also Tresillian Bay, is a bay in southeast Wales, west of Llantwit Major's Collugh beach and east of St Donats, on the Bristol Channel. The beach at the bay lies in front of a valley in which the Nant T…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)