Glais

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• Today: 10° / 5° · 22% rain
• Tomorrow: 9° / 5° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 07:15Sunset 16:43

9h 28m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

21US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Swansea Morriston Roadside, United Kingdom

24 reported · August 2026▲ 50% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences10
• Anti-social behaviour4
• Public order4
• Burglary2

Neighbourhood team: Llansamlet · South Wales

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

107 reported road collisions (2025)

22 killed or seriously injured · 140 casualties · 4.5 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

105 food businesses within 2 miles

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

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Llansamlet (3.1 km)
• 5 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£211,177 average▲ 1.8% YoY

Across Swansea · to 2026-08

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£852 average monthly rent▲ 6.2% YoY

• 1 bed £688
• 2 bed £797
• 3 bed £897

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

5.4× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 5.4 times median annual pay (5.2× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

• Cheapest petrol: 136.8p · AppleGreen (4.1 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 186.9p · BP (3.6 km)

7 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

23 charging locations within ~8 km

• 5 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 50 kW
• Nearest: Clydach Car Park (1.3 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres1
• Sports pitches16
• Golf courses1
• Playgrounds5

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

238,489 residents in Swansea · 632/km²

• Under 16: 17%
• 16–64: 62%
• 65+: 20%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

• Moves in from elsewhere in the UK11,408
• Moves out to elsewhere in the UK12,622
• Net moves−1,214

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

Around the average in Wales

11% of neighbourhoods are in Wales’s most deprived 10%; 23% in the most deprived 20%

Source: Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2019

Property band mix

Most homes here are Band B (25% of 115,650)

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

Carolyn Harris

Labour

Neath and Swansea East

Source: UK Parliament

Labour majority

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

• Schools4
• Supermarkets2
• Parks & greens1

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

8,570 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

1 jobs advertised · £40,560 avg

e.g. Cook

Source: Adzuna

£719 median full-time weekly pay

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

£20,255 disposable income per head (2024)

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

40% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 111,325 certificates

Source: MHCLG EPC statistics

10% low-carbon electricity

Gas 90% · Wind 10%

355 gCO₂/kWh · very high intensity

Latest estimate for South Wales · National Grid ESO

• Life satisfaction7.5
• Feeling worthwhile7.6
• Happiness yesterday7.3
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.5

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

1 GP surgery · 1 pharmacy in SA7

• Llwyn Brwydrau Surgery

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Neath and Swansea East:

• Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases407 local signatures · 105,832 nationwide
• Review the law on unfit to plead & reform it to protect victims & public safety291 local signatures · 12,590 nationwide
• Change surrogacy law to recognise intended parents from birth230 local signatures · 113,305 nationwide
• Review discharge of mental health patients223 local signatures · 14,649 nationwide
• Launch a public inquiry into illegal migration in the UK150 local signatures · 78,478 nationwide

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

• Glais (2nd) railway station · 0.1 km

  Glais railway station served the community of Glais in Swansea, Wales from 1885 to 1965 on the Swansea Vale Railway.

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  Clydach (electoral ward) · 1.1 km

  Clydach is an electoral ward in the City and County of Swansea, Wales, UK.

• Calfaria Chapel, Penygroes · 1.5 km

  Calfaria is a Baptist chapel in the village of Penygroes in the community of Llandybie, near Ammanford, Carmarthenshire. Services at Calfaria were conducted in the Welsh language until recently but are now bilingual.

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  Clydach-on-Tawe railway station · 1.5 km

  Clydach-on-Tawe railway station served the community of Clydach and Ynystawe in Swansea, Wales, from 1885 to 1965 on the Swansea Vale Railway.

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  Lower Clydach River · 1.6 km

  The Lower Clydach River is a river in South Wales which rises on the slopes of Mynydd y Betws west of Cwmgors and flows for around 10 km through Cwm Clydach to its confluence with the River Tawe at Clydach. It runs th…

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  Clydach War Memorial Hospital · 1.7 km

  Clydach War Memorial Hospital was a community hospital in Clydach, Swansea, Wales. It was managed by the Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Board.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)