Grovesend

8°CPartly Cloudy

• Today: 11° / 5° · 13% rain
• Tomorrow: 11° / 7° · Sunny

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 07:13Sunset 16:45

9h 32m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

17US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Port Talbot Little Warren, United Kingdom

24 reported · August 2026▼ 17% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences12
• Public order5
• Anti-social behaviour3
• Criminal damage & arson2

Neighbourhood team: Gorseinon and Penyrheol · 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)

155 food businesses within 2 miles

• 131 rated 4–5 ★ (101 top)
• 4 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Llangennech (2.9 km)
• 19 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 (8.5 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 186.9p · BP (9.4 km)

9 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

20 charging locations within ~8 km

• 6 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 360 kW
• Nearest: Goreseinon Car Park (1.9 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres1
• Gyms1
• Sports pitches13
• Playgrounds3

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

Tonia Antoniazzi

Labour

Gower

Source: UK Parliament

Labour majority

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

• Schools4
• Parks & greens3

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

8,570 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

9 jobs advertised · £43,757 avg

e.g. Housekeeping Assistant - Bank - Care Home, Sales Representative, Warehouse Section Leader

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%

356 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

7 GP surgeries · 10 pharmacies in SA4

• Community Resource Team
• Abmu Continence Service
• Heart Failure Clinic Comm

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Gower:

• Remove sentence reductions for guilty pleas in controlling and coercive cases261 local signatures · 105,832 nationwide
• Hold a UK-wide briefing on climate and nature risks218 local signatures · 127,144 nationwide
• Change surrogacy law to recognise intended parents from birth199 local signatures · 113,305 nationwide
• Introduce legislation to make it possible to renumerate emergency volunteers181 local signatures · 13,821 nationwide
• End the mandatory fortification of white flour with folic acid immediately141 local signatures · 76,640 nationwide

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

• 
  Grovesend · 0.3 km

  Grovesend is a village in the community of Grovesend and Waungron, City and County of Swansea in Wales. The community has a population of 1,131.

• Grovesend railway station · 0.8 km

  Grovesend railway station served the village of Grovesend, in the historical county of Glamorganshire, Wales, from 1910 to 1932 on the Llanelly Railway.

• 
  Penyrheol Comprehensive School · 1.0 km

  Penyrheol Comprehensive School is a secondary school in Gorseinon, Swansea, Wales.

• Penyrheol, Swansea · 1.1 km

  Penyrheol is a suburban district of Swansea, Wales falling within the Penyrheol ward. Penyrheol is located about 7 miles (11 km) north west of Swansea city centre in northwest Gorseinon.

• 
  Penyrheol (Swansea electoral ward) · 1.3 km

  Penyrheol is the name of an electoral ward and a suburb in the City and County of Swansea, Wales, UK.

• 
  Gorseinon (electoral ward) · 1.4 km

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

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)