Bridgend

What is it like to live in Bridgend?

Homes sold for a typical £235,000 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 799 of the 1,007 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. It has 12 primary schools and 3 secondary schools at its postcodes within 12 km of its centre. 3 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Bridgend, 250 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.

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Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data; Ofcom Connected Nations; Welsh Government school list; NHS GP practices; NaPTAN. Each figure is from a section of this page, which gives its date.

What do homes cost in Bridgend?

Homes in Bridgend sold for a typical £235,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 693 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £230,000 from 757 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.

• Detached £325,000 237 sales
• Semi-detached £225,000 288 sales
• Terraced £185,000 146 sales
• Flat or maisonette £126,000 22 sales

Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.

Across the whole CF31 district, Bridgend's main postcode district: a typical £230,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Bridgend: standard sales of homes at market value. A typical price is the median, the middle sale. Sales take weeks to be registered, so the last month or two are incomplete. Each postcode page gives the figure for its own postcode sector.

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.

Are new homes being built in Bridgend?

47 of the 1,085 postcodes now in use in Bridgend came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 1 of the 757 homes sold in Bridgend were newly built (Under 1%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the CF31 district, Under 1%.

The newest postcodes

A new postcode is often a new street or estate, but Royal Mail also makes new postcodes when it reorganises old ones, so not every one means new homes. Only postcodes still in use are counted.

New homes among the homes sold

Standard sales of homes at market value that HM Land Registry marks as newly built. New homes take longer to be registered than other sales, so the latest 12 months count fewer of them than were sold. A share is given from 5 sales or more.

Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.

What broadband can you get in Bridgend?

Ofcom reports on 1,007 of the 1,085 postcodes in Bridgend. At 799 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Ofcom gives each postcode's share of homes and businesses, not how many there are, so these count postcodes. Each postcode page has its own figures. A provider's checker answers for one address.

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026.

Which schools are in Bridgend?

The open schools at the postcodes in Bridgend (the first 8 primaries by distance from its middle). A school for ages 4 to 18 is listed under both. Distances are straight lines from the middle of its postcodes. Distance is not a catchment: each council sets its own admission rules.

Source: Welsh Government school list, read 27 October 2026. Each school opens its page on My Local School.

How far is the station from Bridgend?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Bridgend is Bridgend Rail Station, 250 m away in a straight line.

• Bridgend Rail Station Railway station 250 mWalk
• Wildmill Rail Station Railway station 1.3 kmCycle
• Sarn Rail Station Railway station 3.4 kmCycle

Straight-line distances from the centre point, not routes. Walk: under 1.2 km. Cycle: 1.2 to 5 km. Drive: further.

Straight-line distances from the middle of the postcodes, not routes. Each postcode page lists its own nearest stations and bus stops. The Department for Transport's register does not say how often services run.

Source: NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.

Which GP surgeries are in Bridgend?

The GP practices at the postcodes in Bridgend. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.

• Riversdale House Phone 01656 766866 700 mWalk
• Bridgend Group Phone 01656 652774 800 mWalk
• Oak Tree Surgery Phone 01656 665353 1.2 kmWalk

Source: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026.

Is Bridgend safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 3,560 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Bridgend over the 12 months from September 2025 to August 2026. August 2026 is the latest month it has published. These are counts, not a rate: we hold no count of the people who live, work or pass through, so we do not say whether a place is safe.

Each month, September 2025 to August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Also: other crime 70, burglary 62, robbery 32, possession of weapons 27, bicycle theft 18, theft from the person 16.

Police.uk says its locations "always represent the approximate location of a crime". Each crime is moved to the nearest of a fixed list of map points, each over a street centre, a public place or a commercial premises, chosen so that every point covers at least eight addresses or none. A mile is a wide circle: in a town it takes in the centre and its shops, where much crime is recorded.

Source: police.uk, data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026.

Who runs Bridgend?

Councils

Bridgend (1,076) and Vale of Glamorgan (9)

Parliamentary constituencies

Bridgend (1,076) and Vale of Glamorgan (9)

Police force area

South Wales

Country

Wales

Where the place crosses a boundary, a row lists each side with its number of postcodes. Check a postcode for its own. What council am I in?

Source: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026.