Clydach

What is it like to live in Clydach?

Homes sold for a typical £166,000 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 83 of the 176 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. It has 5 primary schools at its postcodes. One GP practice is at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Llansamlet, 4.3 km 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 Clydach?

Homes in Clydach sold for a typical £166,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 79 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £175,000 from 105 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.

• Detached £270,000 15 sales
• Semi-detached £166,000 41 sales
• Terraced £140,000 23 sales

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

Across the whole SA6 district, Clydach's main postcode district: a typical £173,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Clydach: 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 Clydach?

None of the 177 postcodes now in use in Clydach came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 1 of the 105 homes sold in Clydach were newly built (Under 1%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the SA6 district, Under 1%.

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 Clydach?

Ofcom reports on 176 of the 177 postcodes in Clydach. At 83 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 1 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s).

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 Clydach?

The primary schools are at the postcodes in Clydach. There is no secondary school at its postcodes; these are the nearest to its middle. 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 Clydach?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Clydach is Llansamlet Rail Station, 4.3 km away in a straight line.

• Llansamlet Rail Station Railway station 4.3 kmCycle
• Skewen Rail Station Railway station 5.3 kmDrive
• Neath Rail Station Railway station 7.1 kmDrive

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 Clydach?

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

• Cwmtawe Medical Group Phone 01792 843831 500 mWalk

Source: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026.

Is Clydach safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 609 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Clydach 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: drugs 14, other crime 14, possession of weapons 6, theft from the person 2, bicycle theft 2, robbery 1.

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 Clydach?

Councils

Swansea (148) and Neath Port Talbot (29)

Parliamentary constituencies

Neath and Swansea East (148) and Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe (29)

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.