Hendy and Fforest

What is it like to live in Hendy and Fforest?

Homes sold for a typical £205,000 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 53 of the 60 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. It has 1 primary school at its postcodes. The nearest GP practice is Talybont Surgery, 750 metres from the middle. The nearest railway station is Pontarddulais, 700 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 Hendy and Fforest?

Homes in Hendy and Fforest sold for a typical £205,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 45 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £229,000 from 48 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.

• Detached £315,000 19 sales
• Semi-detached £187,000 17 sales
• Terraced £135,500 9 sales

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

Across the whole SA4 district, Hendy and Fforest's main postcode district: a typical £215,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Hendy and Fforest: 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 Hendy and Fforest?

2 of the 61 postcodes now in use in Hendy and Fforest came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 0 of the 48 homes sold in Hendy and Fforest were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the SA4 district, 13%.

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 Hendy and Fforest?

Ofcom reports on 60 of the 61 postcodes in Hendy and Fforest. At 53 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 Hendy and Fforest?

The primary schools are at the postcodes in Hendy and Fforest. 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 Hendy and Fforest?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Hendy and Fforest is Pontarddulais Rail Station, 700 m away in a straight line.

• Pontarddulais Rail Station Railway station 700 mWalk
• Llangennech Rail Station Railway station 3.3 kmCycle
• Bynea Rail Station Railway station 5.8 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 Hendy and Fforest?

There is no GP practice at the postcodes in Hendy and Fforest. These are the nearest to its middle, in a straight line. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.

• Talybont Surgery Phone 01792 882368 750 mWalk
• Llangennech Surgery Phone 01554 820287 2.9 kmCycle
• Princess Street Surgery Phone 01792 895681 5.2 kmDrive

Source: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026.

Is Hendy and Fforest safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 263 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Hendy and Fforest 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: burglary 8, shoplifting 6, theft from the person 3.

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 Hendy and Fforest?

Council

Carmarthenshire

Parliamentary constituency

Llanelli

Police force area

Dyfed-Powys

Country

Wales

MP

Dame Nia Griffith (Labour)

All 61 postcodes here share these. Wards differ: check a postcode for yours. What council am I in?

Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; UK Parliament, read 14 October 2026.