Merthyr Tydfil

What is it like to live in Merthyr Tydfil?

Homes sold for a typical £156,750 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 816 of the 1,093 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. It has 13 primary schools, 2 secondary schools and 1 all-through school at its postcodes within 12 km of its centre. At least 5 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Merthyr Tydfil, 950 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 Merthyr Tydfil?

Homes in Merthyr Tydfil sold for a typical £156,750 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 262 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £145,000 from 398 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.

• Detached £310,000 39 sales
• Semi-detached £208,000 61 sales
• Terraced £130,000 155 sales
• Flat or maisonette £75,500 7 sales

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

Across the whole CF47 district, Merthyr Tydfil's main postcode district: a typical £159,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Merthyr Tydfil: 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 Merthyr Tydfil?

22 of the 1,108 postcodes now in use in Merthyr Tydfil came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 0 of the 398 homes sold in Merthyr Tydfil were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the CF47 district, 8%.

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 Merthyr Tydfil?

Ofcom reports on 1,093 of the 1,108 postcodes in Merthyr Tydfil. At 816 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 Merthyr Tydfil?

The open schools at the postcodes in Merthyr Tydfil (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 Merthyr Tydfil?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Merthyr Tydfil is Merthyr Tydfil Rail Station, 950 m away in a straight line.

• Merthyr Tydfil Rail Station Railway station 950 mWalk
• Pentre-Bach Rail Station Railway station 3.3 kmCycle
• Troed-y-Rhiw Rail Station Railway station 5.0 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 Merthyr Tydfil?

The GP practices at the postcodes in Merthyr Tydfil, the first 5 by distance from its middle. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.

• Pontcae Medical Practice Phone 01685 384369 850 mWalk
• Practice 1 Phone 01685 353780 1.1 kmWalk
• Practice 2 Phone 01685 351492 1.1 kmWalk
• Practice 3 Keir Hardie He Phone 01685 351493 1.1 kmWalk
• Morlais Medical Practice Phone 01685 385339 1.7 kmCycle

Source: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026.

Is Merthyr Tydfil safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 3,727 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Merthyr Tydfil 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 96, burglary 64, robbery 30, possession of weapons 26, theft from the person 19, bicycle theft 5.

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 Merthyr Tydfil?

Council

Merthyr Tydfil

Parliamentary constituency

Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare

Police force area

South Wales

Country

Wales

MP

Gerald Jones (Labour)

All 1,108 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.