Pen-pedair-heol

What is it like to live in Pen-pedair-heol?

Homes sold for a typical £195,000 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 21 of the 72 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 Meddygfa Gelligaer Surgery, 750 metres from the middle. The nearest railway station is Pengam, 850 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.

We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge.

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 Pen-pedair-heol?

Homes in Pen-pedair-heol sold for a typical £195,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 43 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £214,500 from 50 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.

• Detached £295,000 10 sales
• Semi-detached £197,500 18 sales
• Terraced £167,000 15 sales

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

Across the whole CF82 district, Pen-pedair-heol's main postcode district: a typical £200,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Pen-pedair-heol: 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 Pen-pedair-heol?

None of the 72 postcodes now in use in Pen-pedair-heol came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 0 of the 50 homes sold in Pen-pedair-heol were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the CF82 district, 0%.

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 Pen-pedair-heol?

Ofcom reports on 72 of the 72 postcodes in Pen-pedair-heol. At 21 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 Pen-pedair-heol?

The primary schools are at the postcodes in Pen-pedair-heol. 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 Pen-pedair-heol?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Pen-pedair-heol is Pengam Rail Station, 850 m away in a straight line.

• Pengam Rail Station Railway station 850 mWalk
• Gilfach Fargoed Rail Station Railway station 2.1 kmCycle
• Hengoed Rail Station Railway station 2.6 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 Pen-pedair-heol?

There is no GP practice at the postcodes in Pen-pedair-heol. 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.

• Meddygfa Gelligaer Surgery Phone 01443 875333 750 mWalk
• Pengam Health Centre Phone 01443 834672 1.2 kmWalk
• Bryntirion Surgery Phone 01443 830796 2.3 kmCycle

Source: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026.

Is Pen-pedair-heol safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 1,022 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Pen-pedair-heol 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 24, drugs 19, possession of weapons 11, robbery 4, theft from the person 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 Pen-pedair-heol?

Council

Caerphilly

Parliamentary constituency

Caerphilly

Police force area

Gwent

Country

Wales

MP

Chris Evans (Labour (Co-op))

All 72 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.