Pentyrch

What is it like to live in Pentyrch?

Homes sold for a typical £420,000 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 35 of the 52 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 The Medical Centre, 2.6 km from the middle. The nearest railway station is Taffs Well, 2.7 km 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 Pentyrch?

Homes in Pentyrch sold for a typical £420,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 19 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £435,000 from 21 sales. With fewer than 30 sales a year, a change can come from which homes happened to sell, so we do not give one.

• Detached £592,500 11 sales
• Semi-detached 4 sales, too few to price
• Terraced 2 sales, too few to price
• Flat or maisonette 2 sales, too few to price

Across the whole CF15 district, Pentyrch's main postcode district: a typical £368,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Pentyrch: 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 Pentyrch?

None of the 52 postcodes now in use in Pentyrch came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 0 of the 21 homes sold in Pentyrch were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the CF15 district, 9%.

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 Pentyrch?

Ofcom reports on 52 of the 52 postcodes in Pentyrch. At 35 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 Pentyrch?

The primary schools are at the postcodes in Pentyrch. 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 Pentyrch?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Pentyrch is Taffs Well Rail Station, 2.7 km away in a straight line.

• Taffs Well Rail Station Railway station 2.7 kmCycle
• Radyr Rail Station Railway station 3.7 kmCycle
• Trefforest Estate Rail Station Railway station 4.3 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 Pentyrch?

There is no GP practice at the postcodes in Pentyrch. 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.

• The Medical Centre Phone 029 2082 0320 2.6 kmCycle
• Radyr Medical Centre Phone 029 2084 2767 3.6 kmCycle
• Parc Canol Surgery Phone 01443 203414 4.4 kmCycle

Source: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026.

Is Pentyrch safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 89 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Pentyrch 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 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 Pentyrch?

Council

Cardiff

Parliamentary constituency

Cardiff West

Police force area

South Wales

Country

Wales

MP

Mr Alex Barros-Curtis (Labour)

All 52 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.