Pontllanfraith

What is it like to live in Pontllanfraith?

Homes sold for a typical £197,500 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 202 of the 230 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. It has 4 primary schools at its postcodes. 2 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Hengoed, 2.4 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 Pontllanfraith?

Homes in Pontllanfraith sold for a typical £197,500 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 88 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £200,000 from 125 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.

• Detached £323,750 20 sales
• Semi-detached £197,500 44 sales
• Terraced £151,500 24 sales

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

Across the whole NP12 district, Pontllanfraith's main postcode district: a typical £210,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Pontllanfraith: 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 Pontllanfraith?

10 of the 231 postcodes now in use in Pontllanfraith came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 10 of the 125 homes sold in Pontllanfraith were newly built (8%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the NP12 district, 15%.

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 Pontllanfraith?

Ofcom reports on 230 of the 231 postcodes in Pontllanfraith. At 202 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 Pontllanfraith?

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

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Pontllanfraith is Hengoed Rail Station, 2.4 km away in a straight line.

• Hengoed Rail Station Railway station 2.4 kmCycle
• Pengam Rail Station Railway station 3.3 kmCycle
• Newbridge Rail Station Railway station 3.5 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 Pontllanfraith?

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

• Blackwood Medical Group Phone 01495 227156 250 mWalk
• Pontllanfraith Health Centre Phone 01495 227131 250 mWalk

Source: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026.

Is Pontllanfraith safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 1,589 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Pontllanfraith 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 39, other crime 29, possession of weapons 15, robbery 5, theft from the person 1, bicycle theft 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 Pontllanfraith?

Council

Caerphilly

Parliamentary constituencies

Caerphilly (208) and Newport West and Islwyn (23)

Police force area

Gwent

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.