Port Talbot

What is it like to live in Port Talbot?

Homes sold for a typical £157,000 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 664 of the 758 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. It has 8 primary schools, 1 secondary school and 2 all-through schools at its postcodes within 12 km of its centre. 4 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Port Talbot Parkway, 900 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 Port Talbot?

Homes in Port Talbot sold for a typical £157,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 279 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £148,500 from 370 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.

• Detached £269,500 24 sales
• Semi-detached £170,000 113 sales
• Terraced £139,995 133 sales
• Flat or maisonette £80,000 9 sales

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

Across the whole SA12 district, Port Talbot's main postcode district: a typical £167,500.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Port Talbot: 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 Port Talbot?

10 of the 777 postcodes now in use in Port Talbot came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 3 of the 370 homes sold in Port Talbot were newly built (Under 1%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the SA12 district, 10%.

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 Port Talbot?

Ofcom reports on 758 of the 777 postcodes in Port Talbot. At 664 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 Port Talbot?

The open schools at the postcodes in Port Talbot (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 Port Talbot?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Port Talbot is Port Talbot Parkway Rail Station, 900 m away in a straight line.

• Port Talbot Parkway Rail Station Railway station 900 mWalk
• Baglan Rail Station Railway station 2.7 kmCycle
• Briton Ferry Rail Station Railway station 5.2 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 Port Talbot?

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

• Fairfield Medical Centre Phone 01639 500590 1.7 kmCycle
• Kings Surgery Phone 01639 821489 1.7 kmCycle
• Riverside Surgery Phone 01639 813868 1.7 kmCycle
• Mount Surgery Phone 01639 502792 2.3 kmCycle

Source: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026.

Is Port Talbot safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 2,374 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Port Talbot 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 46, other crime 39, robbery 19, bicycle theft 18, possession of weapons 13, theft from the person 10.

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 Port Talbot?

Council

Neath Port Talbot

Parliamentary constituency

Aberafan Maesteg

Police force area

South Wales

Country

Wales

MP

Stephen Kinnock (Labour)

All 777 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.