Risca

What is it like to live in Risca?

Homes sold for a typical £175,000 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 274 of the 326 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. It has 3 primary schools and 1 secondary school at its postcodes. 2 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Risca & Pontymister, 1.1 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 Risca?

Homes in Risca sold for a typical £175,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 157 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £180,000 from 207 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.

• Detached £285,000 13 sales
• Semi-detached £212,500 59 sales
• Terraced £165,000 82 sales
• Flat or maisonette 3 sales, too few to price

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

Across the whole NP11 district, Risca's main postcode district: a typical £173,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Risca: 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 Risca?

9 of the 330 postcodes now in use in Risca came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 0 of the 207 homes sold in Risca were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the NP11 district, Under 1%.

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 Risca?

Ofcom reports on 326 of the 330 postcodes in Risca. At 274 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 Risca?

The open schools at the postcodes in Risca. 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 Risca?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Risca is Risca & Pontymister Rail Station, 1.1 km away in a straight line.

• Risca & Pontymister Rail Station Railway station 1.1 kmWalk
• Crosskeys Rail Station Railway station 1.8 kmCycle
• Rogerstone Rail Station Railway station 3.2 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 Risca?

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

• Risca Surgery Phone 01633 613131 400 mWalk
• Wellspring Medical Centre Phone 01633 612438 850 mWalk

Source: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026.

Is Risca safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 1,005 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Risca 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 26, shoplifting 24, possession of weapons 13, robbery 9, bicycle theft 4, theft from the person 3.

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 Risca?

Council

Caerphilly

Parliamentary constituencies

Newport West and Islwyn (305) and Caerphilly (25)

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.