Y Bala

What is it like to live in Y Bala?

Homes sold for a typical £162,500 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 46 of the 72 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. It has 1 all-through school at its postcodes. One GP practice is at its postcodes.

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. Each figure is from a section of this page, which gives its date.

What do homes cost in Y Bala?

Homes in Y Bala sold for a typical £162,500 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 12 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £153,500 from 19 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 3 sales, too few to price
• Semi-detached 1 sale, too few to price
• Terraced £140,000 8 sales

Across the whole LL23 district, Y Bala's main postcode district: a typical £177,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Y Bala: 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 Y Bala?

1 of the 72 postcodes now in use in Y Bala came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 0 of the 19 homes sold in Y Bala were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the LL23 district, 0%.

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 Y Bala?

Ofcom reports on 72 of the 72 postcodes in Y Bala. At 46 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 Y Bala?

The open schools at the postcodes in Y Bala. 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.

Which GP surgeries are in Y Bala?

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

• Meddygfa Phone 01678 520308 200 mWalk

Straight-line distances from the centre point, not routes. Walk: under 1.2 km. Cycle: 1.2 to 5 km. Drive: further.

Source: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026.

Is Y Bala safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 158 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Y Bala 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: possession of weapons 3, drugs 2, vehicle crime 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 Y Bala?

Council

Gwynedd

Parliamentary constituency

Dwyfor Meirionnydd

Police force area

North Wales

Country

Wales

MP

Liz Saville Roberts (Plaid Cymru)

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.