Ynysybwl

What is it like to live in Ynysybwl?

Homes sold for a typical £160,000 in the 12 months to September 2026. Ofcom reports on 84 postcodes here; at none of them can every home and business get gigabit broadband. It has 1 primary school at its postcodes. One GP practice is at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Abercynon, 2.0 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 Ynysybwl?

Homes in Ynysybwl sold for a typical £160,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 43 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £130,000 from 52 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.

• Detached 2 sales, too few to price
• Semi-detached £204,000 14 sales
• Terraced £147,000 27 sales

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

Across the whole CF37 district, Ynysybwl's main postcode district: a typical £160,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Ynysybwl: 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 Ynysybwl?

None of the 84 postcodes now in use in Ynysybwl came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 0 of the 52 homes sold in Ynysybwl were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the CF37 district, 0%.

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 Ynysybwl?

Ofcom reports on 84 of the 84 postcodes in Ynysybwl. At none 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 Ynysybwl?

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

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Ynysybwl is Abercynon Rail Station, 2.0 km away in a straight line.

• Abercynon Rail Station Railway station 2.0 kmCycle
• Trehafod Rail Station Railway station 3.3 kmCycle
• Quakers Yard Rail Station Railway station 3.6 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 Ynysybwl?

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

• Ynysybwl Surgery Phone 01443 790360 350 mWalk

Source: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026.

Is Ynysybwl safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 248 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Ynysybwl 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 theft 6, shoplifting 4, possession of weapons 3, theft from the person 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 Ynysybwl?

Council

Rhondda Cynon Taf

Parliamentary constituency

Pontypridd

Police force area

South Wales

Country

Wales

MP

Alex Davies-Jones (Labour)

All 84 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.