Ystalyfera

What is it like to live in Ystalyfera?

Homes sold for a typical £161,250 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 156 of the 230 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. It has 3 primary schools, 1 secondary school and 1 all-through school at its postcodes. One GP practice is at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Neath, 11.5 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 Ystalyfera?

Homes in Ystalyfera sold for a typical £161,250 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 76 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £162,000 from 95 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.

• Detached £280,000 29 sales
• Semi-detached £130,000 23 sales
• Terraced £136,500 24 sales

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

Across the whole SA9 district, Ystalyfera's main postcode district: a typical £169,450.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Ystalyfera: 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 Ystalyfera?

1 of the 231 postcodes now in use in Ystalyfera came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 0 of the 95 homes sold in Ystalyfera were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the SA9 district, 17%.

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 Ystalyfera?

Ofcom reports on 230 of the 231 postcodes in Ystalyfera. At 156 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 Ystalyfera?

The open schools at the postcodes in Ystalyfera. 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 Ystalyfera?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Ystalyfera is Neath Rail Station, 11.5 km away in a straight line.

• Neath Rail Station Railway station 11.5 kmDrive
• Skewen Rail Station Railway station 12.3 kmDrive
• Llansamlet Rail Station Railway station 13.4 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 Ystalyfera?

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

• Pengorof Surgery Phone 01639 843221 1.8 kmCycle

Source: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026.

Is Ystalyfera safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 446 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Ystalyfera 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 7, vehicle crime 5, possession of weapons 4, theft from the person 2, robbery 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 Ystalyfera?

Councils

Neath Port Talbot (127) and Powys (104)

Parliamentary constituency

Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe

Police force areas

South Wales (127) and Dyfed-Powys (104)

Country

Wales

MP

David Chadwick (Liberal Democrat)

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?

Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; UK Parliament, read 14 October 2026.