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On Swansea Road, in Pontardawe
What it's like at SA8 4AL: every home that has sold on Swansea Road since 1995 and who owns them, what's happening down the road, crime on the street, a day in the life, history on the doorstep and what's changing nearby. Moving, buying, selling, improving or investing? Pick a lens above for what matters to you.
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Compared with all 7,264 neighbourhoods in England and Wales (council well-being: all councils). Open a tab below for the detail.
ORR, DfE, police.uk, OS Terrain 50 and Open Greenspace, Forestry Commission, Defra noise maps (England), Xoserve. Every distance: Moving; radon, ground and flood checks: Buying.
3 homes on the street extended (energy certificates). 5 homes have a new energy certificate in the last 6 months and no sale since: often a sign of a sale or let coming.
Sales and extensions on Swansea Road; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 172 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 24, Swansea RoadDetached | Oct 2018 | £200,000 | 119 m² | £1,681/m² | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25, Swansea RoadDetached | Sept 2006 | £179,950 | – | – | 2 |
| 26, Swansea RoadSemi-detached | Nov 1996 | £25,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 28, Swansea RoadSemi-detached | Aug 2016 | £145,000 | 117 m² | £1,239/m² | 2 |
| 29, Swansea RoadSemi-detached | Aug 2023 | £160,000 | 97 m² | £1,649/m² | 1 |
| 30, Swansea RoadSemi-detached | Nov 2023 | £192,500 | 108 m² | £1,782/m² | 1 |
| 31, Swansea RoadSemi-detached | Jun 2005 | £105,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 32, Swansea RoadSemi-detached | Aug 2001 | £40,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 33, Swansea RoadSemi-detached | Apr 2015 | £82,500 | 120 m² | £688/m² | 3 |
| 35, Swansea RoadSemi-detached | Jul 2002 | £58,500 | – | – | 2 |
| 37, Swansea RoadSemi-detached | Jan 2014 | £65,000 | 102 m² | £637/m² | 1 |
| 38, Swansea RoadSemi-detached | Nov 2010 | £130,000 | 106 m² | £1,226/m² | 3 |
| 39, Swansea RoadSemi-detached | Dec 2011 | £49,000 | 69 m² | £710/m² | 1 |
| 41, Swansea RoadSemi-detached | Nov 1999 | £22,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 43, Swansea RoadDetached | Apr 2025 | £190,000 | 82 m² | £2,317/m² | 2 |
| 44, Swansea RoadDetached | Mar 2002 | £58,500 | 145 m² | £403/m² | 2 |
| 47, Swansea RoadSemi-detached | Sept 2025 | £166,000 | 88 m² | £1,886/m² | 4 |
| 48, Swansea RoadDetached | Mar 2022 | £250,000 | 107 m² | £2,336/m² | 1 |
| 49, Swansea RoadSemi-detached | Dec 2014 | £117,000 | 106 m² | £1,104/m² | 1 |
| 50, Swansea RoadSemi-detached | Oct 2021 | £145,000 | 105 m² | £1,381/m² | 1 |
| 51, Swansea RoadDetached | Oct 2018 | £172,000 | 124 m² | £1,387/m² | 1 |
| 54, Swansea RoadSemi-detached | Dec 2023 | £220,000 | 93 m² | £2,366/m² | 3 |
| 55, Swansea RoadDetached | Jul 2026 | £332,500 | 154 m² | £2,159/m² | 2 |
| 58, Swansea RoadDetached | Feb 2007 | £149,950 | 161 m² | £931/m² | 1 |
| 59, Swansea RoadDetached | Mar 2025 | £345,000 | 121 m² | £2,851/m² | 2 |
| 63, Swansea RoadSemi-detached | May 2014 | £94,000 | 96 m² | £979/m² | 3 |
| 65, Swansea RoadSemi-detached | Aug 2009 | £110,000 | – | – | 4 |
| 67, Swansea RoadSemi-detached | Aug 2017 | £94,000 | 70 m² | £1,343/m² | 4 |
| 68, Swansea RoadDetached | Apr 2024 | £145,000 | 84 m² | £1,726/m² | 1 |
| 69, Swansea RoadSemi-detached | Aug 2005 | £92,000 | 101 m² | £911/m² | 4 |
| 71, Swansea RoadDetached | Aug 2021 | £168,250 | 157 m² | £1,072/m² | 1 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Skewen, a drive away (5.9 km), with 44k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Swansea.
The nearest bus stop is Craig Road, 50 m away, with fewer than one bus an hour on weekdays (route 905); 1 departures an hour from the 5 stops within a 5-minute walk.
The nearest primary school is YGG Trebannws, about a 5-minute walk (500 m).
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Cwmtawe Community School, 750 m away.
The nearest supermarket is Lidl Supermarkets, 650 m away, with Fresh2Lips Catering closer still (500 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Pontardawe Primary Care Centre (1.0 km), with Pontardawe Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (850 m).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 13 restaurants and cafés, 14 pubs and bars.
Rosselli's Coffee House is the closest café or restaurant (800 m), and Trebanos Rugby the nearest pub (700 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 61 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
It's a mix of homes: 8% flats and 37% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1945-1954.
The nearest park is Lon Tanyrallt Park, 500 m away; for exercise, Pontardawe Leisure Centre (300 m).
The air is clean: background nitrogen dioxide is 4.8 µg/m³, among the lowest in the country.
For holidays, Cardiff is 50 km away, and Bristol, with far more destinations, 87 km.
Neighbours tend to stay put: 40% of households own their home outright.
Written from the figures on this page: Census 2021, DfT journey times (2019), NaPTAN/ORR, Ofsted, CQC, FSA, police.uk and planning registers. Figures describe the neighbourhood around the street.
7 places on this map are within about a 10-minute walk.
Walking times are estimates from straight-line distance. Food businesses from the FSA food hygiene register; schools from the DfE register; nurseries from Ofsted's childcare register; care homes from the Care Quality Commission; pools, sports halls, tennis and golf from Sport England Active Places (contains data © Sport England); everything else © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Map © OpenFreeMap, OpenMapTiles, OpenStreetMap contributors.
Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe constituency: David Chadwick MP (Liberal Democrat), since July 2024. 2024 general election: LD gain from Con, majority 1,472 (3.2%), turnout 64%. Vote shares: Liberal Democrat 30%, Conservative 26%, Labour 21%, Reform UK 14%.
3 new homes, planning permissions and school changes on record within 2 km, plus energy projects, road works, storm overflows and major infrastructure. Everything changing near SA8 4AL →
On this street: 0 of 119 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 2 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 1.3% | 1.4% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 1.0% | 0.4% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 93.6% | 93.3% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 2.8% | 3.5% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 1.5% | 1.7% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.0% | 0.0% | 2.1% |
From each home's latest energy certificate, so panels or heat pumps fitted since aren't counted and the shares are lower than today's real figures. Compare areas in the data explorer.
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.
Tap a type to see what it covers and how it has changed in Neath Port Talbot since 2011.
police.uk, 2025-09 to 2026-08. Crimes are mapped to the nearest of a set of anonymised points and labelled with that point's street, so busy roads and junctions collect crimes from nearby; the street has about 172 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.