What's the median rent in Blaenau Gwent 008D?

The median monthly rent across Blaenau Gwent 008D is £668.

How safe is Blaenau Gwent 008D?

Blaenau Gwent 008D has a safety score of 55/100 out of 100, where higher is safer.

How well-connected is Blaenau Gwent 008D?

Transport score: 33/100. Combines public transit access and walkability.

Which neighbourhood is Blaenau Gwent 008D part of?

Blaenau Gwent 008D sits inside the Abertillery North & Cwmtillery neighbourhood, in Blaenau Gwent, Wales.

Sub-area · Abertillery North & Cwmtillery · Blaenau Gwent · Wales

Living in Blaenau Gwent 008D

Part of Abertillery North & Cwmtillery · 1,506 residents

Blaenau Gwent 008D is a sub-area in Abertillery North & Cwmtillery, Blaenau Gwent that skews under 18 and tenure-mixed. Median rent sits at £668 a month, up 7.3% on the year. Safety ranks in the top half of UK sub-areas (39th percentile nationally). Gigabit broadband coverage is sparse at 6% of premises — check before signing.

Median rent

£668+7.3%

vs last year

ONS Rent Index (PIPR) · Mar 2026

Liveability

76/100

Composite score

Safety

55/100

Higher is safer

Police.uk crime data · Feb 2026

Transport

33/100

Transit + walk

Schools

0/100

Ofsted-weighted

Broadband

gigabit-ready

Ofcom Connected Nations 2025 · 2025

Who lives here

Age structure, tenure mix and dwelling type from Census 2021.

Age structure

Under 1823%

18–3422%

35–4919%

50–6419%

65+18%

Population1,506

Tenure & housing type

Owner-occupied—

Private rent—

Social rent—

Flats—

Terraced—

Semi-detached—

Detached—

Detailed community breakdownHouseholds · ethnicity · religion · country of birth · health · qualifications

Household composition

One person32%Couple with children18%Lone parent14%Other4%

Ethnic mix

Diversity index 3.00

White99%Asian1%Black0%Mixed1%

Religion (Census 2021, voluntary question)

Christian28%Muslim0%No religion65%Other1%

Country of birth

Born in UK98%

Born outside UK2%

General health (self-reported)

Good71%Fair18%Bad11%

Disability prevalence28%

Education attainment (residents 16+)

Degree or above19%

Apprenticeship6%

No qualifications35%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (TS001 / TS006 / TS044).

Cost

Rent and council tax data for Blaenau Gwent 008D below.

Affordability score

93/100· 85th percentile nationally

All-in monthly

—

Rent + council tax + utility estimate

Median rent (any size)£668/mo+7.3%

2-bed median rent£593/mo

Council tax (estimated)—

Sale price (median)£172,500+5.0%

Price-to-earnings5.6×

Rent / take-home26%

EPC median bandD

Yield (gross BTL)4.1%

Detailed cost breakdownRent by bedroom & property type · sale prices · affordability

Rent by bedroom count

median monthly

1 bed£494/mo

2 bed£593/mo+7.9%

3 bed£675/mo

4 bed£891/mo

Rent by property type

median monthly

Detached£903/mo

Semi-detached£705/mo

Terraced£633/mo

Flat£531/mo

Sale price by property type

HPI average price

All properties (HPI avg)£137,891+5.0%

Detached£225,790

Semi-detached£151,288

Terraced£126,239

Flat£79,275+1.2%

Sales (Land Registry, lifetime)9

Lower quartile sale£145,000

Upper quartile sale£215,000

Affordability & running costs

Years to save 10% deposit2.8 yr

Mortgage (25y, 5%)£908/mo

Price / earnings (HPI vs ASHE)4.5×

Council tax — Band D billing—

Council tax — Band D incl. precepts—

Modal council tax bandA

Fuel poverty (LILEE)—

EPC homes rated A/B0%

Source: Rent: ONS PIPR, May 2026. Council tax: VOA + MHCLG. Sale prices: HM Land Registry.

Property

EPC band distribution, council tax band mix and recent supply per 1,000 residents.

EPC median

D band

Modal council tax bandA

Completions / 1,000—

Detailed housing breakdownCouncil tax bands · EPC stock · supply pipeline

Council tax band distribution

690 dwellings · VOA CTSOP

Band A70%Band B26%Band C1%Band D1%Band E1%

Modal bandA

Total dwellings690

Band D — billing only—

Band D — incl. all precepts—

Estimated for this local area's mix—

EPC stock

Median EPC bandD

% rated A or B0%

EPC certificates lodged36

Housing supply pipeline

MHCLG, FY 2024-25, council-area level fanned to local area

Completions (annual)—

Starts (annual)—

Completions / 1,000 households—

Pipeline ratio (starts / completions)—

Source: EPC: MHCLG bulk download. Council tax bands: VOA CTSOP 1.1.

Safety

How crime here compares to the England + Wales average. The raw rate per 1,000 residents per year is shown alongside for reference.

How crime is measured

What's counted. Incidents recorded by territorial police forces and published to data.police.uk each month. Rates use the latest 12 months of data divided by the area's mid-2024 ONS resident population — so the figure is reported incidents per 1,000 residents per year.

Anti-social behaviour is the largest category in most areas and is worth reading carefully — it's a community-reports bucket (noise, rowdiness, nuisance), not "crime" in the legal sense. ASB and shoplifting are weighted lower than violent offences in the safety score on each page.

Caveats. The denominator is residents, so workday and tourist destinations can look worse than they feel for someone living there. Greater Manchester forces stopped publishing to data.police.uk in 2020, so figures for those areas are intentionally blank rather than misleadingly low.

Safety score

55/100· 39th percentile nationally

Total / 1k / yr85.539th percentile nationally

Violent / 1k / yr35.7

Burglary / 1k / yr2.0

ASB / 1k / yr9.4

All crime categories14 categories ranked by local rate

Incidents per 1,000 residents per year

Sorted high → low. Hover any category for what it covers.

Violent & sexual offences

35.7

Public order

12.1

Criminal damage & arson

12.1

Anti-social behaviour

9.4

Other theft

4.7

Vehicle crime

3.4

Other crime

3.4

Burglary

2.0

Drugs

2.0

Possession of weapons

0.7

Personal safety (composite)

Personal-safety index per 1k36.3

IMD crime sub-domain (lower = safer)—

Source: Crime: data.police.uk monthly counts, normalised by population. National avg = England + Wales population-weighted mean.

Transport

Distance to the nearest rail station, plus modelled commute time to a major employment centre.

Transport score

33/100· 24th percentile nationally

Nearest rail3.7 km (Ebbw Vale Parkway)

Nearest tube/metro—

PT to 5,000+ jobs hub—

Drive to 5,000+ jobs—

Detailed transport breakdownCity commutes · job accessibility · how residents travel to work

Commute time to major cities

public transport, off-peak typical

Cardiff

96 min

Bristol

111 min

London

175 min

Birmingham

186 min

Manchester

223 min

Sheffield

264 min

Liverpool

302 min

Leeds

324 min

Glasgow

444 min

Edinburgh

449 min

Job accessibility from this area

Minutes to reach N jobs by car / public transport

Drive — 100 jobs reachable—

PT — 100 jobs reachable—

Drive — 500 jobs reachable—

PT — 500 jobs reachable—

Drive — 5,000 jobs reachable—

PT — 5,000 jobs reachable—

How residents travel to work

Census 2021 mode share

Car73%Public4%Active10%WFH12%

Source: Rail: National Rail / TfL ATCO. Commute: DfT Journey Time Statistics.

Schools

Distribution of Ofsted ratings amongst schools serving this area.

School score

0/100

Outstanding—

Good—

Schools in catchment—

Nearest outstanding35.5 km

Detailed school breakdownFull Ofsted distribution · distances · catchment counts

Ofsted rating distribution

schools whose postcode falls in this local area

Outstanding (count)—

Good (count)—

Requires improvement (count)—

Inadequate (count)—

Schools within walking distance

Schools within 2 km1

Good or outstanding within 2 km0

% within 2 km that are good/outstanding0%

Nearest school26.4 km

Nearest good or outstanding34.7 km

Nearest outstanding35.5 km

Source: Ofsted school inspection ratings, latest inspection per school.

Jobs

Local jobs density and pay levels. Workplace pay reflects what jobs in this area pay; residence pay reflects what residents earn.

Jobs per resident0.27

Median salary£30,734/yr

Workplace salary£26,241/yr

Claimant count4.0%-0.1pp

Detailed jobs & earnings breakdownSector mix · pay percentiles · economic activity · occupations · qualifications

Jobs by sector

% of local jobs (BRES — figure is the same across all neighbourhoods in this council area)

Manufacturing

23.4%

Retail & hospitality

19.4%

Health & social care

15.2%

Education

10.7%

Construction

3.7%

Professional & business svcs

2.5%

Finance & insurance

1.6%

Tech & ICT

0.6%

Total jobs (latest)19,000

Jobs growth — 5 year-13.6%

Jobs growth — year on year-13.6%

Net commute flow—

Pay percentiles — what residents earn

ASHE residence analysis, gross earnings

Lower quartile (annual)£21,722/yr

Median (annual)£30,734/yr

Mean (annual)£31,736/yr

Upper quartile (annual)£41,743/yr

Median weekly£626/wk

Median hourly£16.80/hr

Pay percentiles — what local jobs pay

ASHE workplace analysis

Lower quartile (annual)—

Median (annual)£26,241/yr

Mean (annual)£29,353/yr

Upper quartile (annual)£39,205/yr

Median weekly£596/wk

Median hourly£16.50/hr

Economic activity (Census 2021)

16+ residents — sums to 100%

Census 2021 TS066: all residents aged 16+ split into three non-overlapping groups. Inactive covers students, retirees, full-time carers and the long-term sick — together these bars always sum to 100%. The ILO unemployment rate above strips out inactive residents, giving a figure comparable to the national headline rate.

Working-age population886

DWP claimants (people)1,665

DWP claimant rate4.0%

Claimant YoY change-0.1pp

DWP claimant count tracks 16-64 residents on Universal Credit while seeking work, or Jobseeker's Allowance. It's narrower than Census "unemployed" (which includes anyone actively job-seeking, claiming or not) but updates monthly so it's the most current local indicator.

Occupation mix

working residents

Qualifications

Census 2021, residents 16+

Degree or above19%

Apprenticeship6%

No qualifications35%

Source: ONS Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings + Business Register and Employment Survey + DWP claimant count.

Connectivity

Share of premises with each broadband tier available, latest Ofcom Connected Nations data.

Gigabit availability

Ultrafast (≥100 Mbit/s)6%

Superfast (≥30 Mbit/s)100%

Below USO (<10 Mbit/s)0.0%

Sub-2 Mbit/s0.0%

Broadband + mobile coverage detailGranular speed tiers · 4G / 5G indoor & outdoor

Fixed-line broadband — coverage by tier

Gigabit-capable6%

≥300 Mbit/s available6%

Ultrafast (≥100 Mbit/s)6%

Superfast (≥30 Mbit/s)100%

Below USO (<10 Mbit/s)0.0%

Sub-2 Mbit/s premises0.0%

Mobile coverage

Ofcom Connected Nations 2025

4G indoor — any operator100%

4G indoor — all operators90%

5G outdoor — any operator100%

Voice indoor — any operator100%

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations 2025, postcode-level coverage aggregated to local area.

Environment

Air quality (annual mean concentrations), flood risk, and walkable greenspace.

PM2.5 annual mean5.1 µg/m³

NO₂ annual mean4.5 µg/m³

Flood risk zone0

Greenspace within 300m86%

Parks within 1km5.4

Detailed environment breakdownGreenspace access · AHAH composite indices

Greenspace access (ONS, April 2020)

Distance to nearest greenspace196 m

Greenspaces within 1 km5.4

Combined greenspace area21.3 ha

Postcodes within 300 m of a park86%

AHAH — Access to Healthy Assets & Hazards

CDRC national percentile, higher = healthier neighbourhood

Overall AHAH

33 pct

Health services

89 pct

Green & blue space

10 pct

Air quality

18 pct

Retail hazards

38 pct

Source: Air: Defra UK-AIR PCM Background. Flood: Environment Agency. Greenspace: ONS access study (April 2020).

Healthcare

Walking distance to the nearest GP, hospital and dentist.

Nearest GP1.5 km

Nearest hospital43.4 km

Nearest dentist30.9 km

Fuel poverty—

Detailed healthcare breakdownGP capacity · counts within walking distance · dental supply

GP supply

GP practices within 1 km0

GP practices within 3 km4

Patients per local GP—

Catchment concentration (HHI)—

Dental & hospital supply

Dentists within 3 km0

Dental UDA / 1k pop (ICB level)1375

Hospitals within 5 km0

Nearest urgent care39.8 km

Population health context

Self-reported good health71%

Self-reported bad health11%

Disability prevalence28%

IMD health sub-domain—

Source: NHS ODS / CQC Locations + nearest-feature distance from local area centroid.

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What's it like to rent in Blaenau Gwent 008D?

Blaenau Gwent 008D sits inside Abertillery North & Cwmtillery, part of the wider Blaenau Gwent council area in Wales. Editorial copy will replace this scaffold once the team has reviewed the area in person — until then the data tabs above are the authoritative reference.

Strengths and trade-offs

Read the dimensional ranks above for the canonical view of where this sub-area excels and where it lags. Any qualitative spin should follow from those numbers.

Who is Blaenau Gwent 008D for?

Renters most likely to thrive here are those whose priorities align with the area's strongest scores. The demographics tab gives the clearest read — age profile, tenure mix and household composition are usually the best predictor of who'll feel at home on which streets.

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Frequently asked

What's the median rent in Blaenau Gwent 008D?: The median monthly rent across Blaenau Gwent 008D is £668.
How safe is Blaenau Gwent 008D?: Blaenau Gwent 008D has a safety score of 55/100 out of 100, where higher is safer.
How well-connected is Blaenau Gwent 008D?: Transport score: 33/100. Combines public transit access and walkability.
Which neighbourhood is Blaenau Gwent 008D part of?: Blaenau Gwent 008D sits inside the Abertillery North & Cwmtillery neighbourhood, in Blaenau Gwent, Wales.

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