Neighbourhoods in Bridgend
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19 neighbourhoods · 91 sub-areas
Rent, scores and YoY change at a glance.
| Blaengarw, Pontycymer & Bettws | £551 | +7.9% | 92 | 79 |
| Caerau | £552 | +7.9% | 82 | 35 |
| Nant-y-moel, Ogmore Vale & Blackmill | £571 | +7.9% | 79 | 72 |
| Maesteg East | £581 | +7.9% | 85 | 43 |
| Maesteg West, Garth & Llangynwyd | £631 | +7.9% | 98 | 84 |
| Pyle, Kenfig Hill & Cefncribwr | £653 | +7.9% | 84 | 71 |
| Cornelly | £689 | +7.9% | 79 | 57 |
| Ynysawdre & Aberkenfig | £703 | +7.9% | 79 | 65 |
| Sarn, Bryn-coch & Bryncethin | £719 | +7.9% | 85 | 46 |
| Central Bridgend | £722 | +7.9% | 76 | 12 |
| Cefn-glas & Bryntirion | £729 | +7.9% | 91 | 81 |
| Brackla West | £730 | +7.9% | 76 | 63 |
| Pen-prysg, Hendre & Felindre | £746 | +7.9% | 81 | 84 |
| Brackla East & Coychurch Lower | £763 | +7.9% | 72 | 70 |
| Pen-dre, Litchard & Coity | £802 | +7.9% | 69 | 73 |
| Pen-y-fai, Laleston & Merthyr Mawr | £831 | +7.9% | 44 | 81 |
| Broadlands | £879 | +7.9% | 70 | 94 |
| Porthcawl East | £893 | +7.9% | 21 | 42 |
| Porthcawl West | £994 | +7.9% | 20 | 97 |
Sources: ONS, MHCLG, DfT, DESNZ, Defra, Police.uk, Ofsted, Ofcom, HM Land Registry. Some columns (salary, council tax, HPI) are published at council-area level.
Where to look in Bridgend
Three short answers to "where should I focus?" in Bridgend. Each list is filtered from the same neighbourhood data above — the basis of each shortlist is stated above the list so you know what's been weighted.
Lowest estimated monthly rent. Rent is the LAD-published ONS PIPR median, scaled per neighbourhood by local sale prices (Land Registry).
Highest composite liveability — combines safety, schools, transport access and rental affordability into one 0–100 score (higher = more liveable).
Highest liveability per pound of rent — desirable areas where rent stays close to or below the Bridgend median.
Cost of living
Median rent and council tax across Bridgend.
Rent & price breakdownBy bedroom count · property type · affordability
Rent: ONS PIPR (council area). Council tax: VOA + MHCLG. Sale prices: HM Land Registry.
Safety in Bridgend
Crime in Bridgend runs at 38% below the national average. Above median (#151 of 318 cities) The supporting per-1,000-residents-per-year rate is 62.3, averaged across the council area's neighbourhoods.
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.
Crime detailTop crime types · safest neighbourhoods in this council area
Source: data.police.uk — incident counts adjusted for population, then averaged across the council area's neighbourhoods. National average = England + Wales population-weighted mean.
Schools in Bridgend
Distribution of Ofsted ratings amongst schools serving this council area.
School breakdownOfsted distribution · best neighbourhoods for schools
Ofsted school inspection ratings, latest inspection per school.
Transport in Bridgend
Modelled door-to-door commute from this council area to nearby employment hubs. Closest first.
Transport detailAll city commute times · mode share · best-connected neighbourhoods
DfT Journey Time Statistics + ONS Travel-to-Work.
Job access from Bridgend
Bridgend has 0.39 jobs per resident locally. Below median
Job access detailReachability tiers · sector mix in this council area
ONS BRES (jobs density) + DfT job-accessibility minutes.
Frequently asked about Bridgend
Short answers to the questions we get most often. Each answer is anchored in the data above and links onward where you can dig deeper.
- What is the average rent in Bridgend?
- The median monthly rent across Bridgend is £736, based on ONS Private Rental Prices data. Individual neighbourhoods vary — see the shortlist above for the cheapest and most desirable areas.
- Where is the cheapest place to rent in Bridgend?
- The cheapest neighbourhood in Bridgend by estimated median rent is Blaengarw, Pontycymer & Bettws at approximately £551/month. The full top-five cheapest list and our methodology are above.
- What's the best neighbourhood to live in Bridgend?
- By our composite liveability score (which blends safety, transport, schools, rent affordability and EPC), the top-ranked neighbourhood in Bridgend is Maesteg West, Garth & Llangynwyd at 98/100. The score is editorial; see /methodology/scoring/liveability for the formula.
- Is Bridgend a safe area?
- Bridgend has an average safety score of 62/100 across its constituent neighbourhoods (higher is safer). The score is the national percentile rank of police-recorded crimes per 1,000 residents per year, inverted so 100 means the safest 1% of England + Wales.
- What is the average salary in Bridgend?
- The median annual resident salary in Bridgend is £31,475, per ONS ASHE 2025. This is salary for people who live in Bridgend, not for people who commute in to work there. Workplace median salary is published separately.
- What is the average house price in Bridgend?
- The average property price in Bridgend is approximately £212,043 according to HM Land Registry's House Price Index. Individual neighbourhoods vary — typically ±20% around this council area median.
- What's the rental yield in Bridgend?
- Gross rental yield in Bridgend is approximately 4.1% — the council-area level median rent annualised over the council-area level median sale price. Net yield (after agency, void, maintenance and tax) typically runs 30–40% lower.
- How long does it take to save a deposit in Bridgend?
- Saving a 10% deposit at the council area median sale price on the council area median salary, while putting away 10% of takehome pay each month, takes approximately 3.1 years in Bridgend. Faster if you save more, slower if rents are eating into savings.
- Is gigabit broadband available in Bridgend?
- 100% of premises in Bridgend are gigabit-capable per Ofcom Connected Nations 2025. Coverage is patchier in older terraces and rural fringes — check your specific postcode for service availability.
- What's the unemployment rate in Bridgend?
- 3.0% of 16-64 residents in Bridgend are on the DWP Claimant Count — Universal Credit while seeking work, or Jobseeker's Allowance. That's the live monthly local indicator. It's narrower than the ONS Labour Force Survey "ILO unemployment rate" (which counts anyone actively job-seeking on a separate denominator) and narrower again than Census 2021's "% unemployed" (which is calculated against all 16+ residents and so isn't directly comparable).
- How many neighbourhoods are in Bridgend?
- Bridgend contains 19 neighbourhood neighbourhoods covering 91 sub-areas (local areas). Browse the full list at the bottom of this page or use the neighbourhood map above to drill into a specific area.
- How does Bridgend compare to other UK areas?
- Bridgend's average liveability score is 70/100. To compare it side-by-side with another local authority, use the comparison tool at /compare. To see how every council area in Wales ranks across rent, safety, schools and transport, see /gb/wales.
What you need on day one
All sub-areas in Bridgend
Every local area, ordered by crawl priority. Most readers want the neighbourhood-level view — these are for deep-link cases or external search-engine arrivals.
- Bridgend 017E
- Bridgend 016D
- Bridgend 011D
- Bridgend 011C
- Bridgend 014E
- Bridgend 012D
- Bridgend 007B
- Bridgend 015A
- Bridgend 008E
- Bridgend 004A
- Bridgend 006A
- Bridgend 017B
- Bridgend 010C
- Bridgend 018C
- Bridgend 006B
- Bridgend 017F
- Bridgend 006C
- Bridgend 016A
- Bridgend 017C
- Bridgend 010D
- Bridgend 014D
- Bridgend 015C
- Bridgend 011B
- Bridgend 018D
- Bridgend 009C
- Bridgend 005C
- Bridgend 019B
- Bridgend 019D
- Bridgend 015B
- Bridgend 014A
- Bridgend 016C
- Bridgend 014B
- Bridgend 017D
- Bridgend 009D
- Bridgend 014C
- Bridgend 003E
- Bridgend 012A
- Bridgend 002D
- Bridgend 013C
- Bridgend 016B
- Bridgend 017H
- Bridgend 019A
- Bridgend 007C
- Bridgend 001C
- Bridgend 004B
- Bridgend 009E
- Bridgend 007A
- Bridgend 017G
- Bridgend 008A
- Bridgend 002A
- Bridgend 018E
- Bridgend 013B
- Bridgend 005A
- Bridgend 009B
- Bridgend 012C
- Bridgend 008D
- Bridgend 005B
- Bridgend 002E
- Bridgend 012B
- Bridgend 001B
- Bridgend 013A
- Bridgend 011F
- Bridgend 002C
- Bridgend 010A
- Bridgend 004E
- Bridgend 008B
- Bridgend 018F
- Bridgend 001E
- Bridgend 015D
- Bridgend 005D
- Bridgend 009A
- Bridgend 019C
- Bridgend 003B
- Bridgend 018B
- Bridgend 009F
- Bridgend 007D
- Bridgend 003D
- Bridgend 008C
- Bridgend 002B
- Bridgend 008F
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