Neighbourhoods in Caerphilly
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24 neighbourhoods · 110 sub-areas
Rent, scores and YoY change at a glance.
| New Tredegar & Darren Valley | £575 | +8.2% | 99 | 79 |
| Rhymney, Pontlottyn & Abertysswg | £587 | +8.2% | 96 | 57 |
| Bargoed | £638 | +8.2% | 98 | 68 |
| Aberbargoed & Gilfach | £644 | +8.2% | 95 | 79 |
| Aber Valley | £649 | +8.2% | 87 | 79 |
| Newbridge | £655 | +8.2% | 97 | 76 |
| Crosskeys North & Abercarn | £676 | +8.2% | 94 | 83 |
| Pengam & Cefn Fforest | £689 | +8.2% | 97 | 77 |
| Risca East | £693 | +8.2% | 97 | 77 |
| Crosskeys South & Ynysddu | £699 | +8.2% | 84 | 79 |
| North Blackwood, Argoed & Markham | £710 | +8.2% | 82 | 85 |
| Pontllan-fraith | £742 | +8.2% | 96 | 88 |
| Llanbradach & Penyrheol | £746 | +8.2% | 97 | 86 |
| Risca West | £748 | +8.2% | 94 | 71 |
| Blackwood | £754 | +8.2% | 88 | 86 |
| St Cattwg | £755 | +8.2% | 98 | 94 |
| Oakdale & Pen-twyn | £755 | +8.2% | 91 | 94 |
| Ystrad Mynach & Nelson | £771 | +8.2% | 94 | 84 |
| Hengoed & Maesycwmer | £782 | +8.2% | 93 | 83 |
| Caerphilly East | £807 | +8.2% | 82 | 76 |
| Machen | £813 | +8.2% | 73 | 81 |
| Caerphilly West | £834 | +8.2% | 95 | 84 |
| Caerphilly South | £864 | +8.2% | 77 | 83 |
| Bedwas & Trethomas | £894 | +8.2% | 50 | 76 |
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 Caerphilly
Three short answers to "where should I focus?" in Caerphilly. 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 Caerphilly median.
Cost of living
Median rent and council tax across Caerphilly.
Rent & price breakdownBy bedroom count · property type · affordability
Rent: ONS PIPR (council area). Council tax: VOA + MHCLG. Sale prices: HM Land Registry.
Safety in Caerphilly
Crime in Caerphilly runs at 2.0× safer than the national average. Top quartile (#75 of 318 cities) The supporting per-1,000-residents-per-year rate is 50.1, 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 Caerphilly
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 Caerphilly
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 Caerphilly
Caerphilly has 0.31 jobs per resident locally. Bottom 10%
Job access detailReachability tiers · sector mix in this council area
ONS BRES (jobs density) + DfT job-accessibility minutes.
Frequently asked about Caerphilly
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 Caerphilly?
- The median monthly rent across Caerphilly 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 Caerphilly?
- The cheapest neighbourhood in Caerphilly by estimated median rent is New Tredegar & Darren Valley at approximately £575/month. The full top-five cheapest list and our methodology are above.
- What's the best neighbourhood to live in Caerphilly?
- By our composite liveability score (which blends safety, transport, schools, rent affordability and EPC), the top-ranked neighbourhood in Caerphilly is New Tredegar & Darren Valley at 99/100. The score is editorial; see /methodology/scoring/liveability for the formula.
- Is Caerphilly a safe area?
- Caerphilly has an average safety score of 77/100 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 Caerphilly?
- The median annual resident salary in Caerphilly is £30,854, per ONS ASHE 2025. This is salary for people who live in Caerphilly, not for people who commute in to work there. Workplace median salary is published separately.
- What is the average house price in Caerphilly?
- The average property price in Caerphilly is approximately £197,105 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 Caerphilly?
- Gross rental yield in Caerphilly is approximately 4.3% — 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 Caerphilly?
- 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 Caerphilly. Faster if you save more, slower if rents are eating into savings.
- Is gigabit broadband available in Caerphilly?
- 100% of premises in Caerphilly 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 Caerphilly?
- 3.5% of 16-64 residents in Caerphilly 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 Caerphilly?
- Caerphilly contains 24 neighbourhood neighbourhoods covering 110 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 Caerphilly compare to other UK areas?
- Caerphilly's average liveability score is 87/100. 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 Caerphilly
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.
- Caerphilly 012B
- Caerphilly 024A
- Caerphilly 022C
- Caerphilly 022E
- Caerphilly 023A
- Caerphilly 009A
- Caerphilly 004C
- Caerphilly 016D
- Caerphilly 012A
- Caerphilly 022F
- Caerphilly 014A
- Caerphilly 012C
- Caerphilly 024F
- Caerphilly 023E
- Caerphilly 015B
- Caerphilly 011B
- Caerphilly 007A
- Caerphilly 018C
- Caerphilly 011E
- Caerphilly 017B
- Caerphilly 011A
- Caerphilly 013D
- Caerphilly 009B
- Caerphilly 017C
- Caerphilly 011D
- Caerphilly 009D
- Caerphilly 023D
- Caerphilly 016C
- Caerphilly 009C
- Caerphilly 007B
- Caerphilly 003C
- Caerphilly 024D
- Caerphilly 014C
- Caerphilly 016B
- Caerphilly 024C
- Caerphilly 020B
- Caerphilly 011C
- Caerphilly 012D
- Caerphilly 003B
- Caerphilly 022B
- Caerphilly 022A
- Caerphilly 016A
- Caerphilly 010A
- Caerphilly 019E
- Caerphilly 024E
- Caerphilly 007D
- Caerphilly 015A
- Caerphilly 008A
- Caerphilly 018B
- Caerphilly 019B
- Caerphilly 008B
- Caerphilly 019F
- Caerphilly 024B
- Caerphilly 013B
- Caerphilly 019D
- Caerphilly 006B
- Caerphilly 020C
- Caerphilly 001D
- Caerphilly 008D
- Caerphilly 015C
- Caerphilly 020A
- Caerphilly 006E
- Caerphilly 006F
- Caerphilly 013F
- Caerphilly 019A
- Caerphilly 010D
- Caerphilly 018A
- Caerphilly 002E
- Caerphilly 019C
- Caerphilly 010C
- Caerphilly 017A
- Caerphilly 021C
- Caerphilly 021A
- Caerphilly 014D
- Caerphilly 020D
- Caerphilly 013E
- Caerphilly 007E
- Caerphilly 023C
- Caerphilly 018D
- Caerphilly 008C
Showing 80 of 110 sub-areas. Drill into any neighbourhood above for the full sub-area list.