Neighbourhoods in Cardiff
Tap any row or map polygon to drill into that neighbourhood — hovering on desktop will preview the link before you click. Switch the tab strip above the table to focus on Affordability, Schools, Transport, Safety or Wealth — the columns swap and the default sort follows.
48 neighbourhoods · 218 sub-areas
Rent, scores and YoY change at a glance.
| Cardiff Bay | £871 | +4.8% | 81 | 47 |
| Butetown | £903 | +4.8% | 85 | 25 |
| Splott | £967 | +4.8% | 73 | 51 |
| Trowbridge | £976 | +4.8% | 14 | 40 |
| Tremorfa & Pengam | £980 | +4.8% | 43 | 37 |
| Adamsdown | £987 | +4.8% | 61 | 6 |
| Caerau West | £993 | +4.8% | 23 | 38 |
| Caerau East | £995 | +4.8% | 53 | 15 |
| South Riverside | £1,004 | +4.8% | 62 | 12 |
| Llanedeyrn | £1,027 | +4.8% | 76 | 58 |
| St Mellons West | £1,030 | +4.8% | 4 | 26 |
| Fairwater North | £1,032 | +4.8% | 76 | 63 |
| Pentwyn | £1,037 | +4.8% | 61 | 71 |
| Grangetown South | £1,041 | +4.8% | 61 | 36 |
| Llanrumney North | £1,042 | +4.8% | 8 | 42 |
| Grangetown North | £1,043 | +4.8% | 77 | 52 |
| Cathays South & Bute Park | £1,048 | +4.8% | 80 | 58 |
| Pwll-mawr & St Mellons East | £1,049 | +4.8% | 27 | 71 |
| Llanrumney South | £1,079 | +4.8% | 17 | 49 |
| Fairwater South | £1,094 | +4.8% | 69 | 47 |
| Plasnewydd | £1,096 | +4.8% | 69 | 47 |
| Ely East | £1,103 | +4.8% | 49 | 26 |
| Rumney | £1,120 | +4.8% | 39 | 85 |
| Ely West | £1,137 | +4.8% | 50 | 63 |
| Pontprennau | £1,165 | +4.8% | 28 | 81 |
| Roath | £1,169 | +4.8% | 55 | 66 |
| Cathays North | £1,196 | +4.8% | 90 | 85 |
| Canton | £1,196 | +4.8% | 40 | 59 |
| Llandaf North | £1,198 | +4.8% | 44 | 51 |
| Thornhill | £1,199 | +4.8% | 94 | 99 |
| Tongwynlais & Coryton | £1,229 | +4.8% | 80 | 60 |
| Llanishen | £1,239 | +4.8% | 63 | 61 |
| Gabalfa | £1,239 | +4.8% | 45 | 80 |
| Pontcanna | £1,246 | +4.8% | 39 | 54 |
| Pen-y-lan South | £1,254 | +4.8% | 17 | 54 |
| Victoria Park | £1,259 | +4.8% | 55 | 76 |
| Llandaf & Danescourt | £1,301 | +4.8% | 82 | 90 |
| Creigiau, Pentyrch & St Fagans | £1,318 | +4.8% | 14 | 76 |
| Pen-y-lan North | £1,338 | +4.8% | 26 | 94 |
| Whitchurch | £1,344 | +4.8% | 57 | 85 |
| Birchgrove | £1,351 | +4.8% | 77 | 92 |
| Radyr, Morganstown & Gwaelod-y-garth | £1,364 | +4.8% | 67 | 95 |
| Heath | £1,460 | +4.8% | 74 | 98 |
| Rhiwbina Village | £1,473 | +4.8% | 79 | 90 |
| Cyncoed North | £1,491 | +4.8% | 66 | 98 |
| Rhiwbina & Pant-mawr | £1,508 | +4.8% | 65 | 98 |
| Cyncoed South & Roath Park | £1,557 | +4.8% | 56 | 88 |
| Lisvane | £1,565 | +4.8% | 73 | 98 |
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 Cardiff
Three short answers to "where should I focus?" in Cardiff. 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 Cardiff median.
Cost of living
Median rent and council tax across Cardiff.
Rent & price breakdownBy bedroom count · property type · affordability
Rent: ONS PIPR (council area). Council tax: VOA + MHCLG. Sale prices: HM Land Registry.
Safety in Cardiff
Crime in Cardiff runs at 21% below the national average. Below median (#238 of 318 cities) The supporting per-1,000-residents-per-year rate is 79.7, 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 Cardiff
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 Cardiff
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 Cardiff
Cardiff has 0.63 jobs per resident locally. Top quartile
Job access detailReachability tiers · sector mix in this council area
ONS BRES (jobs density) + DfT job-accessibility minutes.
Frequently asked about Cardiff
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 Cardiff?
- The median monthly rent across Cardiff is £1,157, 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 Cardiff?
- The cheapest neighbourhood in Cardiff by estimated median rent is Cardiff Bay at approximately £871/month. The full top-five cheapest list and our methodology are above.
- What's the best neighbourhood to live in Cardiff?
- By our composite liveability score (which blends safety, transport, schools, rent affordability and EPC), the top-ranked neighbourhood in Cardiff is Thornhill at 94/100. The score is editorial; see /methodology/scoring/liveability for the formula.
- Is Cardiff a safe area?
- Cardiff has an average safety score of 61/100 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 Cardiff?
- The median annual resident salary in Cardiff is £32,756, per ONS ASHE 2025. This is salary for people who live in Cardiff, not for people who commute in to work there. Workplace median salary is published separately.
- What is the average house price in Cardiff?
- The average property price in Cardiff is approximately £269,319 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 Cardiff?
- Gross rental yield in Cardiff is approximately 5.0% — 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 Cardiff?
- 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 3.9 years in Cardiff. Faster if you save more, slower if rents are eating into savings.
- Is gigabit broadband available in Cardiff?
- 100% of premises in Cardiff 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 Cardiff?
- 3.9% of 16-64 residents in Cardiff 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 Cardiff?
- Cardiff contains 48 neighbourhood neighbourhoods covering 218 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 Cardiff compare to other UK areas?
- Cardiff's average liveability score is 56/100. 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 Cardiff
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.
- Cardiff 036E
- Cardiff 033A
- Cardiff 036B
- Cardiff 028C
- Cardiff 042C
- Cardiff 032C
- Cardiff 028A
- Cardiff 033B
- Cardiff 025D
- Cardiff 025B
- Cardiff 042D
- Cardiff 040E
- Cardiff 044E
- Cardiff 012A
- Cardiff 044D
- Cardiff 040B
- Cardiff 042A
- Cardiff 030E
- Cardiff 032E
- Cardiff 046D
- Cardiff 032A
- Cardiff 036D
- Cardiff 046C
- Cardiff 039A
- Cardiff 044A
- Cardiff 009B
- Cardiff 032D
- Cardiff 049A
- Cardiff 027D
- Cardiff 036A
- Cardiff 033F
- Cardiff 028B
- Cardiff 034C
- Cardiff 021B
- Cardiff 020C
- Cardiff 019A
- Cardiff 040G
- Cardiff 034B
- Cardiff 033C
- Cardiff 028D
- Cardiff 031C
- Cardiff 036C
- Cardiff 025A
- Cardiff 043A
- Cardiff 049F
- Cardiff 045D
- Cardiff 035D
- Cardiff 003D
- Cardiff 029B
- Cardiff 017D
- Cardiff 042B
- Cardiff 035A
- Cardiff 007C
- Cardiff 041C
- Cardiff 044B
- Cardiff 007B
- Cardiff 037A
- Cardiff 030D
- Cardiff 038C
- Cardiff 024C
- Cardiff 029A
- Cardiff 019D
- Cardiff 031D
- Cardiff 038B
- Cardiff 012B
- Cardiff 016C
- Cardiff 024A
- Cardiff 017E
- Cardiff 033D
- Cardiff 041A
- Cardiff 033E
- Cardiff 044C
- Cardiff 037D
- Cardiff 017A
- Cardiff 039C
- Cardiff 021D
- Cardiff 020A
- Cardiff 029C
- Cardiff 026B
- Cardiff 017C
Showing 80 of 218 sub-areas. Drill into any neighbourhood above for the full sub-area list.