Neighbourhoods in Carmarthenshire
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25 neighbourhoods · 111 sub-areas
Rent, scores and YoY change at a glance.
| Llanelli South | £528 | +5.3% | 85 | 23 |
| Llanelli Bigyn | £541 | +5.3% | 88 | 30 |
| Dafen & Felin-foel | £542 | +5.3% | 71 | 27 |
| Llanelli North | £573 | +5.3% | 72 | 28 |
| Bynea & Llwynhendy | £580 | +5.3% | 81 | 46 |
| Brynaman, Y Garnant & Glanaman | £595 | +5.3% | 72 | 71 |
| Pembrey & Burry Port | £624 | +5.3% | 85 | 51 |
| Cydweli & Trimsaran | £630 | +5.3% | 86 | 73 |
| Llanelli West | £633 | +5.3% | 56 | 40 |
| Llan-non, Cross Hands & Pen-y-groes | £640 | +5.3% | 59 | 80 |
| Swiss Valley & Llangennech | £642 | +5.3% | 88 | 83 |
| Glyn & Pontyberem | £649 | +5.3% | 56 | 82 |
| Ammanford & Betws | £662 | +5.3% | 80 | 42 |
| Carmarthen South & Llangynnwr | £669 | +5.3% | 49 | 35 |
| Llandybie & Saron | £678 | +5.3% | 86 | 79 |
| Carmarthen North | £680 | +5.3% | 54 | 31 |
| Yr Hendy & Tŷ-croes | £700 | +5.3% | 93 | 91 |
| Tre-lech, Cenarth & Llangeler | £730 | +5.3% | 41 | 87 |
| Carmarthen West & Cynwyl Elfed | £739 | +5.3% | 55 | 39 |
| Llanddarog, Llangyndeyrn & Ferryside | £742 | +5.3% | 52 | 83 |
| Whitland, Laugharne & Llansteffan | £757 | +5.3% | 26 | 78 |
| Llanfihangel-ar-arth & Llanybydder | £766 | +5.3% | 32 | 71 |
| Llandovery, Cil-y-cwm & Cynwyl Gaeo | £787 | +5.3% | 75 | 87 |
| Abergwili, Llanegwad & Carmel | £789 | +5.3% | 40 | 96 |
| Llandeilo, Llangadog & Maenordeilo | £793 | +5.3% | 33 | 86 |
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 Carmarthenshire
Three short answers to "where should I focus?" in Carmarthenshire. 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 Carmarthenshire median.
Cost of living
Median rent and council tax across Carmarthenshire.
Rent & price breakdownBy bedroom count · property type · affordability
Rent: ONS PIPR (council area). Council tax: VOA + MHCLG. Sale prices: HM Land Registry.
Safety in Carmarthenshire
Crime in Carmarthenshire runs at 38% below the national average. Above median (#152 of 318 cities) The supporting per-1,000-residents-per-year rate is 62.4, 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 Carmarthenshire
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 Carmarthenshire
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 Carmarthenshire
Carmarthenshire has 0.38 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 Carmarthenshire
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 Carmarthenshire?
- The median monthly rent across Carmarthenshire is £668, 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 Carmarthenshire?
- The cheapest neighbourhood in Carmarthenshire by estimated median rent is Llanelli South at approximately £528/month. The full top-five cheapest list and our methodology are above.
- What's the best neighbourhood to live in Carmarthenshire?
- By our composite liveability score (which blends safety, transport, schools, rent affordability and EPC), the top-ranked neighbourhood in Carmarthenshire is Yr Hendy & Tŷ-croes at 93/100. The score is editorial; see /methodology/scoring/liveability for the formula.
- Is Carmarthenshire a safe area?
- Carmarthenshire 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 Carmarthenshire?
- The median annual resident salary in Carmarthenshire is £30,774, per ONS ASHE 2025. This is salary for people who live in Carmarthenshire, not for people who commute in to work there. Workplace median salary is published separately.
- What is the average house price in Carmarthenshire?
- The average property price in Carmarthenshire is approximately £196,199 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 Carmarthenshire?
- Gross rental yield in Carmarthenshire is approximately 3.9% — 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 Carmarthenshire?
- 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 3.2 years in Carmarthenshire. Faster if you save more, slower if rents are eating into savings.
- Is gigabit broadband available in Carmarthenshire?
- 100% of premises in Carmarthenshire 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 Carmarthenshire?
- 2.9% of 16-64 residents in Carmarthenshire 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 Carmarthenshire?
- Carmarthenshire contains 25 neighbourhood neighbourhoods covering 111 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 Carmarthenshire compare to other UK areas?
- Carmarthenshire's average liveability score is 63/100. 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 Carmarthenshire
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.
- Carmarthenshire 024B
- Carmarthenshire 025B
- Carmarthenshire 025D
- Carmarthenshire 022A
- Carmarthenshire 022C
- Carmarthenshire 026B
- Carmarthenshire 006C
- Carmarthenshire 017C
- Carmarthenshire 016B
- Carmarthenshire 024D
- Carmarthenshire 011A
- Carmarthenshire 025A
- Carmarthenshire 020B
- Carmarthenshire 025C
- Carmarthenshire 021A
- Carmarthenshire 013C
- Carmarthenshire 012A
- Carmarthenshire 006B
- Carmarthenshire 015B
- Carmarthenshire 023B
- Carmarthenshire 015A
- Carmarthenshire 016C
- Carmarthenshire 004D
- Carmarthenshire 026D
- Carmarthenshire 019F
- Carmarthenshire 008A
- Carmarthenshire 026F
- Carmarthenshire 023C
- Carmarthenshire 015D
- Carmarthenshire 011C
- Carmarthenshire 011D
- Carmarthenshire 026A
- Carmarthenshire 011B
- Carmarthenshire 019B
- Carmarthenshire 027G
- Carmarthenshire 024C
- Carmarthenshire 021D
- Carmarthenshire 003A
- Carmarthenshire 024A
- Carmarthenshire 007C
- Carmarthenshire 017A
- Carmarthenshire 006A
- Carmarthenshire 027D
- Carmarthenshire 016A
- Carmarthenshire 013B
- Carmarthenshire 018B
- Carmarthenshire 022B
- Carmarthenshire 012B
- Carmarthenshire 019A
- Carmarthenshire 020C
- Carmarthenshire 021E
- Carmarthenshire 026E
- Carmarthenshire 001C
- Carmarthenshire 005D
- Carmarthenshire 013D
- Carmarthenshire 027B
- Carmarthenshire 005A
- Carmarthenshire 003C
- Carmarthenshire 023F
- Carmarthenshire 004C
- Carmarthenshire 021B
- Carmarthenshire 012C
- Carmarthenshire 019C
- Carmarthenshire 018A
- Carmarthenshire 026H
- Carmarthenshire 010A
- Carmarthenshire 008B
- Carmarthenshire 026G
- Carmarthenshire 017B
- Carmarthenshire 021C
- Carmarthenshire 016E
- Carmarthenshire 023A
- Carmarthenshire 027A
- Carmarthenshire 004A
- Carmarthenshire 010D
- Carmarthenshire 002A
- Carmarthenshire 010E
- Carmarthenshire 027C
- Carmarthenshire 003D
- Carmarthenshire 007A
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