Neighbourhoods in Monmouthshire
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.
11 neighbourhoods · 58 sub-areas
Rent, scores and YoY change at a glance.
| Caldicot South | £828 | +3.6% | 93 | 81 |
| Abergavenny North | £866 | +3.6% | 53 | 78 |
| Chepstow South | £905 | +3.6% | 78 | 82 |
| Gilwern & Llanfoist | £933 | +3.6% | 38 | 89 |
| Monmouth & Wyesham | £938 | +3.6% | 37 | 86 |
| Magor & Rogiet | £943 | +3.6% | 52 | 96 |
| Abergavenny South & Crucorney | £975 | +3.6% | 27 | 80 |
| Caldicot North & Caer-went | £994 | +3.6% | 48 | 97 |
| Usk, Goytre & Llangybi Fawr | £999 | +3.6% | 32 | 99 |
| Chepstow North & Trellech | £1,164 | +3.6% | 17 | 98 |
| Rhaglan & Llantilio Crossenny | £1,166 | +3.6% | 14 | 99 |
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 Monmouthshire
Three short answers to "where should I focus?" in Monmouthshire. 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 Monmouthshire median.
Cost of living
Median rent and council tax across Monmouthshire.
Rent & price breakdownBy bedroom count · property type · affordability
Rent: ONS PIPR (council area). Council tax: VOA + MHCLG. Sale prices: HM Land Registry.
Safety in Monmouthshire
Crime in Monmouthshire runs at 3.5× safer than the national average. Best 5% nationally (#11 of 318 cities) The supporting per-1,000-residents-per-year rate is 29.0, 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 Monmouthshire
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 Monmouthshire
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 Monmouthshire
Monmouthshire 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 Monmouthshire
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 Monmouthshire?
- The median monthly rent across Monmouthshire is £987, 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 Monmouthshire?
- The cheapest neighbourhood in Monmouthshire by estimated median rent is Caldicot South at approximately £828/month. The full top-five cheapest list and our methodology are above.
- What's the best neighbourhood to live in Monmouthshire?
- By our composite liveability score (which blends safety, transport, schools, rent affordability and EPC), the top-ranked neighbourhood in Monmouthshire is Caldicot South at 93/100. The score is editorial; see /methodology/scoring/liveability for the formula.
- Is Monmouthshire a safe area?
- Monmouthshire has an average safety score of 87/100 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 Monmouthshire?
- The median annual resident salary in Monmouthshire is £35,020, per ONS ASHE 2025. This is salary for people who live in Monmouthshire, not for people who commute in to work there. Workplace median salary is published separately.
- What is the average house price in Monmouthshire?
- The average property price in Monmouthshire is approximately £329,218 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 Monmouthshire?
- Gross rental yield in Monmouthshire is approximately 3.4% — 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 Monmouthshire?
- 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 4.6 years in Monmouthshire. Faster if you save more, slower if rents are eating into savings.
- Is gigabit broadband available in Monmouthshire?
- 100% of premises in Monmouthshire 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 Monmouthshire?
- 2.4% of 16-64 residents in Monmouthshire 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 Monmouthshire?
- Monmouthshire contains 11 neighbourhood neighbourhoods covering 58 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 Monmouthshire compare to other UK areas?
- Monmouthshire's average liveability score is 46/100. 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 Monmouthshire
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.
- Monmouthshire 010G
- Monmouthshire 007D
- Monmouthshire 010F
- Monmouthshire 008D
- Monmouthshire 009C
- Monmouthshire 010C
- Monmouthshire 008E
- Monmouthshire 008C
- Monmouthshire 008B
- Monmouthshire 011A
- Monmouthshire 009B
- Monmouthshire 011D
- Monmouthshire 009D
- Monmouthshire 009A
- Monmouthshire 001C
- Monmouthshire 005E
- Monmouthshire 010E
- Monmouthshire 006D
- Monmouthshire 002G
- Monmouthshire 002E
- Monmouthshire 011C
- Monmouthshire 006F
- Monmouthshire 004D
- Monmouthshire 010D
- Monmouthshire 002A
- Monmouthshire 002H
- Monmouthshire 002C
- Monmouthshire 007C
- Monmouthshire 004H
- Monmouthshire 001E
- Monmouthshire 011E
- Monmouthshire 003A
- Monmouthshire 004A
- Monmouthshire 001B
- Monmouthshire 005F
- Monmouthshire 005C
- Monmouthshire 008A
- Monmouthshire 004F
- Monmouthshire 001D
- Monmouthshire 007A
- Monmouthshire 006E
- Monmouthshire 006B
- Monmouthshire 006A
- Monmouthshire 003E
- Monmouthshire 003B
- Monmouthshire 003G
- Monmouthshire 011B
- Monmouthshire 001A
- Monmouthshire 007B
- Monmouthshire 003C
- Monmouthshire 003F
- Monmouthshire 007E
- Monmouthshire 004C
- Monmouthshire 004G
- Monmouthshire 006C
- Monmouthshire 004E
- Monmouthshire 007F
- Monmouthshire 005D