Neighbourhoods in Swansea
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30 neighbourhoods · 150 sub-areas
Rent, scores and YoY change at a glance.
| Landore | £638 | +6.1% | 83 | 45 |
| Townhill | £660 | +6.1% | 73 | 34 |
| Morriston South | £661 | +6.1% | 64 | 50 |
| Bon-y-maen | £672 | +6.1% | 81 | 50 |
| Cwmbwrla | £674 | +6.1% | 97 | 85 |
| St Thomas | £681 | +6.1% | 77 | 52 |
| Central Swansea | £682 | +6.1% | 82 | 4 |
| Ravenhill | £685 | +6.1% | 78 | 52 |
| Penderry | £695 | +6.1% | 67 | 34 |
| Llansamlet | £736 | +6.1% | 98 | 80 |
| Brynmill | £738 | +6.1% | 83 | 63 |
| Clydach & Mawr | £745 | +6.1% | 61 | 73 |
| Mynydd-bach | £754 | +6.1% | 78 | 75 |
| Gorseinon | £762 | +6.1% | 82 | 72 |
| Birchgrove | £773 | +6.1% | 82 | 75 |
| Pontarddulais | £790 | +6.1% | 87 | 73 |
| Cockett | £792 | +6.1% | 59 | 44 |
| Loughor | £836 | +6.1% | 93 | 94 |
| Morriston North | £850 | +6.1% | 33 | 53 |
| Gowerton | £871 | +6.1% | 97 | 85 |
| Llangyfelach & Tircoed | £897 | +6.1% | 55 | 81 |
| Uplands | £929 | +6.1% | 59 | 56 |
| Swansea 032 | £977 | +6.1% | 71 | 98 |
| Llanmorlais & Three Crosses | £1,050 | +6.1% | 52 | 92 |
| West Cross | £1,058 | +6.1% | 25 | 74 |
| Sketty | £1,087 | +6.1% | 43 | 89 |
| Ty-coch | £1,097 | +6.1% | 29 | 86 |
| Mayals & Bishopston | £1,151 | +6.1% | 47 | 99 |
| Mumbles & Newton | £1,152 | +6.1% | 36 | 83 |
| West Gower | £1,198 | +6.1% | 22 | 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 Swansea
Three short answers to "where should I focus?" in Swansea. 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 Swansea median.
Cost of living
Median rent and council tax across Swansea.
Rent & price breakdownBy bedroom count · property type · affordability
Rent: ONS PIPR (council area). Council tax: VOA + MHCLG. Sale prices: HM Land Registry.
Safety in Swansea
Crime in Swansea runs at 36% below the national average. Below median (#160 of 318 cities) The supporting per-1,000-residents-per-year rate is 64.0, 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 Swansea
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 Swansea
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 Swansea
Swansea has 0.45 jobs per resident locally. Above median
Job access detailReachability tiers · sector mix in this council area
ONS BRES (jobs density) + DfT job-accessibility minutes.
Frequently asked about Swansea
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 Swansea?
- The median monthly rent across Swansea is £833, 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 Swansea?
- The cheapest neighbourhood in Swansea by estimated median rent is Landore at approximately £638/month. The full top-five cheapest list and our methodology are above.
- What's the best neighbourhood to live in Swansea?
- By our composite liveability score (which blends safety, transport, schools, rent affordability and EPC), the top-ranked neighbourhood in Swansea is Llansamlet at 98/100. The score is editorial; see /methodology/scoring/liveability for the formula.
- Is Swansea a safe area?
- Swansea has an average safety score of 65/100 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 Swansea?
- The median annual resident salary in Swansea is £32,091, per ONS ASHE 2025. This is salary for people who live in Swansea, not for people who commute in to work there. Workplace median salary is published separately.
- What is the average house price in Swansea?
- The average property price in Swansea is approximately £204,297 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 Swansea?
- Gross rental yield in Swansea is approximately 5.1% — 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 Swansea?
- 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 2.9 years in Swansea. Faster if you save more, slower if rents are eating into savings.
- Is gigabit broadband available in Swansea?
- 100% of premises in Swansea 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 Swansea?
- 3.4% of 16-64 residents in Swansea 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 Swansea?
- Swansea contains 30 neighbourhood neighbourhoods covering 150 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 Swansea compare to other UK areas?
- Swansea's average liveability score is 66/100. 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 Swansea
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.
- Swansea 025B
- Swansea 026D
- Swansea 026A
- Swansea 024F
- Swansea 022E
- Swansea 016F
- Swansea 015C
- Swansea 025I
- Swansea 026E
- Swansea 011A
- Swansea 014B
- Swansea 026B
- Swansea 016B
- Swansea 019C
- Swansea 006D
- Swansea 009A
- Swansea 024A
- Swansea 024E
- Swansea 031A
- Swansea 013C
- Swansea 015D
- Swansea 019A
- Swansea 019D
- Swansea 010A
- Swansea 022D
- Swansea 029A
- Swansea 025F
- Swansea 011C
- Swansea 015B
- Swansea 015A
- Swansea 019F
- Swansea 017A
- Swansea 017D
- Swansea 011B
- Swansea 021A
- Swansea 011E
- Swansea 019B
- Swansea 019E
- Swansea 013D
- Swansea 021E
- Swansea 022A
- Swansea 009E
- Swansea 010D
- Swansea 008E
- Swansea 008D
- Swansea 021C
- Swansea 008A
- Swansea 029B
- Swansea 029D
- Swansea 012C
- Swansea 013E
- Swansea 003D
- Swansea 004C
- Swansea 024C
- Swansea 027A
- Swansea 004A
- Swansea 014D
- Swansea 016A
- Swansea 002F
- Swansea 002D
- Swansea 016D
- Swansea 012B
- Swansea 032D
- Swansea 009C
- Swansea 003A
- Swansea 028A
- Swansea 027D
- Swansea 016C
- Swansea 001B
- Swansea 007D
- Swansea 032E
- Swansea 018C
- Swansea 032C
- Swansea 024D
- Swansea 026C
- Swansea 010B
- Swansea 005C
- Swansea 003F
- Swansea 029C
- Swansea 003E
Showing 80 of 150 sub-areas. Drill into any neighbourhood above for the full sub-area list.