Neighbourhoods in Torfaen
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.
13 neighbourhoods · 60 sub-areas
Rent, scores and YoY change at a glance.
| Blaenavon | £696 | +3.0% | 66 | 59 |
| Abersychan | £725 | +3.0% | 70 | 58 |
| Trefethin & Pen-y-garn | £752 | +3.0% | 66 | 48 |
| Pontypool | £761 | +3.0% | 87 | 81 |
| Cwmbran | £854 | +3.0% | 71 | 69 |
| Griffithstown & Sebastopol | £866 | +3.0% | 94 | 95 |
| Pontnewydd & Upper Cwmbran | £867 | +3.0% | 85 | 75 |
| Croesyceiliog | £880 | +3.0% | 97 | 86 |
| Fairwater & Greenmeadow | £885 | +3.0% | 77 | 90 |
| Hollybush & Henllys | £902 | +3.0% | 85 | 92 |
| West Pontnewydd & Thornhill | £941 | +3.0% | 79 | 51 |
| New Inn | £944 | +3.0% | 95 | 94 |
| Llantarnam & Oakfield | £981 | +3.0% | 58 | 79 |
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 Torfaen
Three short answers to "where should I focus?" in Torfaen. 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 Torfaen median.
Cost of living
Median rent and council tax across Torfaen.
Rent & price breakdownBy bedroom count · property type · affordability
Rent: ONS PIPR (council area). Council tax: VOA + MHCLG. Sale prices: HM Land Registry.
Safety in Torfaen
Crime in Torfaen runs at 46% below the national average. Above median (#105 of 318 cities) The supporting per-1,000-residents-per-year rate is 54.6, 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 Torfaen
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 Torfaen
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 Torfaen
Torfaen has 0.40 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 Torfaen
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 Torfaen?
- The median monthly rent across Torfaen is £853, 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 Torfaen?
- The cheapest neighbourhood in Torfaen by estimated median rent is Blaenavon at approximately £696/month. The full top-five cheapest list and our methodology are above.
- What's the best neighbourhood to live in Torfaen?
- By our composite liveability score (which blends safety, transport, schools, rent affordability and EPC), the top-ranked neighbourhood in Torfaen is Croesyceiliog at 97/100. The score is editorial; see /methodology/scoring/liveability for the formula.
- Is Torfaen a safe area?
- Torfaen has an average safety score of 71/100 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 Torfaen?
- The median annual resident salary in Torfaen is £33,201, per ONS ASHE 2025. This is salary for people who live in Torfaen, not for people who commute in to work there. Workplace median salary is published separately.
- What is the average house price in Torfaen?
- The average property price in Torfaen is approximately £196,519 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 Torfaen?
- Gross rental yield in Torfaen is approximately 4.9% — 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 Torfaen?
- 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 2.8 years in Torfaen. Faster if you save more, slower if rents are eating into savings.
- Is gigabit broadband available in Torfaen?
- 100% of premises in Torfaen 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 Torfaen?
- 3.8% of 16-64 residents in Torfaen 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 Torfaen?
- Torfaen contains 13 neighbourhood neighbourhoods covering 60 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 Torfaen compare to other UK areas?
- Torfaen's average liveability score is 77/100. 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 Torfaen
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.
- Torfaen 012A
- Torfaen 008A
- Torfaen 004A
- Torfaen 013B
- Torfaen 001D
- Torfaen 010E
- Torfaen 010B
- Torfaen 004D
- Torfaen 007B
- Torfaen 003C
- Torfaen 010D
- Torfaen 001B
- Torfaen 013A
- Torfaen 008C
- Torfaen 005C
- Torfaen 009A
- Torfaen 006D
- Torfaen 003D
- Torfaen 009B
- Torfaen 003B
- Torfaen 002B
- Torfaen 006C
- Torfaen 011C
- Torfaen 011B
- Torfaen 009D
- Torfaen 004E
- Torfaen 007D
- Torfaen 006A
- Torfaen 012C
- Torfaen 010A
- Torfaen 009E
- Torfaen 008D
- Torfaen 003A
- Torfaen 006E
- Torfaen 007A
- Torfaen 002E
- Torfaen 002C
- Torfaen 005A
- Torfaen 004C
- Torfaen 008B
- Torfaen 007C
- Torfaen 005B
- Torfaen 010C
- Torfaen 005D
- Torfaen 012D
- Torfaen 011A
- Torfaen 012B
- Torfaen 006B
- Torfaen 001A
- Torfaen 009C
- Torfaen 007E
- Torfaen 004B
- Torfaen 011E
- Torfaen 001C
- Torfaen 011D
- Torfaen 013C
- Torfaen 002A
- Torfaen 013D
- Torfaen 002D
- Torfaen 004F