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Whitchurch and Rhiwbina (CF14): an area guide before you move

Whitchurch and Rhiwbina (CF14) has a recorded-sale median of £335,000, alongside 0 open registered schools and 24 rail, metro or tram access nodes. The sections below set out the wider local picture before you move.

What the district facts say

Budget starting point

Median £335,000 from 1,732 completed sales.

The median is the clearest broad starting point for this district.

Daily-life picture

0 open schools. 408 bus and 24 rail, metro or tram nodes.

These are the district-level building blocks for everyday life.

District prices

CF14 recorded 1,732 completed sales in the 24-month sample. The median was £335,000. The £374,795 average is higher because a small number of expensive sales can lift it.

Median recorded sale
£335,000
Average recorded sale
£374,795
Recorded sales
1,732 (24 months)
HM Land Registry Price Paid Data. local 2025-2026 bulk snapshot. Retrieved 2026-10-01.
How this was counted

Postcode district. non-deleted recorded sales in preceding 24 months.

Crime and serious-crime share

Police.uk records 5,164 reports from 2025-07 to 2026-06. Violence and sexual offences, robbery, burglary and weapons-possession reports account for 1,838, or 35.6% of the total.

Reported crime, 12 months
5,164
Selected report-category share
1,838 (35.6%)
data.police.uk street-level crime custom download. 2025-07 to 2026-06; seven verified programme forces. Original download date not recorded.
How this was counted

Postcode district. Police.uk anonymised coordinates assigned to nearest Code-Point Open centroid; selected-category share is not an official severity rate.

Local-area deprivation context

IMD is a Government local-area scale from 1 to 10: 1 is the poorer end, while 10 is the more well-off end. CF14 has a median of 9.0. 8.1% of mapped postcode units are in the poorer 1 to 3 band and 74.8% are in the more well-off 8 to 10 band.

Median IMD decile
9.0 / 10
Postcode units in deciles 1–3
8.1%
Postcode units in deciles 8–10
74.8%
Welsh Government Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025 — Cardiff extract. 2025-11-25. Original download date not recorded.
How this was counted

Postcode district. distribution of WIMD 2025 deciles at Code-Point postcode centroids; Wales only.

Schools

The register lists 0 open establishments in CF14. It is a useful picture of the local school base, across the phases shown in the card below.

Registered school sites
0 ()
DfE Get Information about Schools establishment register. 2026-08-02. Original download date not recorded.
How this was counted

Postcode district. open GIAS establishments grouped by registered postcode district.

Green space and outdoor sport

OS maps 122 green-space or outdoor-sport sites covering 472.41 hectares, including 20 public parks or gardens. This gives the district a substantial mapped outdoor offer.

Mapped OS green-space sites
122
Mapped site area
472.41 ha
Public parks or gardens
20
OS Open Greenspace. April 2026 programme-city tile manifest. Original download date not recorded.
How this was counted

Postcode district. OS Open Greenspace April 2026 site polygon geometric centroid assigned to nearest Code-Point Open postcode centroid.

Flood context

Natural Resources Wales maps flood-risk bands at 1,658 postcode centroids. 167 fall within a mapped extent: 5 high, 2 medium and 160 low.

Postcode centroids in source
1,658
In a mapped flood-risk extent
167
Highest mapped risk: high / medium / low
5 / 2 / 160
Natural Resources Wales Flood Risk Assessment Wales. 2026-05-21 Cardiff extract manifest. Original download date not recorded.
How this was counted

Postcode district. point-in-polygon classification of Code-Point postcode centroids against NRW Flood Risk Assessment Wales risk bands.

Air quality

The 2024 modelled annual-mean NO₂ median is 11.1 µg/m³. 94.0% of mapped units exceed the WHO 10 µg/m³ guideline and 0.0% meet or exceed 40 µg/m³.

Median annual mean NO₂
11.1 µg/m³
Postcode units above WHO 10 µg/m³
94.0%
Postcode units at or above legal 40 µg/m³
0.0%
DEFRA Pollution Climate Mapping annual-mean NO2 grid. 2024. Original download date not recorded.
How this was counted

Postcode district. DEFRA PCM 2024 1 km modelled annual-mean NO2 looked up at each Code-Point Open postcode centroid; postcode-unit weighted district summary.

Transport access nodes

NaPTAN contains 408 active bus nodes and 24 rail, metro or tram nodes across CF14. Together, they describe the district-wide public-transport network.

Active bus access nodes
408
Active rail, metro or tram nodes
24
NaPTAN. 2026-08-02. Original download date not recorded.
How this was counted

Postcode district. active NaPTAN access node assigned to nearest Code-Point Open centroid.

Broadband availability

The postcode-unit median maximum advertised download is 1,000 Mbit/s, with 100.0% full-fibre and 100.0% gigabit availability.

Median maximum advertised download
1,000 Mbit/s
Median full-fibre availability
100.0%
Median gigabit availability
100.0%
Ofcom Connected Nations. 2025. Original download date not recorded.
How this was counted

Postcode district. median across postcode units.

Road safety

DfT records 129 personal-injury collisions in 2022 to 24: 2 fatal, 13 serious and 114 slight.

Reported collisions, 2022–24 (raw count)
129
Fatal
2
Serious
13
Slight
114
DfT STATS19 Road Safety Data. 2022-2024 collision files. Original download date not recorded.
How this was counted

Postcode district. 2022–24 STATS19 collision assigned to nearest Code-Point Open centroid.

Sources and method

Related guides

For an address-specific desk check, Property Diligence’s paid report adds the more detailed property-level information available from public sources.