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It is a town of 7,447 residents in West Glamorgan, Wales.
Where it falls short is health — 7.8% of residents report bad or very bad health, and 23.5% are disabled. Work and incomes lag (C): the mean household earns £46,485 a year. Its strongest is cost of living: a typical home costs £200,000 and rent runs £852 a month. The overall grade comes out at C−, #9 of 19 in West Glamorgan. Nationally, it does better than just over a fifth of UK towns.
Figures: prices, HM Land Registry, the last three years · health, Census 2021 (the grade adjusts for age) · income, ONS · claimants, DWP.
This town's Health Grade uses ONS's small-area life expectancy and healthy life expectancy for 2019 to 2023, and two Census 2021 measures, bad health and disability, adjusted for age. English towns' grades also use OHID's small-area early deaths, hospital admissions and child obesity, which OHID publishes for England only.
Each subject compared with the 2,160 UK towns with an overall grade (schools within Wales), ordered by how far Gowerton is from typical. American towns are graded separately.
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Cadw lists 2 buildings inside Gowerton’s built-up area.
20% of its homes were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town.
Explore the history →Museums, castles, gardens and days out in and near Gowerton. Best known first.
Castle · CadwLoughor Castle2 km outside town, to the northwest
CathedralSt Joseph's Cathedral4.3 km outside town, to the east
Castle · CadwSwansea Castle4.9 km outside town, to the east
MuseumGlynn Vivian Art Gallery4.6 km outside town, to the east
GardenClyne Gardens4.6 km outside town, to the southMuseumMuseumEgypt Centre3.6 km outside town, to the southeastPhotos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Gowerton.
The heritage lists give each building’s grade but not its age, so we don’t say which is oldest.
20% of its homes were built before 1919, below both West Glamorgan’s towns (27%) and Wales’s towns (27%). For its size, Gowerton has the fewest listed buildings of the towns in West Glamorgan.
Cadw list, October 2026 · Valuation Office Agency, homes by build period · OGL
Between them, three primaries and two secondaries teach 3,054 pupils in Gowerton. Below are three of them, each with why it was picked. Three of them are below, each with the reason it’s listed.
| School | Level | Pupils | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gowerton Primary SchoolLargest primary schoolPrimary | Primary | 342 | – |
| Gowerton SchoolLargest secondary schoolSecondary | Secondary | 1,127 | – |
| Ysgol Gyfun GwyrLargest Welsh-medium schoolSecondary | Secondary | 1,127 | – |
One GP practice serves the town. The nearest A&E to Gowerton is Morriston Hospital, 5 miles away. A disability affects 23% of people locally.
| Census 2021 | Gowerton | West Glamorgan | Wales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good or very good health | 78% | 78% | 78% |
| Bad or very bad health | 7.8% | 7.9% | 7.1% |
| Disabled (Equality Act) | 23% | 23% | 22% |
ONS Census 2021, general health and disability · ONS, life expectancy 2019–23 · OGL · Because the census answers ignore age, a younger population lifts them; that is why the Health Grade is built on age-adjusted measures like life expectancy.
Young adults of 15 to 24 account for 11% of the town. 23% of residents are 65 or over, above West Glamorgan’s towns (21%) and Wales’s towns (21%) alike. Gowerton has a median age of 46.8 years.
51% women, 49% men
About 95 men for every 100 women. Across Wales, 51% of residents are women.
| Gowerton | West Glamorgan | Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 15% | 16% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 11% | 13% | 12% |
| 25–44 | 22% | 24% | 25% |
| 45–64 | 30% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 23% | 21% | 21% |
| No qualifications | 18% | 21% | 20% |
| Apprenticeship | 6.7% | 6.1% | 5.6% |
| A levels or similar | 17% | 18% | 17% |
| Degree level | 32% | 30% | 31% |
ONS Census 2021 · West Glamorgan and Wales: all residents of their built-up areas · OGL
For its size, Gowerton records more crime per resident than 72% of the 1,308 UK towns of 2,500 to 10,000 people. In the 12 months to August 2026, police logged 444 crimes and 62 reports of anti-social behaviour inside the town’s built-up area. Of all the crimes, 52% were violence and sexual offences.
Not gradedAnti-social behaviour, shoplifting and other theft are shown but left out of the Safety Grade, which counts violence and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident.
data.police.uk street-level crime · points inside the ONS built-up-area boundary · OGL · The police category of violence and sexual offences includes harassment and stalking.
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in lockdown, so 25% of workers were mainly at home; shares here are of those who travelled.
Just over one in ten commuters went to work on foot, by bike or by public transport at the census. Gowerton counts 0.7 jobs per working resident. Unemployment benefit claims came to 2.8% of 16 to 64s in 2026, near West Glamorgan’s towns (2.9%) and lower than Wales’s towns (3%).
ONS Census 2021, method of travel and distance to work · ONS small-area income · DWP claimant count · OGL
70% of households own their home, above West Glamorgan’s towns (63%) and Wales’s towns (65%) alike. Half of the 254 standard sales inside Gowerton’s built-up area from September 2023 to August 2026 went for more than £200,000. Social housing holds 17% of households.
| By type | Median | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Detached | £300,000 | 70 |
| Semi-detached | £210,000 | 113 |
| Terraced | £165,000 | 68 |
HM Land Registry Price Paid · ONS private rents · MHCLG / Welsh Government council tax · ONS Census 2021 tenure · OGL
The nearest built-up areas, from ONS’s 2022 boundaries. See them on the map →
| Town | People | Miles | Overall | Cost | Safety | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gowerton | 7,447 | — | C− | B | C | C− |
| Dunvant | 1,732 | 1.2 | — | B− | A+ | B |
| Gorseinon | 14,114 | 1.9 | C | B+ | B− | C− |
| Three Crosses | 1,476 | 1.9 | — | D | A− | B+ |
| Loughor | 4,632 | 2.1 | B− | B+ | B− | C |
| Penllergaer | 3,578 | 2.4 | C+ | C | B+ | C+ |
| Grovesend | 1,148 | 3.1 | — | B+ | A− | C− |
| Pen-clawdd | 1,655 | 3.3 | — | B | A− | B |
Dunvant, Three Crosses, Grovesend and Pen-clawdd have fewer than 2,500 residents, so they get subject grades but no overall grade. People: Census 2021. Miles: centre to centre.
Surface water isn’t included. Check a specific address on Natural Resources Wales’s flood risk service.
Burglary was rare, with 6 reports in the year.
Homes cost less than in most UK towns: the median sale over three years was £200,000, against £277,000 in the typical UK town. By type: terraced houses £165,000, semi-detached houses £210,000 and detached houses £300,000.
Town in West Glamorgan, Wales
Gowerton is a built-up area of 7,447 people, in the Swansea council area. TownRatings uses ONS’s 2022 built-up areas as towns: the physical town, as people mean the word, rather than a council district, so its figures cover the town itself.
Built from ONS geography and Census 2021
Sources: ONS Census 2021, output areas summed to the ONS 2022 built-up area · HM Land Registry Price Paid (standard sales, September 2023 to August 2026) · ONS Price Index of Private Rents (August 2026, by council) · MHCLG and Welsh Government council tax, Band D 2026–27 (with parish precepts in England) · data.police.uk street-level crime, 36 months to August 2026, points inside the built-up-area boundary · ONS small-area life expectancy and healthy life expectancy, 2019 to 2023 (England and Wales), OHID Fingertips small-area indicators (England) and Census 2021 health, adjusted for age · ONS small-area income estimates (financial year ending 2023) · DWP claimant count via Nomis (January to August 2026) · Cadw listed buildings, scheduled monuments and registered historic parks and gardens via DataMapWales, October 2026, inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary · Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties by build period (31 March 2025) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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