Least and most affordable places in Wales to buy a home (2025)

Monmouthshire was the least affordable of Wales’s 22 councils in 2025 (house price to pay 7.9×).

Blaenau Gwent was the most affordable (4.1×). The middle council, Wrexham, had 6.1×.

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Compare the two figures
House price to pay for every council in Wales, highest first. Councils without a figure are listed last with the reason.
RankCouncilValue
1Monmouthshire7.9×
2Vale of Glamorgan7.8×
3Cardiff7.4×
4Ceredigion7.0×
=5Isle of Anglesey6.6×
=5Powys6.6×
7Denbighshire6.3×
=8Conwy6.2×
=8Gwynedd6.2×
=8Newport6.2×
11Wrexham6.1×
=12Pembrokeshire5.8×
=12Swansea5.8×
=14Bridgend5.7×
=14Flintshire5.7×
16Caerphilly5.6×
17Carmarthenshire5.2×
18Torfaen5.0×
19Rhondda Cynon Taf4.7×
20Neath Port Talbot4.6×
21Merthyr Tydfil4.2×
22Blaenau Gwent4.1×

Worked out by Open Index from the UK House Price Index and the ONS earnings survey. Source and method · See it on the map