COWBRIDGE ROAD EAST, CF5 1BA House Prices & Local Information

CF5 1BA is an accessible, working-class neighbourhood on Cowbridge Road East, 0.5km from Canton in Cardiff. Administratively it sits within Canton ward and the Cardiff West constituency.

For renters and young professionals, CF5 1BA offers a high-density urban area of young, single, transient residents. By day, the area transitions to a professional home-workers in outer suburbs character: ethnically mixed self-employed professional services, home workers in outer suburbs. An average age of 38 puts this squarely in mixed-family territory — professional couples, school-age children households, and established residents all sharing the streets. 41% of homes are privately rented — a strong rental market with good supply for incoming tenants.

Safety: Crime rates are low here at 37 incidents per 1,000 residents — well below average and reassuring for families. Property: Average house prices are around £222k. The Index of Multiple Deprivation places this area in the most deprived 20% nationally — this often means more affordable prices and active local authority investment, but also fewer amenities and higher benefit dependency.

Census 2021 statistics for CF5 1BA are sourced from Output Area W00008868 (shared with 10 postcodes in this micro-neighbourhood). Property prices come from HM Land Registry.