PORTMEAD AVENUE, SA5 5QA House Prices & Local Information

SA5 5QA is an accessible, working-class neighbourhood on Portmead Avenue, 0.3km from Port Mead in Swansea. Administratively it sits within Penderry ward and the Swansea East constituency.

An affordable area with active regeneration, SA5 5QA is a high-density area of young ethnic minority families, mostly in flats. Work and footfall patterns mark this as a non-metropolitan suburban areas zone — white, female workforce with low qualifications, working locally. Average age 28 — a clear signal of a student and young renter community, typically with strong café and nightlife culture nearby. 73% of homes are socially rented, reflecting the area's public housing provision and council presence. Full-time employment stands at 14% — below average for the region, consistent with the area's higher deprivation indicators.

Safety: Crime is moderate at 52 incidents per 1,000 residents — broadly typical for this type of urban area. 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 SA5 5QA are sourced from Output Area W00004446 (shared with 8 postcodes in this micro-neighbourhood). Property prices come from HM Land Registry.