the village consists of a number of modern housing estates (well house drive, coed terfyn, coed y graig), and also housing on penymynydd road (most of which is in penyffordd). penymynydd has one church: st john the baptist's church. a second church formerly existed in the village and has since been redeveloped. st john the baptist's primary school is church aided and takes children between the ages of 3 and 11.