The village is around 3 miles away from Junction 36 on the M4 Motorway, and is located to the west of Llangeinor and to the north of Brynmenyn.

Bettws is located in the southern part of Bridgend County Borough in South Wales.

It is located 4.7 miles (7.6 km) north of the town of Bridgend and lies on the west side of the main A4064 road.

The name of the village comes from the Middle English word bedhus, meaning "prayer house", which became betws in Welsh.

[4] At the United Kingdom level Bettws is in the Welsh parliamentary constituency of Ogmore,[5] for which Chris Elmore (Labour) has been MP since a by-election in 2016 which he won with a majority of 8,575.

[9] Until June 2012 this was Labour councillor Christopher Michaelides; but shortly after finishing his year as county mayor and a month after winning the 2012 elections, he died from cancer.