Sandfields West (Welsh: Gorllewin Traethmelyn) is an electoral ward and a community of Neath Port Talbot county borough, Wales.

The community boundaries are coterminous with the electoral ward.

Sandfields West is a mostly urbanised ward consisting of council housing inland, private housing on the coast and areas of light industry and business park use.

At the 2011 UK Census the population of the ward was 6,725 (with 5,214 of voting age).

[1] In the 2012 local council elections, the electorate turnout was 35.47%.