Schools
10 open schools are in scope, including 0 primary and 0 secondary schools. Nottage Primary School is the nearest published school at 521 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CF36 3JN
Porthcawl West Central · Bridgend · Wales
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CF36 3JN
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CF
- Postcode district
- CF36
- Postcode sector
- CF36 3
- Latitude
- 51.486841
- Longitude
- -3.701954
- British National Grid easting
- 281,927
- British National Grid northing
- 177,806
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- Wales · W92000004
- Region
- W99999999
- Local authority district
- Bridgend · W06000013
- Electoral ward
- Porthcawl West Central · W05001252
- Parish or community
- W04000645
- Westminster constituency
- Bridgend · W07000086
- Output area
- W00005551
- Lower layer super output area
- Bridgend 018D · W01001047
- Middle layer super output area
- Bridgend 018 · W02000235
Postcode source versions
- Ordnance Survey: Code-Point Open Version 2026-08 · Current postcode units in Great Britain · OGL-3.0
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory Version 2026-08 · United Kingdom; Northern Ireland excluded pending rights review; Crown Dependencies outside product scope · OGL-3.0 with third-party rights
- Ordnance Survey: Boundary-Line Version 2026-05 · Local-authority boundaries in Great Britain · OS OpenData Licence
Explore CF36
Property
11 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 4, De Berclos, Porthcawl, CF36 3JN | 12 October 2020 | £372,500 |
| 5, De Berclos, Porthcawl, CF36 3JN | 19 August 2020 | £400,000 |
| 1, De Berclos, Porthcawl, CF36 3JN | 19 June 2015 | £315,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 10
- Primary
- 0
- Secondary
- 0
- 521 m
Nottage Primary School
Welsh establishment
- 633 m
West Park Primary School
Welsh establishment
- 729 m
Porthcawl Primary School
Welsh establishment
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,098
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 434
- Shoplifting 166
- Public order 117
- Anti social behaviour 104
- Criminal damage and arson 84
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 30
- Postcode households
- 12
- Residents per household
- 2.5
- CF36 3 residents
- 9,158
13 female, 17 male
Age bands in CF36 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 11.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 16.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 35%
1,055 residents
735 residents
1,484 residents
2,685 residents
3,207 residents
This postcode contained 0.3% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider CF36 3 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
Small counts are adjusted for privacy, so totals can differ slightly between Census tables.
Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
1
within 5 km straight-line
PORTHCAWL MEDICAL
PORTHCAWL MEDICAL CENTRE, CLOS Y MAMETZ, PORTHCAWL, CF36 5DJ
ODS code W95041
1.1 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
South Road
BCT · Porthcawl
- 0.1 miles
South Road
BCT · Porthcawl
- 0.1 miles
De Turberville Close
BCT · Nottage
- 0.1 miles
De Turberville Close
BCT · Nottage
- 0.1 miles
Forge
BCT · Nottage
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
1,098 published events cover 12 months, averaging 91.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 434 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.