Property market
The five-year median is £160,000 from 1 recorded sale in CF36 5BE. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Bridgend is £207,546 in June 2026, up 3.1% year on year.
CF36 5BE
Porthcawl East Central · Bridgend · Wales
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CF36 5BE
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CF
- Postcode district
- CF36
- Postcode sector
- CF36 5
- Latitude
- 51.483379
- Longitude
- -3.685723
- British National Grid easting
- 283,045
- British National Grid northing
- 177,395
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- Wales · W92000004
- Region
- W99999999
- Local authority district
- Bridgend · W06000013
- Electoral ward
- Porthcawl East Central · W05001251
- Parish or community
- W04000645
- Westminster constituency
- Bridgend · W07000086
- Output area
- W00005458
- Lower layer super output area
- Bridgend 019B · W01001030
- Middle layer super output area
- Bridgend 019 · W02000236
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
22 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 281, New Road, Porthcawl, CF36 5BE | 13 April 2022 | £160,000 |
| 297b, New Road, Porthcawl, CF36 5BE | 24 July 2019 | £145,000 |
| 299b, New Road, Porthcawl, CF36 5BE | 11 January 2018 | £143,500 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 10
- Primary
- 0
- Secondary
- 0
- 495 m
Porthcawl Primary School
Welsh establishment
- 591 m
Newton Primary School
Welsh establishment
- 1.5 km
Nottage Primary School
Welsh establishment
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,042
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 402
- Shoplifting 166
- Public order 111
- Anti social behaviour 106
- Criminal damage and arson 71
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 37
- Postcode households
- 19
- Residents per household
- 1.9
- CF36 5 residents
- 6,792
18 female, 19 male
Age bands in CF36 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 12.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 17.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 31%
- Age 65 and over
- 29.2%
822 residents
642 residents
1,170 residents
2,054 residents
1,937 residents
This postcode contained 0.5% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider CF36 5 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
PORTHCAWL MEDICAL
PORTHCAWL MEDICAL CENTRE, CLOS Y MAMETZ, PORTHCAWL, CF36 5DJ
ODS code W95041
220 m
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
St John`s Drive
BCT · Newton
- 0.2 miles
Nottage Road
BCT · Newton
- 0.2 miles
The Globe
BCT · Newton
- 0.2 miles
The Globe
BCT · Newton
- 0.2 miles
Nottage Road
BCT · Newton
Evidence in context
Schools
10 open schools are in scope, including 0 primary and 0 secondary schools. Porthcawl Primary School is the nearest published school at 495 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
1,042 published events cover 12 months, averaging 86.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 402 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.