Schools
7 open schools are in scope, including 0 primary and 0 secondary schools. Newton Primary School is the nearest published school at 129 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CF36 5BS
Porthcawl East Central · Bridgend · Wales
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CF36 5BS
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CF
- Postcode district
- CF36
- Postcode sector
- CF36 5
- Latitude
- 51.480984
- Longitude
- -3.694664
- British National Grid easting
- 282,418
- British National Grid northing
- 177,143
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
- W00005540
- Lower layer super output area
- Bridgend 019D · W01001045
- 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
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Property
2 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Sandy Croft, Bungalow Avenue, Porthcawl, CF36 5BS | 26 May 2017 | £186,950 |
| Sandy Croft, Bungalow Avenue, Porthcawl, CF36 5BS | 16 April 2004 | £100,750 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 7
- Primary
- 0
- Secondary
- 0
- 129 m
Newton Primary School
Welsh establishment
- 590 m
Porthcawl Primary School
Welsh establishment
- 907 m
Nottage Primary School
Welsh establishment
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,101
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 431
- Shoplifting 166
- Public order 124
- Anti social behaviour 106
- Criminal damage and arson 79
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 7
- Postcode households
- 2
- Residents per household
- 3.5
- CF36 5 residents
- 6,792
4 female, 3 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 0.1% 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
749 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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Griffin Park
BCT · Porthcawl
- 0.2 miles
Griffin Park
BCT · Porthcawl
- 0.2 miles
Northways
BCT · Porthcawl
- 0.2 miles
Parc-y-Berllan
BCT · Porthcawl
- 0.2 miles
Woodland Avenue
BCT · Porthcawl
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
1,101 published events cover 12 months, averaging 91.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 431 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.