Schools
24 open schools are in scope, including 0 primary and 0 secondary schools. Treorchy Primary School is the nearest published school at 694 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CF42 6ET
Treorchy · Rhondda Cynon Taf · Wales
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Treorchy
- Local authority
- Rhondda Cynon Taf
- Constituency
- Rhondda and Ogmore
- Postcode district
- CF42
- Postcode sector
- CF42 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CF42 6ET
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1994
- Postcode area
- CF
- Postcode district
- CF42
- Postcode sector
- CF42 6
- Latitude
- 51.655893
- Longitude
- -3.500486
- British National Grid easting
- 296,300
- British National Grid northing
- 196,300
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- Wales · W92000004
- Region
- W99999999
- Local authority district
- Rhondda Cynon Taf · W06000016
- Electoral ward
- Treorchy · W05001112
- Parish or community
- W04000708
- Westminster constituency
- Rhondda and Ogmore · W07000107
- Output area
- W00006656
- Lower layer super output area
- Rhondda Cynon Taf 010B · W01001270
- Middle layer super output area
- Rhondda Cynon Taf 010 · W02000261
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 CF42
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 24
- Primary
- 0
- Secondary
- 0
- 694 m
Treorchy Primary School
Welsh establishment
- 812 m
Treorchy Comprehensive School
Welsh establishment
- 1.1 km
Ton Pentre Junior School
Welsh establishment
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 905
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 414
- Public order 110
- Anti social behaviour 101
- Criminal damage and arson 72
- Shoplifting 54
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CF42 6 residents
- 7,372
Age bands in CF42 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 12%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 21.7%
1,152 residents
880 residents
1,725 residents
1,999 residents
1,597 residents
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.
GP practices
8
within 5 km straight-line
FOREST VIEW MEDICAL CENTRE
FOREST VIEW HEALTH, RHONDDA, TREORCHY, CF42 6DL
ODS code W95054
1.5 km
THE SURGERY
ST DAVID STREET, TON PENTRE, PENTRE, CF41 7BD
ODS code W95030
1.5 km
THE MAERDY FERNDALE MGP
FERNDALE MEDICAL CENTRE, 56-58 HIGH STREET, FERNDALE, CF43 4XX
ODS code W95051
3.7 km
SAINT ANDREWS SURGERY
1 DE WINTON STREET, TONYPANDY, CF40 2QZ
ODS code W95062
4.6 km
DE WINTON FIELD PRACTICE
RHONDDA CYNON TAFF, TONYPANDY, CF40 2LE
ODS code W95027
4.6 km
NANTYMOEL SURGERY
OGWY STREET, NANTYMOEL, BRIDGEND, CF32 7NA
ODS code W95645
4.8 km
TYLORSTOWN SURGERY
FERNDALE ROAD, TYLORSTOWN, FERNDALE, CF43 3HB
ODS code W95019
4.9 km
CWMAMAN SURGERY
6-14 GLANAMAN ROAD, CWMAMAN, ABERDARE, CF44 6HY
ODS code W95016
5.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Ysbyty George Thomas
BCT · Treorchy
- 0.2 miles
Lidl
BCT · Treorchy
- 0.2 miles
Lidl
BCT · Treorchy
- 0.2 miles
Pentwyn Hospital
BCT · Pentre
- 0.2 miles
Pentwyn Hospital
BCT · Pentre
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
905 published events cover 12 months, averaging 75.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 414 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.