Schools
26 open schools are in scope, including 0 primary and 0 secondary schools. Ferndale Community School is the nearest published school at 65 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CF43 4AR
Ferndale and Maerdy · Rhondda Cynon Taf · Wales
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Ferndale and Maerdy
- Local authority
- Rhondda Cynon Taf
- Constituency
- Rhondda and Ogmore
- Postcode district
- CF43
- Postcode sector
- CF43 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CF43 4AR
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CF
- Postcode district
- CF43
- Postcode sector
- CF43 4
- Latitude
- 51.669131
- Longitude
- -3.472681
- British National Grid easting
- 298,253
- British National Grid northing
- 197,733
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- Wales · W92000004
- Region
- W99999999
- Local authority district
- Rhondda Cynon Taf · W06000016
- Electoral ward
- Ferndale and Maerdy · W05001082
- Parish or community
- W04000692
- Westminster constituency
- Rhondda and Ogmore · W07000107
- Output area
- W00006328
- Lower layer super output area
- Rhondda Cynon Taf 009D · W01001203
- Middle layer super output area
- Rhondda Cynon Taf 009 · W02000260
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 CF43
Schools
Within 5 km of this postcode
- Open schools
- 26
- Primary
- 0
- Secondary
- 0
- 65 m
Ferndale Community School
Welsh establishment
- 462 m
Ysgol Gynradd Gymraeg Llyn Y Forwyn
Welsh establishment
- 1.9 km
Darran Park Primary School
Welsh establishment
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 375
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 184
- Public order 46
- Anti social behaviour 40
- Criminal damage and arson 31
- Other crime 15
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 2
- 0 female, 2 male
- Postcode households
- 1
- Residents per household
- 2.0
- CF43 4 residents
- 7,144
Age bands in CF43 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.9%
- 1,211 residents
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.2%
- 799 residents
- Age 25 to 44
- 23%
- 1,643 residents
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.3%
- 1,877 residents
- Age 65 and over
- 22.6%
- 1,616 residents
This postcode contained 0% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider CF43 4 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, coverage at January 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
6
within 5 km straight-line
THE MAERDY FERNDALE MGP
FERNDALE MEDICAL CENTRE, 56-58 HIGH STREET, FERNDALE, CF43 4XX
ODS code W95051
1.8 km
CWMAMAN SURGERY
6-14 GLANAMAN ROAD, CWMAMAN, ABERDARE, CF44 6HY
ODS code W95016
2.6 km
THE SURGERY
ST DAVID STREET, TON PENTRE, PENTRE, CF41 7BD
ODS code W95030
3.0 km
FOREST VIEW MEDICAL CENTRE
FOREST VIEW HEALTH, RHONDDA, TREORCHY, CF42 6DL
ODS code W95054
3.1 km
TYLORSTOWN SURGERY
FERNDALE ROAD, TYLORSTOWN, FERNDALE, CF43 3HB
ODS code W95019
4.1 km
ABERCWMBOI MEDICAL PRACTICE
ABERCWMBOI MEDICAL CENTRE, 1-3 JOHN STREET, ABERCWMBOI, ABERDARE, CF44 6BL
ODS code W95087
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 92 m
Glanville Terrace
BCT · Maerdy
- 147 m
Glanville Terrace
BCT · Maerdy
- 300 m
Ferndale Cemetery
BCT · Ferndale
- 321 m
Ferndale Cemetery
BCT · Ferndale
- 482 m
Conservative Club
BCT · Maerdy
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
375 published events cover 12 months, averaging 31 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 184 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.