Schools
20 open schools are in scope, including 0 primary and 0 secondary schools. Park Lane Special School is the nearest published school at 1 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CF44 8YJ
Aberdare West and Llwydcoed · Rhondda Cynon Taf · Wales
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Rhondda Cynon Taf
- Constituency
- Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare
- Postcode district
- CF44
- Postcode sector
- CF44 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CF44 8YJ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 December 1995
- Terminated
- 1 December 1997
- Postcode area
- CF
- Postcode district
- CF44
- Postcode sector
- CF44 8
- Latitude
- 51.720028
- Longitude
- -3.463115
- British National Grid easting
- 299,028
- British National Grid northing
- 203,380
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- Wales · W92000004
- Region
- W99999999
- Local authority district
- Rhondda Cynon Taf · W06000016
- Electoral ward
- Aberdare West and Llwydcoed · W05001074
- Parish or community
- W04001012
- Westminster constituency
- Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare · W07000099
- Output area
- W00006078
- Lower layer super output area
- Rhondda Cynon Taf 002C · W01001153
- Middle layer super output area
- Rhondda Cynon Taf 002 · W02000253
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 CF44
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 20
- Primary
- 0
- Secondary
- 0
- 1 m
Park Lane Special School
Welsh establishment
- 315 m
Ty Gwyn Education Centres
Welsh establishment
- 333 m
Ysgol G.G. Aberdar
Welsh establishment
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,304
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 586
- Public order 180
- Anti social behaviour 166
- Criminal damage and arson 110
- Shoplifting 61
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CF44 8 residents
- 8,860
Age bands in CF44 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 22%
1,342 residents
962 residents
2,084 residents
2,515 residents
1,944 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
5
within 5 km straight-line
ST JOHN'S MEDICAL PRACTICE
HIGH STREET, ABERDARE, CF44 7DD
ODS code W95001
1.2 km
74 MONK STREET
73-74 MONK STREET, ABERDARE, CF44 7PA
ODS code W95633
1.4 km
CWMAMAN SURGERY
6-14 GLANAMAN ROAD, CWMAMAN, ABERDARE, CF44 6HY
ODS code W95016
4.0 km
HIRWAUN MEDICAL CENTRE
HIGH STREET, HIRWAUN, ABERDARE, CF44 9SL
ODS code W95020
4.1 km
ABERCWMBOI MEDICAL PRACTICE
ABERCWMBOI MEDICAL CENTRE, 1-3 JOHN STREET, ABERCWMBOI, ABERDARE, CF44 6BL
ODS code W95087
5.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Pen Llew Court
BCT · Trecynon
- 0.2 miles
Cledwyn Terrace
BCT · Trecynon
- 0.2 miles
Cledwyn Terrace
BCT · Trecynon
- 0.2 miles
Cherry Drive
BCT · Cwmdare
- 0.2 miles
Sycamore Close
BCT · Cwmdare
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
1,304 published events cover 12 months, averaging 108.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 586 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.