Schools
16 open schools are in scope, including 0 primary and 0 secondary schools. Penywaun Primary School is the nearest published school at 286 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CF44 9BD
Pen-y-waun · Rhondda Cynon Taf · Wales
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Aberdare
- Ward
- Pen-y-waun
- Local authority
- Rhondda Cynon Taf
- Constituency
- Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare
- Postcode district
- CF44
- Postcode sector
- CF44 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CF44 9BD
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CF
- Postcode district
- CF44
- Postcode sector
- CF44 9
- Latitude
- 51.730917
- Longitude
- -3.476035
- British National Grid easting
- 298,160
- British National Grid northing
- 204,609
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- Wales · W92000004
- Region
- W99999999
- Local authority district
- Rhondda Cynon Taf · W06000016
- Electoral ward
- Pen-y-waun · W05001096
- Parish or community
- W04000697
- Westminster constituency
- Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare · W07000099
- Output area
- W00006421
- Lower layer super output area
- Rhondda Cynon Taf 001E · W01001222
- Middle layer super output area
- Rhondda Cynon Taf 001 · W02000252
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
Property
3 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 57, Heol Caradoc, Aberdare, CF44 9BD | 22 November 2019 | £59,950 |
| 44, Heol Caradoc, Aberdare, CF44 9BD | 5 October 2010 | £40,000 |
| 50, Heol Caradoc, Aberdare, CF44 9BD | 31 March 2003 | £26,000 |
Schools
Within 5 km of this postcode
- Open schools
- 16
- Primary
- 0
- Secondary
- 0
- 286 m
Penywaun Primary School
Welsh establishment
- 980 m
Maesgwyn Special School
Welsh establishment
- 1.2 km
Llwydcoed Primary
Welsh establishment
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 713
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 358
- Anti social behaviour 92
- Public order 82
- Criminal damage and arson 55
- Other theft 30
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 87
- 49 female, 38 male
- Postcode households
- 31
- Residents per household
- 2.8
- CF44 9 residents
- 9,244
Age bands in CF44 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.3%
- 1,712 residents
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.4%
- 974 residents
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.6%
- 2,112 residents
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.1%
- 2,434 residents
- Age 65 and over
- 22.5%
- 2,101 residents
This postcode contained 0.9% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider CF44 9 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
3
within 5 km straight-line
ST JOHN'S MEDICAL PRACTICE
HIGH STREET, ABERDARE, CF44 7DD
ODS code W95001
2.7 km
HIRWAUN MEDICAL CENTRE
HIGH STREET, HIRWAUN, ABERDARE, CF44 9SL
ODS code W95020
2.7 km
74 MONK STREET
73-74 MONK STREET, ABERDARE, CF44 7PA
ODS code W95633
2.9 km
Nearby transport
- 64 m
Heol Caradoc
BCT · Pen-y-waun
- 109 m
Heol Silyn
BCT · Pen-y-waun
- 147 m
Heol Cradoc
BCT · Pen-y-waun
- 347 m
Maesycwmrig
BCT · Pen-y-waun
- 358 m
Maesycwmrig
BCT · Pen-y-waun
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
713 published events cover 12 months, averaging 59 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 358 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.