Schools
14 open schools are in scope, including 0 primary and 0 secondary schools. Pen-Y-Dre High School is the nearest published school at 982 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CF48 2UY
Dowlais and Pant · Merthyr Tydfil · Wales
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Dowlais and Pant
- Local authority
- Merthyr Tydfil
- Constituency
- Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare
- Postcode district
- CF48
- Postcode sector
- CF48 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CF48 2UY
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CF
- Postcode district
- CF48
- Postcode sector
- CF48 2
- Latitude
- 51.774759
- Longitude
- -3.371584
- British National Grid easting
- 305,465
- British National Grid northing
- 209,344
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- Wales · W92000004
- Region
- W99999999
- Local authority district
- Merthyr Tydfil · W06000024
- Electoral ward
- Dowlais and Pant · W05001618
- Parish or community
- W04000718
- Westminster constituency
- Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare · W07000099
- Output area
- W00006802
- Lower layer super output area
- Merthyr Tydfil 002B · W01001296
- Middle layer super output area
- Merthyr Tydfil 002 · W02000284
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 CF48
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 14
- Primary
- 0
- Secondary
- 0
- 982 m
Pen-Y-Dre High School
Welsh establishment
- 1.1 km
Pantysgallog Primary School
Welsh establishment
- 1.5 km
Gellifaelog Primary School
Welsh establishment
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 996
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 403
- Criminal damage and arson 120
- Public order 99
- Anti social behaviour 68
- Vehicle crime 66
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 3
- Postcode households
- 1
- Residents per household
- 3.0
- CF48 2 residents
- 5,952
2 female, 1 male
Age bands in CF48 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 23.2%
919 residents
608 residents
1,359 residents
1,671 residents
1,373 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider CF48 2 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+
- 66.7%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- 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
5
within 5 km straight-line
MORLAIS MEDICAL PRACTICE
BERRY SQUARE, DOWLAIS, MERTHYR TYDFIL, CF48 3AL
ODS code W95086
1.7 km
PONTCAE MEDICAL PRACTICE
DYNEVOR STREET, GEORGETOWN, MERTHYR TYDFIL, CF48 1YE
ODS code W95072
3.3 km
PRACTICE 1
KEIR HARDIE HEALTH PARK, ABERDARE ROAD, MERTHYR TYDFIL, CF48 1BZ
ODS code W95023
3.4 km
PRACTICE 2
KEIR HARDIE HEALTH PARK, ABERDARE ROAD, MERTHYR TYDFIL, CF48 1BZ
ODS code W95647
3.4 km
PRACTICE 3 KEIR HARDIE HE
KEIR HARDIE HEALTH PARK, ABERDARE ROAD, MERTHYR TYDFIL, CF48 1BZ
ODS code W95005
3.4 km
Nearby transport
- 0.4 miles
Brecon Mountain Railway
BCT · Pant
- 0.4 miles
Mountain Railway Station
BCT · Pant
- 0.4 miles
Cemetery Top Gates
BCT · Pant
- 0.4 miles
Bryniau Road
BCT · Pant
- 0.4 miles
Cemetery Top Gates
BCT · Pant
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
996 published events cover 12 months, averaging 83 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 403 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.