Schools
16 open schools are in scope, including 0 primary and 0 secondary schools. Craig Y Parc School is the nearest published school at 1.3 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CF5 6GX
Pentyrch and St Fagans · Cardiff · Wales
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Cardiff
- Constituency
- Cardiff West
- Postcode district
- CF5
- Postcode sector
- CF5 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CF5 6GX
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 July 2026
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CF
- Postcode district
- CF5
- Postcode sector
- CF5 6
- Latitude
- 51.508709
- Longitude
- -3.314670
- British National Grid easting
- 308,859
- British National Grid northing
- 179,684
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- Wales · W92000004
- Region
- W99999999
- Local authority district
- Cardiff · W06000015
- Electoral ward
- Pentyrch and St Fagans · W05001287
- Parish or community
- W04000855
- Westminster constituency
- Cardiff West · W07000092
- Output area
- W00008935
- Lower layer super output area
- Cardiff 014A · W01001727
- Middle layer super output area
- Cardiff 014 · W02000380
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 CF5
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 16
- Primary
- 0
- Secondary
- 0
- 2.0 km
Craig Y Parc School
Welsh establishment
- 2.1 km
Creigiau Primary School
Welsh establishment
- 2.4 km
Pentyrch Primary School
Welsh establishment
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 140
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 61
- Public order 28
- Other crime 11
- Criminal damage and arson 10
- Anti social behaviour 8
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CF5 6 residents
- 6,516
Age bands in CF5 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 21.3%
1,088 residents
588 residents
1,676 residents
1,877 residents
1,416 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
1
within 5 km
RADYR MEDICAL CENTRE
RECTORY CLOSE, RADYR, CARDIFF, CF15 8EW
ODS code W97024
4.3 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.4 miles
Robin Hill
BCT · Creigiau
- 0.4 miles
Heol Sant y Nyll
BCT · Capel Llanilltern
- 0.4 miles
Robin Hill
BCT · Creigiau
- 0.6 miles
Broadlands
BCT · Capel Llanilltern
- 0.6 miles
Broadlands
BCT · Capel Llanilltern
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
140 published events cover 12 months, averaging 11.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 61 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.