Schools
8 open schools are in scope, including 0 primary and 0 secondary schools. St Nicholas C.I.W. Primary is the nearest published school at 67 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CF5 6SP
St Nicholas and Llancarfan · Vale of Glamorgan · Wales
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Cardiff
- Local authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Constituency
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Postcode district
- CF5
- Postcode sector
- CF5 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CF5 6SP
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CF
- Postcode district
- CF5
- Postcode sector
- CF5 6
- Latitude
- 51.460868
- Longitude
- -3.311712
- British National Grid easting
- 308,969
- British National Grid northing
- 174,360
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- Wales · W92000004
- Region
- W99999999
- Local authority district
- Vale of Glamorgan · W06000014
- Electoral ward
- St Nicholas and Llancarfan · W05001398
- Parish or community
- W04000672
- Westminster constituency
- Vale of Glamorgan · W07000110
- Output area
- W00010575
- Lower layer super output area
- Vale of Glamorgan 003C · W01001135
- Middle layer super output area
- Vale of Glamorgan 003 · W02000239
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
Property
6 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 1, Church Row, St Nicholas, Cardiff, CF5 6SP | 19 December 2016 | £270,000 |
| 4, Church Row, St Nicholas, Cardiff, CF5 6SP | 16 June 2010 | £205,000 |
| 1, Church Row, St Nicholas, Cardiff, CF5 6SP | 22 June 2008 | £235,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 8
- Primary
- 0
- Secondary
- 0
- 67 m
St Nicholas C.I.W. Primary
Welsh establishment
- 2.3 km
Peterston Super Ely C.I.W. Primary
Welsh establishment
- 3.1 km
St Fagans C.I.W. Primary School
Welsh establishment
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 19
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 6
- Criminal damage and arson 5
- Public order 3
- Other crime 2
- Other theft 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 7
- Postcode households
- 4
- Residents per household
- 1.8
- CF5 6 residents
- 6,516
2 female, 5 male
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
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider CF5 6 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 Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
2
within 5 km
WOODLANDS MEDICAL CENTRE
1 GREENFARM ROAD, CARDIFF, CF5 4RG
ODS code W97023
3.6 km
THE CAERAU LANE SURGERY
DANESCOURT & GREENMOUNT SURGERY, 25 CHURCH ROAD, ELY, CARDIFF, CF5 5LQ
ODS code W97068
4.6 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
- 0.1 miles
St Nicholas
BCT · St Nicholas
- 0.1 miles
St Nicholas
BCT · St Nicholas
- 0.2 miles
Trehill Church
BCT · Tre-hill
- 0.2 miles
Trehill Church
BCT · Tre-hill
- 0.6 miles
Cottrell Park
BCT · Tre-hill
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
19 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 6 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.