Schools
5 open schools are in scope, including 0 primary and 0 secondary schools. Rhws Primary School is the nearest published school at 1.4 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CF62 3BR
Rhoose · Vale of Glamorgan · Wales
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Barry
- Ward
- Rhoose
- Local authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Constituency
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Postcode district
- CF62
- Postcode sector
- CF62 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CF62 3BR
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1993
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CF
- Postcode district
- CF62
- Postcode sector
- CF62 3
- Latitude
- 51.408795
- Longitude
- -3.356649
- British National Grid easting
- 305,740
- British National Grid northing
- 168,626
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- Wales · W92000004
- Region
- W99999999
- Local authority district
- Vale of Glamorgan · W06000014
- Electoral ward
- Rhoose · W05001395
- Parish or community
- W04000667
- Westminster constituency
- Vale of Glamorgan · W07000110
- Output area
- W00005906
- Lower layer super output area
- Vale of Glamorgan 003B · W01001119
- 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 CF62
Property
3 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 1, Cwm Cottages, Penmark, Barry, CF62 3BR | 25 March 2021 | £345,000 |
| 1, Cwm Cottages, Penmark, Barry, CF62 3BR | 1 August 2003 | £235,000 |
| 2, Cwm Cottages, Penmark, Barry, CF62 3BR | 8 October 1999 | £189,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 5
- Primary
- 0
- Secondary
- 0
- 2.3 km
Rhws Primary School
Welsh establishment
- 2.5 km
South Point Primary School
Welsh establishment
- 3.9 km
St Athan Primary School
Welsh establishment
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 6
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Other crime 2
- Criminal damage and arson 2
- Burglary 1
- Public order 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 4
- Postcode households
- 2
- Residents per household
- 2.0
- CF62 3 residents
- 7,391
2 female, 2 male
Age bands in CF62 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 21.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 22.1%
1,156 residents
675 residents
1,530 residents
2,204 residents
1,577 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider CF62 3 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+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 100%
- Next Generation Access
- 0%
- 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
1
within 5 km
ST ATHAN MEDICAL FACILITY
ST ATHAN MEDICAL FACILTY, ST ATHAN, BARRY, CF62 4WA
ODS code W00198
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
- 0.1 miles
Crofthead
BCT · Penmark
- 0.7 miles
BAMC
BCT · Cardiff Airport
- 0.7 miles
BAMC
BCT · Cardiff Airport
- 0.7 miles
Vale Show Ground
BCT · Fonmon
- 0.9 miles
Fonmon Village
BCT · Fonmon
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
6 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Other crime with 2 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.