Schools
6 open schools are in scope, including 0 primary and 0 secondary schools. Y Bontfaen Primary is the nearest published school at 352 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CF71 7YJ
Cowbridge · Vale of Glamorgan · Wales
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Cowbridge
- Local authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Constituency
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Postcode district
- CF71
- Postcode sector
- CF71 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CF71 7YJ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 July 1995
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CF
- Postcode district
- CF71
- Postcode sector
- CF71 7
- Latitude
- 51.462373
- Longitude
- -3.449649
- British National Grid easting
- 299,390
- British National Grid northing
- 174,708
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- Wales · W92000004
- Region
- W99999999
- Local authority district
- Vale of Glamorgan · W06000014
- Electoral ward
- Cowbridge · W05001385
- Parish or community
- W04000652
- Westminster constituency
- Vale of Glamorgan · W07000110
- Output area
- W00005731
- Lower layer super output area
- Vale of Glamorgan 002A · W01001082
- Middle layer super output area
- Vale of Glamorgan 002 · W02000238
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 CF71
Schools
Within 5 km of this postcode
- Open schools
- 6
- Primary
- 0
- Secondary
- 0
- 352 m
Y Bontfaen Primary
Welsh establishment
- 485 m
Ysgol Iolo Morganwg
Welsh establishment
- 846 m
Cowbridge Comprehensive School
Welsh establishment
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 154
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 54
- Anti social behaviour 20
- Public order 19
- Shoplifting 14
- Criminal damage and arson 13
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CF71 7 residents
- 9,573
Age bands in CF71 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.1%
- 1,561 residents
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.4%
- 819 residents
- Age 25 to 44
- 17.6%
- 1,704 residents
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.6%
- 2,773 residents
- Age 65 and over
- 29.3%
- 2,847 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.
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+
- 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, coverage at January 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
2
within 5 km straight-line
COWBRIDGE & VALE MEDICAL PRACTICE
COWBRIDGE HEALTH CENTRE, THE BROADSHOARD, COWBRIDGE, CF71 7DA
ODS code W97038
321 m
WESTERN VALE FAMILY PRACTICE
THE BROADSHOARD, COWBRIDGE, CF71 7DA
ODS code W97052
321 m
Nearby transport
- 123 m
Cowbridge Town Hall
BCT · Cowbridge
- 145 m
Town Hall
BCT · Cowbridge
- 213 m
Cowbridge Town Hall
BCT · Cowbridge
- 300 m
Cowbridge Police Station
BCT · Cowbridge
- 304 m
Cowbridge Police Station
BCT · Cowbridge
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
154 published events cover 12 months, averaging 13 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 54 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.