Schools
16 open schools are in scope, including 0 primary and 0 secondary schools. Penygawsi Primary School is the nearest published school at 152 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CF72 8DS
Llantrisant and Talbot Green · Rhondda Cynon Taf · Wales
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Pontyclun
- Local authority
- Rhondda Cynon Taf
- Constituency
- Pontypridd
- Postcode district
- CF72
- Postcode sector
- CF72 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CF72 8DS
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 July 1995
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CF
- Postcode district
- CF72
- Postcode sector
- CF72 8
- Latitude
- 51.537397
- Longitude
- -3.370996
- British National Grid easting
- 305,010
- British National Grid northing
- 182,946
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- Wales · W92000004
- Region
- W99999999
- Local authority district
- Rhondda Cynon Taf · W06000016
- Electoral ward
- Llantrisant and Talbot Green · W05001089
- Parish or community
- W04001014
- Westminster constituency
- Pontypridd · W07000106
- Output area
- W00006286
- Lower layer super output area
- Rhondda Cynon Taf 030A · W01001193
- Middle layer super output area
- Rhondda Cynon Taf 030 · W02000281
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 CF72
Property
6 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 8, Long Acre Close, Llantrisant, Pontyclun, CF72 8DS | 20 September 2018 | £199,950 |
| 1, Long Acre Close, Llantrisant, Pontyclun, CF72 8DS | 20 April 2018 | £215,000 |
| Tookays, Long Acre Close, Llantrisant, Pontyclun, CF72 8DS | 31 May 2013 | £290,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 16
- Primary
- 0
- Secondary
- 0
- 152 m
Penygawsi Primary School
Welsh establishment
- 617 m
YGGG Llantrisant
Welsh establishment
- 989 m
Llantrisant Primary
Welsh establishment
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 776
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 240
- Shoplifting 165
- Anti social behaviour 89
- Public order 80
- Other theft 46
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 30
- Postcode households
- 9
- Residents per household
- 3.3
- CF72 8 residents
- 10,893
13 female, 17 male
Age bands in CF72 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 21.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 23%
1,863 residents
1,061 residents
2,388 residents
3,261 residents
2,561 residents
This postcode contained 0.3% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider CF72 8 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
3
within 5 km
NEWPARK SURGERY
TALBOT GREEN GROUP PRACTICE, HEOL-Y-GYFRAITH, TALBOT GREEN, PONTYCLUN, CF72 8AJ
ODS code W95036
858 m
OLD SCHOOL SURGERY
SCHOOL STREET, PONTYCLUN, CF72 9AA
ODS code W95025
2.0 km
PARC CANOL SURGERY
CENTRAL PARK, CHURCH VILLAGE, PONTYPRIDD, CF38 1RJ
ODS code W95011
5.0 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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Heol Pen y Parc
BCT · Llantrisant
- 0.1 miles
Southgate Avenue
BCT · Cross Inn
- 0.1 miles
Greenlands Road
BCT · Cross Inn
- 0.1 miles
Westhill Drive
BCT · Cross Inn
- 0.1 miles
Penny Farthing
BCT · Cross Inn
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
776 published events cover 12 months, averaging 64.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 240 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.