Schools
18 open schools are in scope, including 0 primary and 0 secondary schools. Creigiau Primary School is the nearest published school at 739 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CF72 8FG
Pentyrch and St Fagans · Cardiff · Wales
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Pontyclun
- Local authority
- Cardiff
- Constituency
- Cardiff West
- Postcode district
- CF72
- Postcode sector
- CF72 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CF72 8FG
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 November 2013
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CF
- Postcode district
- CF72
- Postcode sector
- CF72 8
- Latitude
- 51.518644
- Longitude
- -3.332368
- British National Grid easting
- 307,651
- British National Grid northing
- 180,811
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
- W00008937
- 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 CF72
Property
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Smokey Cottage, Tynant Road, Groesfaen, Pontyclun, CF72 8FG | 11 September 2017 | £855,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 18
- Primary
- 0
- Secondary
- 0
- 739 m
Creigiau Primary School
Welsh establishment
- 2.3 km
Craig Y Parc School
Welsh establishment
- 2.5 km
Pentyrch Primary School
Welsh establishment
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 155
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 70
- Public order 25
- Anti social behaviour 13
- Criminal damage and arson 12
- Vehicle crime 8
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 8
- Postcode households
- 1
- Residents per household
- 8.0
- CF72 8 residents
- 10,893
3 female, 5 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 0.1% 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+
- 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
- 33.3%
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 straight-line
NEWPARK SURGERY
TALBOT GREEN GROUP PRACTICE, HEOL-Y-GYFRAITH, TALBOT GREEN, PONTYCLUN, CF72 8AJ
ODS code W95036
4.0 km
OLD SCHOOL SURGERY
SCHOOL STREET, PONTYCLUN, CF72 9AA
ODS code W95025
4.1 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Hill Cottage
BCT · Creigiau
- 0.1 miles
Hill Cottage
BCT · Creigiau
- 0.2 miles
Dol-y-Felin
BCT · Creigiau
- 0.3 miles
Llys Gwynno
BCT · Creigiau
- 0.3 miles
Henstaff Court
BCT · Creigiau
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
155 published events cover 12 months, averaging 12.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 70 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.