Schools
15 open schools are in scope, including 0 primary and 0 secondary schools. Penygawsi Primary School is the nearest published school at 451 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CF72 8RP
Llantrisant and Talbot Green · Rhondda Cynon Taf · Wales
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Rhondda Cynon Taf
- Constituency
- Pontypridd
- Postcode district
- CF72
- Postcode sector
- CF72 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CF72 8RP
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 July 1995
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CF
- Postcode district
- CF72
- Postcode sector
- CF72 8
- Latitude
- 51.533444
- Longitude
- -3.376861
- British National Grid easting
- 304,595
- British National Grid northing
- 182,514
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
- W00006529
- Lower layer super output area
- Rhondda Cynon Taf 030E · W01001243
- 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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 15
- Primary
- 0
- Secondary
- 0
- 451 m
Penygawsi Primary School
Welsh establishment
- 595 m
Y Pant Comprehensive School
Welsh establishment
- 800 m
Tonysguboriau Primary School
Welsh establishment
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 901
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 281
- Shoplifting 176
- Anti social behaviour 106
- Public order 96
- Other theft 54
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CF72 8 residents
- 10,893
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
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+
- 73.3%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 73.3%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 73.3%
- Gigabit-capable
- 73.3%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 6.7%
- Next Generation Access
- 73.3%
- 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 straight-line
NEWPARK SURGERY
TALBOT GREEN GROUP PRACTICE, HEOL-Y-GYFRAITH, TALBOT GREEN, PONTYCLUN, CF72 8AJ
ODS code W95036
540 m
OLD SCHOOL SURGERY
SCHOOL STREET, PONTYCLUN, CF72 9AA
ODS code W95025
1.4 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Glamorgan Vale Retail Park
BCT · Talbot Green
- 0.1 miles
Tesco
BCT · Talbot Green
- 0.3 miles
Westhill Drive
BCT · Cross Inn
- 0.4 miles
Heol Pen y Parc
BCT · Llantrisant
- 0.4 miles
Llantrisant Leisure Centre
BCT · Talbot Green
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
901 published events cover 12 months, averaging 75.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 281 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.