Schools
16 open schools are in scope, including 0 primary and 0 secondary schools. Pontyclun Primary School is the nearest published school at 459 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CF72 9DQ
Pontyclun Central · Rhondda Cynon Taf · Wales
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Pontyclun
- Ward
- Pontyclun Central
- Local authority
- Rhondda Cynon Taf
- Constituency
- Cardiff West
- Postcode district
- CF72
- Postcode sector
- CF72 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CF72 9DQ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 July 1995
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CF
- Postcode district
- CF72
- Postcode sector
- CF72 9
- Latitude
- 51.524667
- Longitude
- -3.389844
- British National Grid easting
- 303,676
- British National Grid northing
- 181,555
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- Wales · W92000004
- Region
- W99999999
- Local authority district
- Rhondda Cynon Taf · W06000016
- Electoral ward
- Pontyclun Central · W05001097
- Parish or community
- W04000878
- Westminster constituency
- Cardiff West · W07000092
- Output area
- W00006443
- Lower layer super output area
- Rhondda Cynon Taf 031F · W01001226
- Middle layer super output area
- Rhondda Cynon Taf 031 · W02000282
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
30 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Rock Villa, 6, Llantrisant Road, Pontyclun, CF72 9DQ | 13 January 2021 | £425,000 |
| 44, Llantrisant Road, Pontyclun, CF72 9DQ | 22 January 2016 | £255,000 |
| 28, Llantrisant Road, Pontyclun, CF72 9DQ | 1 April 2015 | £165,000 |
Schools
Within 5 km of this postcode
- Open schools
- 16
- Primary
- 0
- Secondary
- 0
- 459 m
Pontyclun Primary School
Welsh establishment
- 770 m
Y Pant Comprehensive School
Welsh establishment
- 1.3 km
Tonysguboriau Primary School
Welsh establishment
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 789
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 251
- Shoplifting 166
- Anti social behaviour 86
- Public order 80
- Other theft 44
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 66
- 31 female, 35 male
- Postcode households
- 30
- Residents per household
- 2.2
- CF72 9 residents
- 16,980
Age bands in CF72 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.3%
- 3,166 residents
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.7%
- 1,593 residents
- Age 25 to 44
- 27.9%
- 4,576 residents
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.9%
- 4,249 residents
- Age 65 and over
- 17.3%
- 2,832 residents
This postcode contained 0.4% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider CF72 9 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+
- 97.6%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 97.6%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 97.6%
- Gigabit-capable
- 97.6%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 97.6%
- 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
OLD SCHOOL SURGERY
SCHOOL STREET, PONTYCLUN, CF72 9AA
ODS code W95025
101 m
NEWPARK SURGERY
TALBOT GREEN GROUP PRACTICE, HEOL-Y-GYFRAITH, TALBOT GREEN, PONTYCLUN, CF72 8AJ
ODS code W95036
1.4 km
Nearby transport
- 13 m
Cwrt Bethel
BCT · Pontyclun
- 24 m
Cwrt Bethel
BCT · Pontyclun
- 161 m
Pontyclun Rail Station
RSE · Pontyclun
- 181 m
Pontyclun Rugby Club
BCT · Pontyclun
- 195 m
Pontyclun Rugby Club
BCT · Pontyclun
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
789 published events cover 12 months, averaging 66 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 251 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.