Schools
14 open schools are in scope, including 0 primary and 0 secondary schools. Fochriw Primary School is the nearest published school at 1.2 km.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CF81 9AP
Darran Valley · Caerphilly · Wales
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Darran Valley
- Local authority
- Caerphilly
- Constituency
- Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney
- Postcode district
- CF81
- Postcode sector
- CF81 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CF81 9AP
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 2023
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CF
- Postcode district
- CF81
- Postcode sector
- CF81 9
- Latitude
- 51.731418
- Longitude
- -3.297261
- British National Grid easting
- 310,507
- British National Grid northing
- 204,430
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- Wales · W92000004
- Region
- W99999999
- Local authority district
- Caerphilly · W06000018
- Electoral ward
- Darran Valley · W05001657
- Parish or community
- W04000735
- Westminster constituency
- Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney · W07000084
- Output area
- W00007130
- Lower layer super output area
- Caerphilly 002A · W01001360
- Middle layer super output area
- Caerphilly 002 · W02000291
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 CF81
Schools
Within 5 km of this postcode
- Open schools
- 14
- Primary
- 0
- Secondary
- 0
- 1.2 km
Fochriw Primary School
Welsh establishment
- 2.2 km
Idris Davies School 3 to 18
Welsh establishment
- 3.0 km
Bryn Awel Primary School
Welsh establishment
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 74
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 41
- Vehicle crime 8
- Anti social behaviour 8
- Public order 6
- Criminal damage and arson 5
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CF81 9 residents
- 8,052
Age bands in CF81 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.4%
- 1,410 residents
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.7%
- 949 residents
- Age 25 to 44
- 25.1%
- 2,035 residents
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.9%
- 2,181 residents
- Age 65 and over
- 18.8%
- 1,523 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+
- 0%
- 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
3
within 5 km straight-line
MEDDYGFA CWM RHYMNI PRACTICE
R.I.H.S.C.C LAWNS INDUSTRIAL ESTATE, RHYMNEY, TREDEGAR, NP22 5PW
ODS code W95081
3.1 km
BROOKSIDE MEDICAL CENTRE
HEOL AFON TAF, TROEDYRHIW, MERTHYR TYDFIL, CF48 4DT
ODS code W95634
4.1 km
MEDDYGFA CWM RHYMNI PRACTICE
WHITE ROSE WAY MEDICAL CENTRE, WHITE ROSE WAY, NEW TREDEGAR, NP24 6EE
ODS code W95080
4.2 km
Nearby transport
- 108 m
Mount Pleasant
BCT · Pentwyn
- 129 m
Mount Pleasant
BCT · Pentwyn
- 683 m
Coronation Crescent
BCT · Fochriw
- 777 m
Heol Iago Playground
BCT · Fochriw
- 829 m
Glan-y-nant
BCT · Fochriw
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
74 published events cover 12 months, averaging 6 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 41 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.