Schools
17 open schools are in scope, including 0 primary and 0 secondary schools. Machen Primary School is the nearest published school at 217 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CF83 8LH
Machen and Rudry · Caerphilly · Wales
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Machen and Rudry
- Local authority
- Caerphilly
- Constituency
- Caerphilly
- Postcode district
- CF83
- Postcode sector
- CF83 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CF83 8LH
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 October 2009
- Terminated
- 1 January 2011
- Postcode area
- CF
- Postcode district
- CF83
- Postcode sector
- CF83 8
- Latitude
- 51.594658
- Longitude
- -3.140774
- British National Grid easting
- 321,076
- British National Grid northing
- 189,040
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- Wales · W92000004
- Region
- W99999999
- Local authority district
- Caerphilly · W06000018
- Electoral ward
- Machen and Rudry · W05001661
- Parish or community
- W04000729
- Westminster constituency
- Caerphilly · W07000088
- Output area
- W00007044
- Lower layer super output area
- Caerphilly 021A · W01001342
- Middle layer super output area
- Caerphilly 021 · W02000310
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 CF83
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 17
- Primary
- 0
- Secondary
- 0
- 217 m
Machen Primary School
Welsh establishment
- 284 m
Wyclif Independent Christian School
Welsh establishment
- 2.0 km
Graig-Y-Rhacca Primary and Nursery Community School
Welsh establishment
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 175
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 73
- Anti social behaviour 27
- Public order 20
- Criminal damage and arson 19
- Burglary 9
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CF83 8 residents
- 10,695
Age bands in CF83 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27%
- Age 65 and over
- 21.1%
1,884 residents
1,062 residents
2,487 residents
2,825 residents
2,203 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.
GP practices
3
within 5 km straight-line
RISCA SURGERY
ST. MARY STREET, RISCA, NEWPORT, NP11 6YS
ODS code W93064
3.3 km
WELLSPRING MEDICAL CENTRE
PARK ROAD, RISCA, NEWPORT, NP11 6BJ
ODS code W93059
3.4 km
TY BRYN SURGERY
THE BRYN, TRETHOMAS, CAERPHILLY, CF83 8GL
ODS code W95008
3.4 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Machen Surgery
BCT · Machen
- 0.1 miles
Machen Surgery
BCT · Machen
- 0.1 miles
Lewis Street
BCT · Machen
- 0.2 miles
Dranllwyn Lane
BCT · Machen
- 0.2 miles
Machen War Memorial
BCT · Machen
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
175 published events cover 12 months, averaging 14.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 73 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.