Schools
17 open schools are in scope, including 0 primary and 0 secondary schools. Machen Primary School is the nearest published school at 600 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CF83 8QE
Machen and Rudry · Caerphilly · Wales
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Caerphilly
- 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 8QE
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 June 1999
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CF
- Postcode district
- CF83
- Postcode sector
- CF83 8
- Latitude
- 51.599353
- Longitude
- -3.149829
- British National Grid easting
- 320,457
- British National Grid northing
- 189,572
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
- W00007025
- Lower layer super output area
- Caerphilly 021B · W01001343
- 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
Property
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Maes Y Ffynnon, Ty Canol Lane, Machen, Caerphilly, CF83 8QE | 10 April 2000 | £263,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 17
- Primary
- 0
- Secondary
- 0
- 600 m
Machen Primary School
Welsh establishment
- 633 m
Wyclif Independent Christian School
Welsh establishment
- 1.5 km
Graig-Y-Rhacca Primary and Nursery Community School
Welsh establishment
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 321
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 145
- Anti social behaviour 44
- Public order 43
- Criminal damage and arson 37
- Burglary 14
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 21
- Postcode households
- 10
- Residents per household
- 2.1
- CF83 8 residents
- 10,695
14 female, 7 male
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
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider CF83 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+
- 81.8%
- 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
- 18.2%
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
3
within 5 km straight-line
TY BRYN SURGERY
THE BRYN, TRETHOMAS, CAERPHILLY, CF83 8GL
ODS code W95008
2.9 km
RISCA SURGERY
ST. MARY STREET, RISCA, NEWPORT, NP11 6YS
ODS code W93064
3.4 km
WELLSPRING MEDICAL CENTRE
PARK ROAD, RISCA, NEWPORT, NP11 6BJ
ODS code W93059
3.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.3 miles
White Hart Drive
BCT · Machen
- 0.3 miles
White Hart Drive
BCT · Machen
- 0.3 miles
Cae Bach
BCT · Machen
- 0.3 miles
The Crescent
BCT · Machen
- 0.3 miles
The Crescent
BCT · Machen
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
321 published events cover 12 months, averaging 26.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 145 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.