Schools
14 open schools are in scope, including 0 primary and 0 secondary schools. Ysgol T. Gwynn Jones is the nearest published school at 549 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LL29 8YJ
Colwyn · Conwy · Wales
Updated September 2026
Compare this postcodeLocation overview
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- Post town
- Colwyn Bay
- Ward
- Colwyn
- Local authority
- Conwy
- Constituency
- Clwyd North
- Postcode district
- LL29
- Postcode sector
- LL29 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LL29 8YJ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 December 1995
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- LL
- Postcode district
- LL29
- Postcode sector
- LL29 8
- Latitude
- 53.287058
- Longitude
- -3.689176
- British National Grid easting
- 287,491
- British National Grid northing
- 378,006
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- Wales · W92000004
- Region
- W99999999
- Local authority district
- Conwy · W06000003
- Electoral ward
- Colwyn · W05001407
- Parish or community
- W04000134
- Westminster constituency
- Clwyd North · W07000095
- Output area
- W00000680
- Lower layer super output area
- Conwy 009A · W01000126
- Middle layer super output area
- Conwy 009 · W02000035
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 LL29
Property
4 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 2, Heightside Gardens, Old Colwyn, Colwyn Bay, LL29 8YJ | 10 January 2005 | £245,000 |
| 2, Heightside Gardens, Old Colwyn, Colwyn Bay, LL29 8YJ | 14 April 2004 | £283,000 |
| 2, Heightside Gardens, Old Colwyn, Colwyn Bay, LL29 8YJ | 16 September 2002 | £240,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 14
- Primary
- 0
- Secondary
- 0
- 549 m
Ysgol T. Gwynn Jones
Welsh establishment
- 626 m
Conwy Education Centre
Welsh establishment
- 963 m
Old Colwyn Junior C.P. School
Welsh establishment
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,062
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 515
- Anti social behaviour 176
- Criminal damage and arson 85
- Public order 73
- Shoplifting 60
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 8
- Postcode households
- 3
- Residents per household
- 2.7
- LL29 8 residents
- 6,877
5 female, 3 male
Age bands in LL29 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 21.3%
1,282 residents
793 residents
1,697 residents
2,001 residents
1,562 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider LL29 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+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 100%
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
CADWGAN SURGERY
11 BODELWYDDAN AVENUE, OLD COLWYN, COLWYN BAY, LL29 9NP
ODS code W91007
341 m
WEST END MEDICAL CENTRE
CONWAY ROAD, COLWYN BAY, LL29 7LS
ODS code W91048
3.7 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Penn Court
BCT · Old Colwyn
- 0.1 miles
Parc Cambria
BCT · Old Colwyn
- 0.1 miles
Lyndale Hotel
BCT · Old Colwyn
- 0.2 miles
Queen`s Court
BCT · Old Colwyn
- 0.2 miles
Wynn Gardens
BCT · Old Colwyn
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
1,062 published events cover 12 months, averaging 88.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 515 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.