Schools
6 open schools are in scope, including 0 primary and 0 secondary schools. Ysgol Pentreuchaf is the nearest published school at 743 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LL53 8DQ
Efailnewydd a Buan · Gwynedd · Wales
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Pwllheli
- Ward
- Efailnewydd a Buan
- Local authority
- Gwynedd
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd
- Postcode district
- LL53
- Postcode sector
- LL53 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LL53 8DQ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- LL
- Postcode district
- LL53
- Postcode sector
- LL53 8
- Latitude
- 52.921982
- Longitude
- -4.450445
- British National Grid easting
- 235,360
- British National Grid northing
- 338,873
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- Wales · W92000004
- Region
- W99999999
- Local authority district
- Gwynedd · W06000002
- Electoral ward
- Efailnewydd a Buan · W05001533
- Parish or community
- W04000084
- Westminster constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd · W07000096
- Output area
- W00000358
- Lower layer super output area
- Gwynedd 012A · W01000070
- Middle layer super output area
- Gwynedd 012 · W02000021
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 LL53
Property
2 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Baron Hill, Pentre Uchaf, Pwllheli, LL53 8DQ | 12 April 2005 | £290,000 |
| Pandy, Pentre Uchaf, Pwllheli, LL53 8DQ | 12 December 1997 | £56,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 6
- Primary
- 0
- Secondary
- 0
- 743 m
Ysgol Pentreuchaf
Welsh establishment
- 4.4 km
Ysgol Bro Plenydd
Welsh establishment
- 4.4 km
Ysgol Hafod Lon
Welsh establishment
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 5
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2
- Burglary 1
- Other crime 1
- Anti social behaviour 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 7
- Postcode households
- 3
- Residents per household
- 2.3
- LL53 8 residents
- 3,414
5 female, 2 male
Age bands in LL53 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 19.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29%
- Age 65 and over
- 25.6%
633 residents
374 residents
767 residents
1,132 residents
1,001 residents
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider LL53 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+
- 33.3%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 33.3%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 33.3%
- Gigabit-capable
- 33.3%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 66.7%
- Next Generation Access
- 33.3%
- 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 Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
1
within 5 km straight-line
TREFLAN
LOWER CARDIFF ROAD, PWLLHELI, LL53 5NF
ODS code W94011
4.4 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Pentreuchaf
BCT · Pentreuchaf
- 0.2 miles
Pentreuchaf
BCT · Pentreuchaf
- 0.5 miles
Pentreuchaf
BCT · Pentreuchaf
- 0.5 miles
Pentreuchaf
BCT · Pentreuchaf
- 1.0 miles
Penlleiaiu
BCT · Llannor
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
5 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.