Schools
16 open schools are in scope, including 0 primary and 0 secondary schools. Ty Sign Primary School is the nearest published school at 266 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
NP1 6QL
Risca East · Caerphilly · Wales
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Risca East
- Local authority
- Caerphilly
- Constituency
- Newport West and Islwyn
- Postcode district
- NP1
- Postcode sector
- NP1 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NP1 6QL
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 June 1999
- Postcode area
- NP
- Postcode district
- NP1
- Postcode sector
- NP1 6
- Latitude
- 51.607342
- Longitude
- -3.093091
- British National Grid easting
- 324,400
- British National Grid northing
- 190,400
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- Wales · W92000004
- Region
- W99999999
- Local authority district
- Caerphilly · W06000018
- Electoral ward
- Risca East · W05001671
- Parish or community
- W04000913
- Westminster constituency
- Newport West and Islwyn · W07000105
- Output area
- W00007370
- Lower layer super output area
- Caerphilly 016C · W01001409
- Middle layer super output area
- Caerphilly 016 · W02000305
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 NP1
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 16
- Primary
- 0
- Secondary
- 0
- 266 m
Ty Sign Primary School
Welsh establishment
- 297 m
Ty Isaf Infants & Nursery School
Welsh establishment
- 409 m
Pentwynmawr Primary School
Welsh establishment
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,169
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 505
- Anti social behaviour 171
- Public order 132
- Criminal damage and arson 110
- Other theft 62
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- Postcode sector residents
- Not available
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 not available.
GP practices
3
within 5 km straight-line
WELLSPRING MEDICAL CENTRE
PARK ROAD, RISCA, NEWPORT, NP11 6BJ
ODS code W93059
182 m
RISCA SURGERY
ST. MARY STREET, RISCA, NEWPORT, NP11 6YS
ODS code W93064
1.3 km
THE ROGERSTONE PRACTICE
CHAPELWOOD PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, WESTERN VALLEY ROAD, ROGERSTONE, NEWPORT, NP10 9DU
ODS code W93061
4.6 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Risca & Pontymister Rail Station
RLY · Pontymister
- 0.1 miles
Hafod-y-Bryn
BCT · Pontymister
- 0.1 miles
Risca & Pontymister Rail Station
RSE · Pontymister
- 0.1 miles
Hafod-y-Bryn
BCT · Pontymister
- 0.1 miles
Springwell Medical Centre
BCT · Risca
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
1,169 published events cover 12 months, averaging 97.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 505 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.