Schools
17 open schools are in scope, including 0 primary and 0 secondary schools. Machen Primary School is the nearest published school at 368 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
NP1 8NY
Machen and Rudry · Caerphilly · Wales
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Machen and Rudry
- Local authority
- Caerphilly
- Constituency
- Caerphilly
- Postcode district
- NP1
- Postcode sector
- NP1 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NP1 8NY
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 June 1999
- Postcode area
- NP
- Postcode district
- NP1
- Postcode sector
- NP1 8
- Latitude
- 51.594231
- Longitude
- -3.147635
- British National Grid easting
- 320,600
- British National Grid northing
- 189,000
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
- W00007048
- 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
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Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 17
- Primary
- 0
- Secondary
- 0
- 368 m
Machen Primary School
Welsh establishment
- 543 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
- 359
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 155
- Anti social behaviour 56
- Public order 48
- Criminal damage and arson 40
- Burglary 15
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
TY BRYN SURGERY
THE BRYN, TRETHOMAS, CAERPHILLY, CF83 8GL
ODS code W95008
3.0 km
RISCA SURGERY
ST. MARY STREET, RISCA, NEWPORT, NP11 6YS
ODS code W93064
3.6 km
WELLSPRING MEDICAL CENTRE
PARK ROAD, RISCA, NEWPORT, NP11 6BJ
ODS code W93059
3.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Cae Bach
BCT · Machen
- 0.1 miles
The Crescent
BCT · Machen
- 0.1 miles
The Crescent
BCT · Machen
- 0.1 miles
White Hart Drive
BCT · Machen
- 0.2 miles
White Hart Drive
BCT · Machen
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
359 published events cover 12 months, averaging 29.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 155 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.