Schools
15 open schools are in scope, including 0 primary and 0 secondary schools. Risca Primary School is the nearest published school at 198 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
NP11 6DQ
Risca West · Caerphilly · Wales
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Risca West
- Local authority
- Caerphilly
- Constituency
- Newport West and Islwyn
- Postcode district
- NP11
- Postcode sector
- NP11 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NP11 6DQ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 June 1999
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- NP
- Postcode district
- NP11
- Postcode sector
- NP11 6
- Latitude
- 51.609050
- Longitude
- -3.105523
- British National Grid easting
- 323,542
- British National Grid northing
- 190,603
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- Wales · W92000004
- Region
- W99999999
- Local authority district
- Caerphilly · W06000018
- Electoral ward
- Risca West · W05001672
- Parish or community
- W04000914
- Westminster constituency
- Newport West and Islwyn · W07000105
- Output area
- W00007383
- Lower layer super output area
- Caerphilly 017A · W01001411
- Middle layer super output area
- Caerphilly 017 · W02000306
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 NP11
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 15
- Primary
- 0
- Secondary
- 0
- 198 m
Risca Primary School
Welsh establishment
- 923 m
Ty Sign Primary School
Welsh establishment
- 1.0 km
Pentwynmawr Primary School
Welsh establishment
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 975
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 409
- Anti social behaviour 145
- Public order 114
- Criminal damage and arson 85
- Other theft 48
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 8
- Postcode households
- 6
- Residents per household
- 1.3
- NP11 6 residents
- 10,683
5 female, 3 male
Age bands in NP11 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 20.6%
1,771 residents
1,067 residents
2,724 residents
3,098 residents
2,243 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider NP11 6 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
- 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
3
within 5 km straight-line
RISCA SURGERY
ST. MARY STREET, RISCA, NEWPORT, NP11 6YS
ODS code W93064
699 m
WELLSPRING MEDICAL CENTRE
PARK ROAD, RISCA, NEWPORT, NP11 6BJ
ODS code W93059
749 m
ST. LUKE'S SURGERY
ST LUKES SURGERY, (OFF GWYDDON ROAD), ABERCARN NEWBRIDGE, NEWPORT, NP11 5GX
ODS code W93001
4.7 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Spar
BCT · Risca
- 0.2 miles
Moriah Baptist Church
BCT · Risca
- 0.3 miles
Top Club
BCT · Risca
- 0.3 miles
Top Club
BCT · Risca
- 0.4 miles
Public Hall
BCT · Risca
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
975 published events cover 12 months, averaging 81.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 409 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.