Property market
The five-year median is £237,000 from 3 recorded sales in NP23 8AX. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Blaenau Gwent is £144,603 in June 2026, up 8.9% year on year.
NP23 8AX
Cwm · Blaenau Gwent · Wales
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Ebbw Vale
- Ward
- Cwm
- Local authority
- Blaenau Gwent
- Constituency
- Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney
- Postcode district
- NP23
- Postcode sector
- NP23 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NP23 8AX
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 June 1999
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- NP
- Postcode district
- NP23
- Postcode sector
- NP23 8
- Latitude
- 51.755847
- Longitude
- -3.199193
- British National Grid easting
- 317,324
- British National Grid northing
- 207,031
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- Wales · W92000004
- Region
- W99999999
- Local authority district
- Blaenau Gwent · W06000019
- Electoral ward
- Cwm · W05001260
- Parish or community
- W04000928
- Westminster constituency
- Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney · W07000084
- Output area
- W00007585
- Lower layer super output area
- Blaenau Gwent 007C · W01001452
- Middle layer super output area
- Blaenau Gwent 007 · W02000320
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 NP23
Property
75 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 27, Howards Way, Victoria, Ebbw Vale, NP23 8AX | 28 November 2025 | £235,000 |
| 6, Howards Way, Victoria, Ebbw Vale, NP23 8AX | 1 July 2024 | £390,000 |
| 2, Howards Way, Victoria, Ebbw Vale, NP23 8AX | 12 January 2022 | £237,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 17
- Primary
- 0
- Secondary
- 0
- 1.2 km
Pen-Y-Cwm Special School
Welsh establishment
- 1.6 km
Cwm Primary School
Welsh establishment
- 2.8 km
Georgetown C.P. School
Welsh establishment
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 189
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 70
- Anti social behaviour 27
- Criminal damage and arson 27
- Public order 26
- Vehicle crime 17
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 97
- Postcode households
- 39
- Residents per household
- 2.5
- NP23 8 residents
- 992
49 female, 48 male
Age bands in NP23 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 12.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 21.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 36.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 18.7%
131 residents
128 residents
230 residents
395 residents
203 residents
This postcode contained 9.8% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider NP23 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
- 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
7
within 5 km straight-line
CWM HEALTH CENTRE
CANNING STREET, CWM, EBBW VALE, NP23 7RW
ODS code W93619
1.9 km
BLAINA MEDICAL PRACTICE
REAR OF HIGH STREET, BLAINA, ABERTILLERY, NP13 3AT
ODS code W93115
2.9 km
PEN-Y-CAE SURGERY
THE HEALTH CENTRE, BRIDGE STREET, EBBW VALE, NP23 6EY
ODS code W93623
3.2 km
GLAN YR AFON SURGERY
BEVAN HEALTH & WELLBEING CENTRE, PARK ROW, TREDEGAR, NP22 3NG
ODS code W93065
3.7 km
HEALTH CENTRE
PARK ROW, TREDEGAR, NP22 3NG
ODS code W93063
3.7 km
GLAN RHYD SURGERY
RIVERSIDE, BEAUFORT EBBW VALE, EBBW VALE, NP23 5NT
ODS code W93032
4.5 km
BLAEN-Y-CWM GROUP PRACTICE
BLAENAVON ROAD, BRYNMAWR, EBBW VALE, NP23 4BR
ODS code W93068
4.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Howard`s Way
BCT · Waunllwyd
- 0.1 miles
Brecon Heights
BCT · Waunllwyd
- 0.1 miles
Ebbw Vale Parkway
BCT · Ebbw Vale
- 0.1 miles
Brecon Heights North
BCT · Ebbw Vale
- 0.1 miles
Ebbw Vale Parkway
BCT · Ebbw Vale
Evidence in context
Schools
17 open schools are in scope, including 0 primary and 0 secondary schools. Pen-Y-Cwm Special School is the nearest published school at 0.7 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
189 published events cover 12 months, averaging 15.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 70 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.