Schools
14 open schools are in scope, including 0 primary and 0 secondary schools. Penygarn Primary School is the nearest published school at 357 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
NP4 8DA
Trevethin and Penygarn · Torfaen · Wales
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NP4 8DA
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- NP
- Postcode district
- NP4
- Postcode sector
- NP4 8
- Latitude
- 51.706276
- Longitude
- -3.035587
- British National Grid easting
- 328,538
- British National Grid northing
- 201,345
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- Wales · W92000004
- Region
- W99999999
- Local authority district
- Torfaen · W06000020
- Electoral ward
- Trevethin and Penygarn · W05001376
- Parish or community
- W04000773
- Westminster constituency
- Torfaen · W07000109
- Output area
- W00007964
- Lower layer super output area
- Torfaen 003A · W01001525
- Middle layer super output area
- Torfaen 003 · W02000325
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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Property
12 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 35, College Road, Penygarn, Pontypool, NP4 8DA | 25 January 2019 | £110,500 |
| 19, College Road, Penygarn, Pontypool, NP4 8DA | 19 May 2016 | £88,500 |
| 25, College Road, Penygarn, Pontypool, NP4 8DA | 19 May 2014 | £94,000 |
Schools
Within 5 km of this postcode
- Open schools
- 14
- Primary
- 0
- Secondary
- 0
- 357 m
Penygarn Primary School
Welsh establishment
- 445 m
St Alban's R.C. High School
Welsh establishment
- 698 m
George Street Primary School
Welsh establishment
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,940
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 811
- Criminal damage and arson 268
- Anti social behaviour 248
- Public order 197
- Other theft 93
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 46
- 26 female, 20 male
- Postcode households
- 21
- Residents per household
- 2.2
- NP4 8 residents
- 8,198
Age bands in NP4 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.7%
- 1,641 residents
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.6%
- 967 residents
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.3%
- 1,947 residents
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.6%
- 2,217 residents
- Age 65 and over
- 18.9%
- 1,577 residents
This postcode contained 0.6% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider NP4 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+
- 95.7%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 95.7%
- Gigabit-capable
- 95.7%
- 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, coverage at January 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
5
within 5 km straight-line
PONTYPOOL MEDICAL CENTRE
OFF TOWN BRIDGE PONTYPOOL, CLOS AFON LLWYD, PONTYPOOL, NP4 6DH
ODS code W93058
507 m
TROSNANT LODGE
TROSNANT STREET, PONTYPOOL, NP4 8AT
ODS code W93055
720 m
THE SURGERY
ABERSYCHAN GROUP PRACTICE, OLD ROAD, ABERSYCHAN, PONTYPOOL, NP4 7BH
ODS code W93057
2.4 km
PANTEG HEALTH CENTRE
KEMYS STREET, GRIFFITHSTOWN, PONTYPOOL, NP4 5DJ
ODS code W93031
2.6 km
CLARK AVENUE SURGERY
CLARK AVENUE, PONTNEWYDD, CWMBRAN, NP44 1RY
ODS code W93028
4.7 km
Nearby transport
- 87 m
Post Office
BCT · Penygarn
- 137 m
Park Crescent
BCT · Penygarn
- 139 m
Park Crescent
BCT · Penygarn
- 180 m
Park Gardens
BCT · Penygarn
- 206 m
James Street
BCT · Penygarn
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
1,940 published events cover 12 months, averaging 162 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 811 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.