Property market
The five-year median is £144,500 from 2 recorded sales in NP4 8LU. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Torfaen is £199,778 in June 2026, up 1.6% year on year.
NP4 8LU
Pontnewynydd and Snatchwood · Torfaen · Wales
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NP4 8LU
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- NP
- Postcode district
- NP4
- Postcode sector
- NP4 8
- Latitude
- 51.714105
- Longitude
- -3.055104
- British National Grid easting
- 327,202
- British National Grid northing
- 202,235
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- Wales · W92000004
- Region
- W99999999
- Local authority district
- Torfaen · W06000020
- Electoral ward
- Pontnewynydd and Snatchwood · W05001373
- Parish or community
- W04000985
- Westminster constituency
- Torfaen · W07000109
- Output area
- W00007980
- Lower layer super output area
- Torfaen 003B · W01001529
- 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
Explore NP4
Property
12 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 17, Torfaen Terrace, Pontnewynydd, Pontypool, NP4 8LU | 3 October 2025 | £149,000 |
| 18, Torfaen Terrace, Pontnewynydd, Pontypool, NP4 8LU | 17 August 2023 | £140,000 |
| 26, Torfaen Terrace, Pontnewynydd, Pontypool, NP4 8LU | 29 April 2021 | £105,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 11
- Primary
- 0
- Secondary
- 0
- 832 m
Cwmffrwdoer Primary School
Welsh establishment
- 1.2 km
George Street Primary School
Welsh establishment
- 1.3 km
Ysgol Gymraeg Gwynllyw
Welsh establishment
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,656
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 719
- Criminal damage and arson 230
- Anti social behaviour 208
- Public order 178
- Other theft 71
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 59
- Postcode households
- 27
- Residents per household
- 2.2
- NP4 8 residents
- 8,198
34 female, 25 male
Age bands in NP4 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 18.9%
1,641 residents
967 residents
1,947 residents
2,217 residents
1,577 residents
This postcode contained 0.7% 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+
- 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
4
within 5 km
THE SURGERY
ABERSYCHAN GROUP PRACTICE, OLD ROAD, ABERSYCHAN, PONTYPOOL, NP4 7BH
ODS code W93057
1.0 km
PONTYPOOL MEDICAL CENTRE
OFF TOWN BRIDGE PONTYPOOL, CLOS AFON LLWYD, PONTYPOOL, NP4 6DH
ODS code W93058
1.3 km
TROSNANT LODGE
TROSNANT STREET, PONTYPOOL, NP4 8AT
ODS code W93055
2.0 km
PANTEG HEALTH CENTRE
KEMYS STREET, GRIFFITHSTOWN, PONTYPOOL, NP4 5DJ
ODS code W93031
3.9 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Royal Oak
BCT · Freeholdland
- 0.1 miles
Royal Oak
BCT · Freeholdland
- 0.1 miles
Pretoria
BCT · Freeholdland
- 0.1 miles
Pretoria
BCT · Freeholdland
- 0.2 miles
Pontnewynydd Post Office
BCT · Pontnewynydd
Evidence in context
Schools
11 open schools are in scope, including 0 primary and 0 secondary schools. Cwmffrwdoer Primary School is the nearest published school at 832 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
1,656 published events cover 12 months, averaging 138 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 719 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.