Property market
The five-year median is £115,000 from 1 recorded sale in NP4 8UH. 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 8UH
Abersychan · Torfaen · Wales
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NP4 8UH
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- NP
- Postcode district
- NP4
- Postcode sector
- NP4 8
- Latitude
- 51.748959
- Longitude
- -3.064782
- British National Grid easting
- 326,590
- British National Grid northing
- 206,121
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- Wales · W92000004
- Region
- W99999999
- Local authority district
- Torfaen · W06000020
- Electoral ward
- Abersychan · W05001361
- Parish or community
- W04000980
- Westminster constituency
- Torfaen · W07000109
- Output area
- W00007757
- Lower layer super output area
- Torfaen 002A · W01001482
- Middle layer super output area
- Torfaen 002 · W02000324
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
11 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 5, Kears Row, Varteg, Pontypool, NP4 8UH | 26 August 2022 | £115,000 |
| 1, Kears Row, Varteg, Pontypool, NP4 8UH | 11 October 2018 | £179,250 |
| Tanglewood Lodge, Kears Row, Varteg, Pontypool, NP4 8UH | 20 February 2017 | £255,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 6
- Primary
- 0
- Secondary
- 0
- 1.3 km
Ysgol Bryn Onnen
Welsh establishment
- 1.3 km
Garnteg Primary School
Welsh establishment
- 2.5 km
Abersychan Comprehensive School
Welsh establishment
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 353
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 125
- Criminal damage and arson 68
- Anti social behaviour 56
- Public order 46
- Shoplifting 16
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 12
- Postcode households
- 9
- Residents per household
- 1.3
- NP4 8 residents
- 8,198
7 female, 5 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 0.1% 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
2
within 5 km
BLAENAVON MEDICAL PRACTICE
MIDDLE COEDCAE ROAD, BLAENAVON, PONTYPOOL, NP4 9AW
ODS code W93015
2.9 km
THE SURGERY
ABERSYCHAN GROUP PRACTICE, OLD ROAD, ABERSYCHAN, PONTYPOOL, NP4 7BH
ODS code W93057
2.9 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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Salisbury Terrace
BCT · Varteg
- 0.0 miles
Salisbury Terrace
BCT · Varteg
- 0.2 miles
Cwmavon Community Centre
BCT · Cwmavon
- 0.2 miles
Cwmavon Community Centre
BCT · Cwmavon
- 0.3 miles
Cwmavon Bridge
BCT · Cwmavon
Evidence in context
Schools
6 open schools are in scope, including 0 primary and 0 secondary schools. Ysgol Bryn Onnen is the nearest published school at 0.8 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
353 published events cover 12 months, averaging 29.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 125 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.