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.
NP4 8UQ
Abersychan · Torfaen · Wales
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Abersychan
- Local authority
- Torfaen
- Constituency
- Torfaen
- Postcode district
- NP4
- Postcode sector
- NP4 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NP4 8UQ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1983
- Postcode area
- NP
- Postcode district
- NP4
- Postcode sector
- NP4 8
- Latitude
- 51.748758
- Longitude
- -3.066081
- British National Grid easting
- 326,500
- British National Grid northing
- 206,100
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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 6
- Primary
- 0
- Secondary
- 0
- 1.2 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
- 357
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 125
- Criminal damage and arson 69
- Anti social behaviour 56
- Public order 46
- Shoplifting 16
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- NP4 8 residents
- 8,198
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
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.
GP practices
2
within 5 km straight-line
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
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Salisbury Terrace
BCT · Varteg
- 0.0 miles
Salisbury Terrace
BCT · Varteg
- 0.3 miles
Cwmavon Community Centre
BCT · Cwmavon
- 0.3 miles
Cwmavon Community Centre
BCT · Cwmavon
- 0.3 miles
Gladstone Terrace
BCT · Varteg
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
357 published events cover 12 months, averaging 29.75 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.