Property market
The five-year median is £112,000 from 4 recorded sales in NP4 9BU. 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 9BU
Blaenavon · Torfaen · Wales
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NP4 9BU
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 August 1993
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- NP
- Postcode district
- NP4
- Postcode sector
- NP4 9
- Latitude
- 51.771282
- Longitude
- -3.090583
- British National Grid easting
- 324,846
- British National Grid northing
- 208,630
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- Wales · W92000004
- Region
- W99999999
- Local authority district
- Torfaen · W06000020
- Electoral ward
- Blaenavon · W05001362
- Parish or community
- W04000760
- Westminster constituency
- Torfaen · W07000109
- Output area
- W00007772
- Lower layer super output area
- Torfaen 001C · W01001489
- Middle layer super output area
- Torfaen 001 · W02000323
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
21 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 10, Lower Glantorvaen Terrace, Forgeside, Pontypool, NP4 9BU | 15 September 2025 | £132,000 |
| 9, Lower Glantorvaen Terrace, Forgeside, Pontypool, NP4 9BU | 21 February 2025 | £100,000 |
| 19, Lower Glantorvaen Terrace, Forgeside, Pontypool, NP4 9BU | 16 August 2024 | £120,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 4
- Primary
- 0
- Secondary
- 0
- 3.8 km
Ysgol Bryn Onnen
Welsh establishment
- 4.1 km
ST Illtyd's
Welsh establishment
- 4.1 km
Garnteg Primary School
Welsh establishment
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 835
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 333
- Anti social behaviour 151
- Public order 118
- Criminal damage and arson 118
- Other theft 30
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 55
- Postcode households
- 22
- Residents per household
- 2.5
- NP4 9 residents
- 6,045
29 female, 26 male
Age bands in NP4 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 19.5%
1,113 residents
652 residents
1,555 residents
1,529 residents
1,172 residents
This postcode contained 0.9% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider NP4 9 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+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- 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
876 m
BLAINA MEDICAL PRACTICE
REAR OF HIGH STREET, BLAINA, ABERTILLERY, NP13 3AT
ODS code W93115
4.9 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
- 0.1 miles
Glantorfaen House
BCT · Forgeside
- 0.1 miles
Forgeside Inn
BCT · Forgeside
- 0.1 miles
Forgeside Inn
BCT · Forgeside
- 0.2 miles
World Heritage Centre
BCT · Blaenavon
- 0.2 miles
Kennard Crescent
BCT · Blaenavon
Evidence in context
Schools
4 open schools are in scope, including 0 primary and 0 secondary schools. Ysgol Bryn Onnen is the nearest published school at 2.4 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
835 published events cover 12 months, averaging 69.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 333 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.