Schools
8 open schools are in scope, including 0 primary and 0 secondary schools. ST Illtyd's is the nearest published school at 2.0 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
NP4 9XU
Blaenavon · Torfaen · Wales
Updated September 2026
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Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NP4 9XU
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1981
- Postcode area
- NP
- Postcode district
- NP4
- Postcode sector
- NP4 9
- Latitude
- 51.782516
- Longitude
- -3.110366
- British National Grid easting
- 323,500
- British National Grid northing
- 209,900
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
- W00007776
- 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
Explore NP4
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 8
- Primary
- 0
- Secondary
- 0
- 3.1 km
ST Illtyd's
Welsh establishment
- 3.5 km
Ystruth Primary
Welsh establishment
- 3.7 km
Coed -y- Garn Primary School
Welsh establishment
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 44
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 17
- Criminal damage and arson 11
- Anti social behaviour 6
- Burglary 2
- Other crime 2
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- NP4 9 residents
- 6,045
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
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
3
within 5 km straight-line
BLAENAVON MEDICAL PRACTICE
MIDDLE COEDCAE ROAD, BLAENAVON, PONTYPOOL, NP4 9AW
ODS code W93015
2.4 km
BLAINA MEDICAL PRACTICE
REAR OF HIGH STREET, BLAINA, ABERTILLERY, NP13 3AT
ODS code W93115
3.9 km
BLAEN-Y-CWM GROUP PRACTICE
BLAENAVON ROAD, BRYNMAWR, EBBW VALE, NP23 4BR
ODS code W93068
4.5 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Upper Garn Institute
BCT · Garn-yr-erw
- 0.1 miles
Upper Garn Institute
BCT · Garn-yr-erw
- 0.3 miles
Furnace Sidings Station
BCT · Garn-yr-erw
- 0.4 miles
Garn-yr-Erw
BCT · Garn-yr-erw
- 0.4 miles
Garn-yr-Erw
BCT · Garn-yr-erw
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
44 published events cover 12 months, averaging 3.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 17 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.