Schools
4 open schools are in scope, including 0 primary and 0 secondary schools. Ysgol Y Castell is the nearest published school at 516 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SA17 4BX
Kidwelly and St Ishmael · Carmarthenshire · Wales
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Constituency
- Llanelli
- Postcode district
- SA17
- Postcode sector
- SA17 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SA17 4BX
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 April 2026
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SA
- Postcode district
- SA17
- Postcode sector
- SA17 4
- Latitude
- 51.732734
- Longitude
- -4.304414
- British National Grid easting
- 240,964
- British National Grid northing
- 206,293
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- Wales · W92000004
- Region
- W99999999
- Local authority district
- Carmarthenshire · W06000010
- Electoral ward
- Kidwelly and St Ishmael · W05001198
- Parish or community
- W04000506
- Westminster constituency
- Llanelli · W07000098
- Output area
- W00003612
- Lower layer super output area
- Carmarthenshire 018B · W01000671
- Middle layer super output area
- Carmarthenshire 018 · W02000159
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 SA17
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 4
- Primary
- 0
- Secondary
- 0
- 516 m
Ysgol Y Castell
Welsh establishment
- 527 m
Ysgol Gwenllian
Welsh establishment
- 2.6 km
Ysgol G. Mynyddygarreg
Welsh establishment
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 228
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 107
- Criminal damage and arson 34
- Anti social behaviour 26
- Public order 23
- Other theft 11
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SA17 4 residents
- 6,715
Age bands in SA17 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 22.5%
1,254 residents
708 residents
1,638 residents
1,874 residents
1,587 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
1
within 5 km straight-line
MEDDYGFA MINAFON
HILLFIELD VILLAS, KIDWELLY, SA17 4UL
ODS code W92003
666 m
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Parc Pendre
BCT · Kidwelly
- 0.1 miles
Parc Pendre
BCT · Kidwelly
- 0.1 miles
Gravell`s Garage
BCT · Kidwelly
- 0.1 miles
Gravell`s Garage
BCT · Kidwelly
- 0.2 miles
Alstred Street
BCT · Kidwelly
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
228 published events cover 12 months, averaging 19 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 107 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.