Schools
5 open schools are in scope, including 0 primary and 0 secondary schools. Brynaman C P School is the nearest published school at 744 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SA18 1AY
Cwarter Bach · Carmarthenshire · Wales
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Ammanford
- Ward
- Cwarter Bach
- Local authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Constituency
- Caerfyrddin
- Postcode district
- SA18
- Postcode sector
- SA18 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SA18 1AY
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SA
- Postcode district
- SA18
- Postcode sector
- SA18 1
- Latitude
- 51.818144
- Longitude
- -3.870021
- British National Grid easting
- 271,202
- British National Grid northing
- 214,933
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- Wales · W92000004
- Region
- W99999999
- Local authority district
- Carmarthenshire · W06000010
- Electoral ward
- Cwarter Bach · W05001187
- Parish or community
- W04000554
- Westminster constituency
- Caerfyrddin · W07000087
- Output area
- W00003858
- Lower layer super output area
- Carmarthenshire 010E · W01000719
- Middle layer super output area
- Carmarthenshire 010 · W02000151
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 SA18
Property
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Brynawel, Bryn Road, Upper Brynamman, Ammanford, SA18 1AY | 5 October 2007 | £250,000 |
Schools
Within 5 km of this postcode
- Open schools
- 5
- Primary
- 0
- Secondary
- 0
- 744 m
Brynaman C P School
Welsh establishment
- 2.8 km
YGG Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen
Welsh establishment
- 3.0 km
Tairgwaith Primary School
Welsh establishment
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 180
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 100
- Public order 19
- Anti social behaviour 18
- Criminal damage and arson 10
- Drugs 8
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 8
- 3 female, 5 male
- Postcode households
- 2
- Residents per household
- 4.0
- SA18 1 residents
- 9,107
Age bands in SA18 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.9%
- 1,604 residents
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.2%
- 967 residents
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.5%
- 2,135 residents
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.8%
- 2,639 residents
- Age 65 and over
- 22.7%
- 2,163 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider SA18 1 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, coverage at January 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
2
within 5 km straight-line
AMMAN TAWE PARTNERSHIP
1 GRAIG ROAD, GWAUN CAE GURWEN, AMMANFORD, SA18 1EG
ODS code W00142
3.0 km
AMMAN TAWE PARTNERSHIP
4 GWILYM ROAD, CWMLLYNFELL, SWANSEA, SA9 2GH
ODS code W00143
4.1 km
Nearby transport
- 437 m
Arfryn
BCT · Upper Brynamman
- 550 m
Derlwyn Arms
BCT · Upper Brynamman
- 557 m
Mountain Road
BCT · Upper Brynamman
- 576 m
Mountain Road
BCT · Upper Brynamman
- 580 m
New Road
BCT · Upper Brynamman
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
180 published events cover 12 months, averaging 15 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 100 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.