Schools
5 open schools are in scope, including 0 primary and 0 secondary schools. YGG Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen is the nearest published school at 613 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SA18 1HW
Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen and Lower Brynamman · Neath Port Talbot · Wales
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Ammanford
- Local authority
- Neath Port Talbot
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe
- Postcode district
- SA18
- Postcode sector
- SA18 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SA18 1HW
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SA
- Postcode district
- SA18
- Postcode sector
- SA18 1
- Latitude
- 51.788219
- Longitude
- -3.881209
- British National Grid easting
- 270,345
- British National Grid northing
- 211,625
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- Wales · W92000004
- Region
- W99999999
- Local authority district
- Neath Port Talbot · W06000012
- Electoral ward
- Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen and Lower Brynamman · W05001700
- Parish or community
- W04000615
- Westminster constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe · W07000085
- Output area
- W00004945
- Lower layer super output area
- Neath Port Talbot 020D · W01000929
- Middle layer super output area
- Neath Port Talbot 020 · W02000417
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
7 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 2, Lower Colbren Road, Gwaun Cae Gurwen, Ammanford, SA18 1HW | 8 February 2019 | £122,500 |
| 4, Lower Colbren Road, Gwaun Cae Gurwen, Ammanford, SA18 1HW | 23 June 2017 | £77,500 |
| Bramble Cottage, Lower Colbren Road, Gwaun Cae Gurwen, Ammanford, SA18 1HW | 29 August 2014 | £76,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 5
- Primary
- 0
- Secondary
- 0
- 613 m
YGG Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen
Welsh establishment
- 1.2 km
Tairgwaith Primary School
Welsh establishment
- 3.2 km
Brynaman C P School
Welsh establishment
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 212
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 117
- Public order 24
- Anti social behaviour 24
- Criminal damage and arson 21
- Burglary 8
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 19
- Postcode households
- 6
- Residents per household
- 3.2
- SA18 1 residents
- 9,107
7 female, 12 male
Age bands in SA18 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 22.7%
1,604 residents
967 residents
2,135 residents
2,639 residents
2,163 residents
This postcode contained 0.2% 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 Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
2
within 5 km
AMMAN TAWE PARTNERSHIP
1 GRAIG ROAD, GWAUN CAE GURWEN, AMMANFORD, SA18 1EG
ODS code W00142
611 m
AMMAN TAWE PARTNERSHIP
4 GWILYM ROAD, CWMLLYNFELL, SWANSEA, SA9 2GH
ODS code W00143
4.5 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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Crescis Cafe
BCT · Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen
- 0.1 miles
Pont y Groes
BCT · Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen
- 0.1 miles
Crescis Cafe
BCT · Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen
- 0.1 miles
Ger-yr-Afon
BCT · Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen
- 0.2 miles
Cwmgors Spar
BCT · Cwmgors
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
212 published events cover 12 months, averaging 17.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 117 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.