Schools
7 open schools are in scope, including 0 primary and 0 secondary schools. Ysgol Y Bedol is the nearest published school at 2.1 km.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SA18 2PW
Betws · Carmarthenshire · Wales
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Betws
- Local authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Constituency
- Caerfyrddin
- Postcode district
- SA18
- Postcode sector
- SA18 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SA18 2PW
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SA
- Postcode district
- SA18
- Postcode sector
- SA18 2
- Latitude
- 51.788547
- Longitude
- -3.938528
- British National Grid easting
- 266,393
- British National Grid northing
- 211,765
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- Wales · W92000004
- Region
- W99999999
- Local authority district
- Carmarthenshire · W06000010
- Electoral ward
- Betws · W05001179
- Parish or community
- W04000492
- Westminster constituency
- Caerfyrddin · W07000087
- Output area
- W00003373
- Lower layer super output area
- Carmarthenshire 013C · W01000627
- Middle layer super output area
- Carmarthenshire 013 · W02000154
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
Schools
Within 5 km of this postcode
- Open schools
- 7
- Primary
- 0
- Secondary
- 0
- 2.1 km
Ysgol Y Bedol
Welsh establishment
- 3.2 km
Betws C.P. School
Welsh establishment
- 3.3 km
Ysgol Feithrin Rhydaman
Welsh establishment
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 29
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 13
- Criminal damage and arson 7
- Drugs 3
- Other crime 3
- Public order 2
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 5
- 3 female, 2 male
- Postcode households
- 1
- Residents per household
- 5.0
- SA18 2 residents
- 10,384
Age bands in SA18 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.5%
- 1,601 residents
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.1%
- 983 residents
- Age 25 to 44
- 21.2%
- 2,053 residents
- Age 45 to 64
- 27%
- 2,621 residents
- Age 65 and over
- 25.1%
- 2,434 residents
This postcode contained 0% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider SA18 2 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+
- 0%
- 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
- 100%
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
3
within 5 km straight-line
MARGARET STREET PRACTICE
MARGARET STREET, AMMANFORD, SA18 2PJ
ODS code W92040
3.5 km
BRYNTEG SURGERY
BRYNMAWR AVENUE, AMMANFORD, SA18 2DA
ODS code W92036
3.7 km
AMMAN TAWE PARTNERSHIP
1 GRAIG ROAD, GWAUN CAE GURWEN, AMMANFORD, SA18 1EG
ODS code W00142
3.7 km
Nearby transport
- 1.4 km
Farmers Arms
BCT · Glanaman
- 1.4 km
Farmers Arms
BCT · Glanaman
- 1.5 km
Jones Terrace
BCT · Twynmynydd
- 1.5 km
Jones Terrace
BCT · Glanaman
- 1.6 km
Llys-y-Deri
BCT · Hopkinstown
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
29 published events cover 12 months, averaging 2 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 13 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.