Schools
9 open schools are in scope, including 0 primary and 0 secondary schools. Ysgol Gynradd Llanedy is the nearest published school at 0.9 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SA18 3PP
Tycroes · Carmarthenshire · Wales
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Tycroes
- Local authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Constituency
- Llanelli
- Postcode district
- SA18
- Postcode sector
- SA18 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SA18 3PP
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SA
- Postcode district
- SA18
- Postcode sector
- SA18 3
- Latitude
- 51.753815
- Longitude
- -4.032898
- British National Grid easting
- 259,777
- British National Grid northing
- 208,080
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- Wales · W92000004
- Region
- W99999999
- Local authority district
- Carmarthenshire · W06000010
- Electoral ward
- Tycroes · W05001225
- Parish or community
- W04000517
- Westminster constituency
- Llanelli · W07000098
- Output area
- W00003921
- Lower layer super output area
- Carmarthenshire 017C · W01000731
- Middle layer super output area
- Carmarthenshire 017 · W02000158
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 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 9
- Primary
- 0
- Secondary
- 0
- 1.4 km
Ysgol Gynradd Llanedy
Welsh establishment
- 2.7 km
Ysgol Gynradd Tycroes
Welsh establishment
- 3.8 km
Ysgol Gynradd Saron
Welsh establishment
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 3
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 5
- Postcode households
- 2
- Residents per household
- 2.5
- SA18 3 residents
- 10,937
1 female, 4 male
Age bands in SA18 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 21.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27%
- Age 65 and over
- 24.9%
1,789 residents
1,145 residents
2,417 residents
3,007 residents
2,771 residents
This postcode contained 0% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider SA18 3 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 Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
1
within 5 km
TALYBONT SURGERY
STATION ROAD, PONTARDDULAIS, SWANSEA, SA4 8TJ
ODS code W98013
4.2 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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.9 miles
Pen Y Waun Kennels
BCT · Greynor
- 1.0 miles
Hendrewen
BCT · Hendrewen
- 1.0 miles
Tarfan y Deri
BCT · Llanedi
- 1.0 miles
Tafarn y Deri
BCT · Llanedi
- 1.2 miles
Coopers
BCT · Coopers Estate
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
3 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 3 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.