Schools
23 open schools are in scope, including 0 primary and 0 secondary schools. Mayals Primary School is the nearest published school at 384 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SA3 5YZ
West Cross · Swansea · Wales
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- West Cross
- Local authority
- Swansea
- Constituency
- Gower
- Postcode district
- SA3
- Postcode sector
- SA3 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SA3 5YZ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 December 1999
- Terminated
- 1 September 2000
- Postcode area
- SA
- Postcode district
- SA3
- Postcode sector
- SA3 5
- Latitude
- 51.588228
- Longitude
- -4.008186
- British National Grid easting
- 260,976
- British National Grid northing
- 189,619
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- Wales · W92000004
- Region
- W99999999
- Local authority district
- Swansea · W06000011
- Electoral ward
- West Cross · W05001070
- Parish or community
- W04000583
- Westminster constituency
- Gower · W07000097
- Output area
- W00004684
- Lower layer super output area
- Swansea 029D · W01000882
- Middle layer super output area
- Swansea 029 · W02000196
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 SA3
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 23
- Primary
- 0
- Secondary
- 0
- 384 m
Mayals Primary School
Welsh establishment
- 478 m
Y.G.G. Llwynderw
Welsh establishment
- 587 m
T? Dan Y Coed
Welsh establishment
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 609
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 268
- Public order 74
- Criminal damage and arson 62
- Anti social behaviour 61
- Shoplifting 40
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SA3 5 residents
- 8,658
Age bands in SA3 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 18%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 31.6%
1,217 residents
755 residents
1,546 residents
2,349 residents
2,708 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
7
within 5 km straight-line
THE MUMBLES MEDICAL PRACTICE
10 WEST CROSS AVENUE, WEST CROSS, SWANSEA, SA3 5UA
ODS code W98033
855 m
KINGS ROAD SURGERY
2-6 KINGS ROAD, MUMBLES, SWANSEA, SA3 4AJ
ODS code W98055
1.7 km
UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE
PENMAEN RESIDENCES, SINGLETON PARK, SWANSEA, SA2 8PG
ODS code W98053
3.1 km
SKETTY & KILLAY MEDICAL CENTRE
SKETTY SURGERY, DE LA BECHE ROAD, SKETTY, SWANSEA, SA2 9EA
ODS code W98021
3.5 km
UPLANDS & MUMBLES SURGERY
46-48 SKETTY ROAD, SWANSEA, SA2 0LJ
ODS code W98049
4.3 km
THE GROVE MEDICAL CENTRE
6 UPLANDS TERRACE, UPLANDS, SWANSEA, SA2 0GU
ODS code W98023
4.5 km
BRUNSWICK HEALTH CENTRE
PHILLIPS PARADE, SWANSEA, SA1 4JL
ODS code W98024
4.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Elmgrove Road
BCT · West Cross
- 0.1 miles
Elmgrove Road
BCT · West Cross
- 0.1 miles
West Cross Community Centre
BCT · West Cross
- 0.1 miles
Moorside Road
BCT · West Cross
- 0.1 miles
Moorside Road
BCT · West Cross
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
609 published events cover 12 months, averaging 50.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 268 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.