Schools
3 open schools are in scope, including 0 primary and 0 secondary schools. Ysgol Gyfun Emlyn is the nearest published school at 989 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SA38 9LW
Cenarth and Llangeler · Carmarthenshire · Wales
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Newcastle Emlyn
- Local authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Constituency
- Caerfyrddin
- Postcode district
- SA38
- Postcode sector
- SA38 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SA38 9LW
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SA
- Postcode district
- SA38
- Postcode sector
- SA38 9
- Latitude
- 52.025805
- Longitude
- -4.473408
- British National Grid easting
- 230,403
- British National Grid northing
- 239,264
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- Wales · W92000004
- Region
- W99999999
- Local authority district
- Carmarthenshire · W06000010
- Electoral ward
- Cenarth and Llangeler · W05001185
- Parish or community
- W04000496
- Westminster constituency
- Caerfyrddin · W07000087
- Output area
- W00003472
- Lower layer super output area
- Carmarthenshire 003A · W01000646
- Middle layer super output area
- Carmarthenshire 003 · W02000144
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 SA38
Property
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Gwernant, Capel Iwan Road, Newcastle Emlyn, SA38 9LW | 10 September 2015 | £195,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 3
- Primary
- 0
- Secondary
- 0
- 989 m
Ysgol Gyfun Emlyn
Welsh establishment
- 1.5 km
Ysgol Y Ddwylan
Welsh establishment
- 4.5 km
Ysgol Cenarth
Welsh establishment
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 140
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 82
- Criminal damage and arson 13
- Drugs 8
- Shoplifting 8
- Public order 7
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 16
- Postcode households
- 7
- Residents per household
- 2.3
- SA38 9 residents
- 4,558
8 female, 8 male
Age bands in SA38 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 16.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 31.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 30.1%
663 residents
465 residents
853 residents
1,586 residents
1,533 residents
This postcode contained 0.4% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider SA38 9 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+
- 71.4%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 71.4%
- Gigabit-capable
- 71.4%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 28.6%
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
MEDDYGFA EMLYN
LLOYDS TERRACE, ADPAR, NEWCASTLE EMLYN, SA38 9NS
ODS code W92018
1.8 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
- 0.5 miles
Danyrhelyg
BCT · Newcastle Emlyn
- 0.5 miles
Danyrhelyg
BCT · Newcastle Emlyn
- 0.6 miles
Ysgol Emlyn
BCT · Newcastle Emlyn
- 0.6 miles
Ysgol Emlyn
BCT · Newcastle Emlyn
- 0.8 miles
Cattle Market
BCT · Newcastle Emlyn
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
140 published events cover 12 months, averaging 11.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 82 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.