Schools
13 open schools are in scope, including 0 primary and 0 secondary schools. Rhos Primary School is the nearest published school at 0.9 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SA8 3JQ
Rhos · Neath Port Talbot · Wales
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Swansea
- Ward
- Rhos
- Local authority
- Neath Port Talbot
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe
- Postcode district
- SA8
- Postcode sector
- SA8 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SA8 3JQ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SA
- Postcode district
- SA8
- Postcode sector
- SA8 3
- Latitude
- 51.721514
- Longitude
- -3.813154
- British National Grid easting
- 274,854
- British National Grid northing
- 204,088
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- Wales · W92000004
- Region
- W99999999
- Local authority district
- Neath Port Talbot · W06000012
- Electoral ward
- Rhos · W05001709
- Parish or community
- W04000606
- Westminster constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe · W07000085
- Output area
- W00005072
- Lower layer super output area
- Neath Port Talbot 004E · W01000955
- Middle layer super output area
- Neath Port Talbot 004 · W02000202
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 SA8
Property
4 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Plas Cilybebyll, Cilybebyll, Swansea, SA8 3JQ | 7 February 2020 | £900,000 |
| Plas Cilybebyll, Cilybebyll, Swansea, SA8 3JQ | 12 August 2016 | £1,050,000 |
| The Lodge, Cilybebyll, Swansea, SA8 3JQ | 25 April 2003 | £222,500 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 13
- Primary
- 0
- Secondary
- 0
- 1.5 km
Rhos Primary School
Welsh establishment
- 2.1 km
Llangiwg Primary School
Welsh establishment
- 2.2 km
Alltwen Primary School
Welsh establishment
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 72
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 39
- Public order 13
- Criminal damage and arson 6
- Anti social behaviour 5
- Other theft 3
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 2
- Postcode households
- 1
- Residents per household
- 2.0
- SA8 3 residents
- 5,401
1 female, 1 male
Age bands in SA8 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 23.5%
823 residents
478 residents
1,248 residents
1,489 residents
1,242 residents
This postcode contained 0% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider SA8 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
- 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
1
within 5 km straight-line
PONTARDAWE PRIMARY CARE CENTRE
TAWE TERRACE, ALLOY INDUSTRIAL ESTATE, PONTARDAWE, SWANSEA, SA8 4JU
ODS code W98001
2.4 km
Nearby transport
- 0.6 miles
Francis Court
BCT · Rhos
- 0.7 miles
Cae Rhedyn
BCT · Rhos
- 0.7 miles
Gelli Nedd Bend
BCT · Gelli-nudd
- 0.7 miles
Gelli Nedd
BCT · Gelli-nudd
- 0.8 miles
Capel Bryn Seion
BCT · Gelli-nudd
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
72 published events cover 12 months, averaging 6 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 39 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.