Schools
17 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 3XZ
Rhos · Neath Port Talbot · Wales
Updated September 2026
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- 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 3XZ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 December 2001
- Terminated
- 1 May 2002
- Postcode area
- SA
- Postcode district
- SA8
- Postcode sector
- SA8 3
- Latitude
- 51.712423
- Longitude
- -3.810257
- British National Grid easting
- 275,029
- British National Grid northing
- 203,072
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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 17
- Primary
- 0
- Secondary
- 0
- 1.4 km
Rhos Primary School
Welsh establishment
- 2.4 km
Alltwen Primary School
Welsh establishment
- 2.7 km
Llangiwg Primary School
Welsh establishment
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 58
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 33
- Public order 8
- Anti social behaviour 5
- Other theft 3
- Criminal damage and arson 3
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SA8 3 residents
- 5,401
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
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
1
within 5 km straight-line
PONTARDAWE PRIMARY CARE CENTRE
TAWE TERRACE, ALLOY INDUSTRIAL ESTATE, PONTARDAWE, SWANSEA, SA8 4JU
ODS code W98001
2.7 km
Nearby transport
- 0.6 miles
Cae Rhedyn
BCT · Rhos
- 0.7 miles
Francis Court
BCT · Rhos
- 0.7 miles
Primrose Lane
BCT · Rhos
- 0.7 miles
Rhos Village Hall
BCT · Rhos
- 0.7 miles
Rhos Post Office
BCT · Rhos
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
58 published events cover 12 months, averaging 4.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 33 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.