Schools
14 open schools are in scope, including 0 primary and 0 secondary schools. Cwmtawe Community School is the nearest published school at 166 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SA8 4HP
Pontardawe · Neath Port Talbot · Wales
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Pontardawe
- Local authority
- Neath Port Talbot
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe
- Postcode district
- SA8
- Postcode sector
- SA8 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SA8 4HP
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 April 1987
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SA
- Postcode district
- SA8
- Postcode sector
- SA8 4
- Latitude
- 51.716551
- Longitude
- -3.851218
- British National Grid easting
- 272,211
- British National Grid northing
- 203,602
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- Wales · W92000004
- Region
- W99999999
- Local authority district
- Neath Port Talbot · W06000012
- Electoral ward
- Pontardawe · W05001706
- Parish or community
- W04000621
- Westminster constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe · W07000085
- Output area
- W00005033
- Lower layer super output area
- Neath Port Talbot 004D · W01000948
- 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
- 14
- Primary
- 0
- Secondary
- 0
- 166 m
Cwmtawe Community School
Welsh establishment
- 476 m
Alltwen Primary School
Welsh establishment
- 993 m
YGG Pontardawe
Welsh establishment
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 524
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 236
- Public order 58
- Anti social behaviour 55
- Criminal damage and arson 43
- Shoplifting 39
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 42
- Postcode households
- 31
- Residents per household
- 1.4
- SA8 4 residents
- 7,886
26 female, 16 male
Age bands in SA8 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 20.8%
1,372 residents
873 residents
1,926 residents
2,206 residents
1,675 residents
This postcode contained 0.5% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider SA8 4 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+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- 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
2
within 5 km
PONTARDAWE PRIMARY CARE CENTRE
TAWE TERRACE, ALLOY INDUSTRIAL ESTATE, PONTARDAWE, SWANSEA, SA8 4JU
ODS code W98001
440 m
CWMTAWE MEDICAL GROUP
80 HIGH STREET, CLYDACH, SWANSEA, SA6 5LN
ODS code W98022
3.7 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
- 0.1 miles
Pontardawe Tesco
BCT · Alltwen
- 0.1 miles
Focus
BCT · Pontardawe
- 0.1 miles
Cwmtawe Comprehensive School
BCT · Alltwen
- 0.2 miles
Lôn Tanyrallt Flats
BCT · Alltwen
- 0.2 miles
Pontardawe Jubilee
BCT · Pontardawe
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
524 published events cover 12 months, averaging 43.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 236 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.