Schools
13 open schools are in scope, including 0 primary and 0 secondary schools. YGG Pontardawe is the nearest published school at 0 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SA8 4JX
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 4JX
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SA
- Postcode district
- SA8
- Postcode sector
- SA8 4
- Latitude
- 51.725480
- Longitude
- -3.851221
- British National Grid easting
- 272,236
- British National Grid northing
- 204,595
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
- W00005030
- 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
- 13
- Primary
- 0
- Secondary
- 0
- 0 m
YGG Pontardawe
Welsh establishment
- 686 m
Llangiwg Primary School
Welsh establishment
- 999 m
Alltwen Primary School
Welsh establishment
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 572
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 269
- Public order 63
- Anti social behaviour 60
- Criminal damage and arson 50
- Shoplifting 38
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SA8 4 residents
- 7,886
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
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
2
within 5 km
PONTARDAWE PRIMARY CARE CENTRE
TAWE TERRACE, ALLOY INDUSTRIAL ESTATE, PONTARDAWE, SWANSEA, SA8 4JU
ODS code W98001
717 m
CWMTAWE MEDICAL GROUP
80 HIGH STREET, CLYDACH, SWANSEA, SA6 5LN
ODS code W98022
4.4 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
- 0.1 miles
Alltywerin
BCT · Pontardawe
- 0.2 miles
Ffordd Silkin
BCT · Pontardawe
- 0.2 miles
Ffordd Silkin
BCT · Pontardawe
- 0.2 miles
East Crossways
BCT · Pontardawe
- 0.2 miles
East Crossways
BCT · Pontardawe
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
572 published events cover 12 months, averaging 47.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 269 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.