Schools
12 open schools are in scope, including 0 primary and 0 secondary schools. YGG Pontardawe is the nearest published school at 593 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SA8 4NR
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 4NR
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 June 2023
- Postcode area
- SA
- Postcode district
- SA8
- Postcode sector
- SA8 4
- Latitude
- 51.726308
- Longitude
- -3.859697
- British National Grid easting
- 271,653
- British National Grid northing
- 204,702
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
- W00005028
- Lower layer super output area
- Neath Port Talbot 004C · W01000947
- 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
- 12
- Primary
- 0
- Secondary
- 0
- 593 m
YGG Pontardawe
Welsh establishment
- 816 m
Rhydyfro Primary School
Welsh establishment
- 1.2 km
Llangiwg Primary School
Welsh establishment
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 516
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 241
- Public order 56
- Anti social behaviour 54
- Criminal damage and arson 44
- 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.
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+
- 66.7%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 66.7%
- Gigabit-capable
- 66.7%
- 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 straight-line
PONTARDAWE PRIMARY CARE CENTRE
TAWE TERRACE, ALLOY INDUSTRIAL ESTATE, PONTARDAWE, SWANSEA, SA8 4JU
ODS code W98001
1.1 km
CWMTAWE MEDICAL GROUP
80 HIGH STREET, CLYDACH, SWANSEA, SA6 5LN
ODS code W98022
4.1 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Re-habilitation Unit
BCT · Gelli-gron
- 0.1 miles
Ffordd Cefn Llan
BCT · Rhyd-y-fro
- 0.1 miles
Rhyd-y-Fro
BCT · Gelli-gron
- 0.1 miles
Cefn Llan Stores
BCT · Pontardawe
- 0.1 miles
Rhyd-y-Fro
BCT · Gelli-gron
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
516 published events cover 12 months, averaging 43 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 241 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.