Schools
3 open schools are in scope, including 0 primary and 0 secondary schools. YGG Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen is the nearest published school at 2.1 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SA8 4RX
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 4RX
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SA
- Postcode district
- SA8
- Postcode sector
- SA8 4
- Latitude
- 51.763662
- Longitude
- -3.892926
- British National Grid easting
- 269,466
- British National Grid northing
- 208,915
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
- W00005034
- Lower layer super output area
- Neath Port Talbot 004B · W01000946
- 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
- 3
- Primary
- 0
- Secondary
- 0
- 3.5 km
YGG Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen
Welsh establishment
- 3.7 km
Tairgwaith Primary School
Welsh establishment
- 4.0 km
Rhydyfro Primary School
Welsh establishment
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 12
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 4
- Public order 3
- Other theft 2
- Anti social behaviour 2
- Vehicle crime 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 2
- Postcode households
- 2
- Residents per household
- 1.0
- SA8 4 residents
- 7,886
2 female, 0 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% 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+
- 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
AMMAN TAWE PARTNERSHIP
1 GRAIG ROAD, GWAUN CAE GURWEN, AMMANFORD, SA18 1EG
ODS code W00142
3.3 km
Nearby transport
- 0.6 miles
Old Star Inn
BCT · Cwmgors
- 0.6 miles
Old Star Inn
BCT · Cwmgors
- 0.6 miles
Abernant Garth Farm
BCT · Cwmgors
- 0.7 miles
Abernant Garth Farm
BCT · Cwmgors
- 0.7 miles
Heol-y-Gors
BCT · Cwmgors
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
12 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 4 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.