Schools
8 open schools are in scope, including 0 primary and 0 secondary schools. Ysgol Plascrug is the nearest published school at 514 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SY23 1QT
Aberystwyth Penparcau · Ceredigion · Wales
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Aberystwyth
- Local authority
- Ceredigion
- Constituency
- Ceredigion Preseli
- Postcode district
- SY23
- Postcode sector
- SY23 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SY23 1QT
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SY
- Postcode district
- SY23
- Postcode sector
- SY23 1
- Latitude
- 52.405613
- Longitude
- -4.075906
- British National Grid easting
- 258,881
- British National Grid northing
- 280,649
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- Wales · W92000004
- Region
- W99999999
- Local authority district
- Ceredigion · W06000008
- Electoral ward
- Aberystwyth Penparcau · W05001301
- Parish or community
- W04000359
- Westminster constituency
- Ceredigion Preseli · W07000093
- Output area
- W00002757
- Lower layer super output area
- Ceredigion 003A · W01000515
- Middle layer super output area
- Ceredigion 003 · W02000118
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 SY23
Property
4 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 32, Fifth Avenue, Penparcau, Aberystwyth, SY23 1QT | 2 March 2015 | £165,000 |
| 23d, Fifth Avenue, Penparcau, Aberystwyth, SY23 1QT | 3 November 2006 | £108,000 |
| 29, Fifth Avenue, Penparcau, Aberystwyth, SY23 1QT | 4 November 2005 | £190,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 8
- Primary
- 0
- Secondary
- 0
- 514 m
Ysgol Plascrug
Welsh establishment
- 616 m
Yr Ysgol Gymraeg
Welsh establishment
- 719 m
Ysgol Gyfun Penweddig
Welsh establishment
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,666
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 737
- Public order 147
- Criminal damage and arson 141
- Anti social behaviour 138
- Shoplifting 119
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 29
- Postcode households
- 17
- Residents per household
- 1.7
- SY23 1 residents
- 5,994
17 female, 12 male
Age bands in SY23 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 12.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 26.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 20.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 16.2%
722 residents
1,577 residents
1,446 residents
1,197 residents
958 residents
This postcode contained 0.5% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider SY23 1 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
3
within 5 km straight-line
YSTWYTH MEDICAL GROUP
PARC Y LLYN RETAIL PARK, LLANBADARN FAWR, ABERYSTWYTH, SY23 3TL
ODS code W92025
491 m
MEDDYGFA'R LLAN
CHURCH SURGERY, PORTLAND STREET, ABERYSTWYTH, SY23 2DX
ODS code W92014
1.3 km
MEDDYGFA PADARN SURGERY
PENGLAIS ROAD, ABERYSTWYTH, SY23 3DU
ODS code W92024
1.4 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Min-y-Ddol
BCT · Caeffynnon
- 0.1 miles
Heol Isaf
BCT · Caeffynnon
- 0.1 miles
Plas Helyg
BCT · Penparcau
- 0.1 miles
Second Avenue
BCT · Penparcau
- 0.2 miles
Min-y-Ddol
BCT · Penparcau
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
1,666 published events cover 12 months, averaging 138.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 737 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.