Schools
8 open schools are in scope, including 0 primary and 0 secondary schools. Ysgol Penglais is the nearest published school at 482 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SY23 3DA
Aberystwyth Morfa a Glais · Ceredigion · Wales
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Ceredigion
- Constituency
- Ceredigion Preseli
- Postcode district
- SY23
- Postcode sector
- SY23 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SY23 3DA
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SY
- Postcode district
- SY23
- Postcode sector
- SY23 3
- Latitude
- 52.415651
- Longitude
- -4.066480
- British National Grid easting
- 259,554
- British National Grid northing
- 281,747
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- Wales · W92000004
- Region
- W99999999
- Local authority district
- Ceredigion · W06000008
- Electoral ward
- Aberystwyth Morfa a Glais · W05001300
- Parish or community
- W04000359
- Westminster constituency
- Ceredigion Preseli · W07000093
- Output area
- W00010054
- Lower layer super output area
- Ceredigion 002A · W01000512
- Middle layer super output area
- Ceredigion 002 · W02000117
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
Schools
Within 5 km of this postcode
- Open schools
- 8
- Primary
- 0
- Secondary
- 0
- 482 m
Ysgol Penglais
Welsh establishment
- 596 m
Ysgol Padarn Sant
Welsh establishment
- 673 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 728
- Public order 145
- Anti social behaviour 145
- Criminal damage and arson 134
- Drugs 128
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SY23 3 residents
- 10,265
Age bands in SY23 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 12.6%
- 1,405 residents
- Age 15 to 24
- 29.5%
- 3,300 residents
- Age 25 to 44
- 18%
- 2,017 residents
- Age 45 to 64
- 20.8%
- 2,321 residents
- Age 65 and over
- 19.2%
- 2,142 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+
- 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, coverage at January 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
3
within 5 km straight-line
MEDDYGFA PADARN SURGERY
PENGLAIS ROAD, ABERYSTWYTH, SY23 3DU
ODS code W92024
289 m
YSTWYTH MEDICAL GROUP
PARC Y LLYN RETAIL PARK, LLANBADARN FAWR, ABERYSTWYTH, SY23 3TL
ODS code W92025
1.1 km
MEDDYGFA'R LLAN
CHURCH SURGERY, PORTLAND STREET, ABERYSTWYTH, SY23 2DX
ODS code W92014
1.1 km
Nearby transport
- 173 m
Sports Centre
BCT · Aberystwyth
- 185 m
Sports Centre
BCT · Aberystwyth
- 206 m
Aberystwyth Arts Centre
BCT · Llain-y-gawsai
- 236 m
National Library of Wales
BCT · Llain-y-gawsai
- 241 m
Aberystwyth University
BCT · Penglais
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
1,666 published events cover 12 months, averaging 139 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 728 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.