CF11 9HT Cardiff

Live postcode, introduced June 1999. Ward: Riverside.

Streets

Council tax

What each band costs in Cardiff in 2026-27: Band D £2,013 a year on average, including the police and community council charges.

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£1,342£1,566£1,789£2,013£2,461£2,908£3,355£4,026£4,697

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this postcode: most are in band E (30% of about 880 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this postcode; Welsh Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: no postcode centre in this postcode is in one.
  • Listed buildings within 100 m of this postcode: none.
  • Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and green belt: Wales has no national record of these; the council's planning department holds them.

Source: DataMapWales (Welsh Government): conservation areas compiled from the councils, and Cadw's listed buildings. Conservation areas are checked at each postcode's centre; some councils' boundaries in this layer have not been updated for years, so the council's own map is the one to rely on. Listed buildings are counted within 100 m of this postcode. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: of the 16 address points in this postcode, 0 at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 16 at low risk. Each counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: 0 at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 16 at low risk. Surface water and small watercourses alone: 0 at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 2 at low risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. The map allows for flood defences. Address points are every property record (UPRN) in the postcode, each counted if it is in an area or within 5 m of one (the maps stop at building walls); a few are not homes, such as garages, business units or caravan pitches. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: the postcode centre is in flood zone 2. Zone 2 is between 0.1% and 1% a year from rivers (0.1% and 0.5% from the sea), ignoring defences. Welsh zones include an allowance for climate change.

Sources: Natural Resources Wales Flood Risk Assessment Wales: rivers, sea and surface water (loaded 30 October 2026), and Flood Map for Planning: rivers and sea (loaded 29 October 2026); address points from OS Open UPRN and the ONS UPRN Directory. Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on Natural Resources Wales's flood risk map.

Height above sea level

The postcode's addresses are about 11 m above sea level.

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

Superfast 100%, ultrafast 100%, gigabit 100% of premises; 0% cannot get 10 Mbit/s. Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026.

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 31 October 2026; Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage 2024–25 (which stations are on the National Rail network, and their journeys: entries and exits in the year to March); OurAirports (public domain, kept by volunteers); car parks and charging points from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and others: not an official register, so some will be missing, private or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the postcode's centre, not routes, and say nothing about how often anything runs. Stations opened since the end of ORR's year appear when ORR publishes the next one, each December; heritage railways are left out.

NearestDistance
Railway stationsNinian Park 156,000 journeys in 2024–251.3 km
Cathays 934,000 journeys in 2024–251.5 km
Cardiff Central 13 million journeys in 2024–252.0 km
Bus stops8 stops within 400 m, 37 within 800 m; nearest Berthwin Street Pontcanna150 m
Bus or coach stationCardiff Bus Interchange Bay 14 Cardiff Bus Station2.0 km
Ferry terminalCardiff Castle Waterbus Stop1.3 km
Car parksLlandaff Campus Car Park1.1 km
EV charging points8 within 1.6 km; nearest Connected Kerb Charging Stations710 m
Airport with scheduled flightsCardiff International Airport CWL14.2 km

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the postcode's centre. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries9 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Kings Road (Drs Surgery)250 m
Pharmacies7 pharmacies within 1.6 km; nearest Pontcanna Chemist360 m
NHS dentists6 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Dental Surgery480 m
HospitalChild And Family Service, St David Hospital830 m
Police stationCardiff Central Police Station1.4 km
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m; nearest The Cooperative Food Canton, Canton Cashzone750 m

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the postcode's centre to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or garden4 within 800 m; nearest Pontcanna Fields 35 ha440 m
Play area1 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 4,720 m²530 m
Playing field3 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 19 ha0 m
AllotmentsPontcanna Chalet 3,370 m²930 m

Within 800 m: 4 parks and gardens, 49 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Pontcanna Fields and Llandaff Fields, a registered park or garden (Grade II*), 500 m north. 52 listed buildings are within 1.0 km, 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the postcode's centre
Pontcanna Fields and Llandaff FieldsRegistered park or garden, Grade II*500 m north
Thompson's Park (Sir David's Field)Registered park or garden, Grade II620 m west
Howells School, Original Building with Big HallListed building, Grade II*840 m west
Dominican FriaryScheduled monument1.2 km south-east
Old Bishop's Palace, LlandaffScheduled monument1.4 km north-west
Cross in Llandaff CathedralScheduled monument1.4 km north-west
Natural landmarks within 5.0 km
NameWhat it isFrom the postcode's centre
New CutLake or reservoir1.9 km west
Leckwith WoodsWood2.2 km south-west
Cock HillHill2.6 km south-west
Cwm CydfinValley3.2 km south
Cardiff Bay WetlandsWetland3.8 km south-east
Bae CaerdyddBay4.5 km south-east

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10.0 km, battlefields within 5.0 km, registered parks and gardens within 3.0 km, scheduled monuments within 2.0 km, and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1.0 km. Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the postcode's centre. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)12.14010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.8205
Particles (PM10)9.24015

All three are within the UK legal limits; nitrogen dioxide and PM2.5 are above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road and rail noise

Source: Welsh Government, Environmental Noise Mapping 2022 (Wales), modelled with Defra's noise model for every road and railway in Wales and published in August 2023, through DataMapWales: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic, not measurements; they leave out aircraft, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic and 54 dB for railways.

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
55 to 5950
Under 551116

5 of the postcode's 16 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this postcode is in: 249 residents in 114 households. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.

Who lives here

Around this postcodeWales
Median age4243
Children under 1517%17%
Aged 65 and over15%21%

Homes

Around this postcodeWales
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)65%66%
Owned outright38%38%
Shared ownershipunder 1%under 1%
Social rented7%17%
Private rented27%17%

Work and commuting

Around this postcodeWales
Adults (16 and over) in work66%54%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)3%6%
Retired (of adults)16%25%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)5%6%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)51%26%
Travel to work by car or van30%61%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%under 1%
By any public transport, including bus2%3%
On foot or by bicycle16%8%
Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work)85%60%
Work 30 km or more away4%10%

Education and languages

Around this postcodeWales
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)74%32%
No qualifications6%20%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification3%6%
Main language English or Welsh (aged 3 and over)96%97%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%under 1%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this postcode is in decile 8 of 10 on the Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of Wales's 1,917 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025 (Welsh Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

The full dossier for this postcode's main street is on Iestyn Street.