CF31 3DA Bridgend

Live postcode, introduced January 1980. Ward: Oldcastle.

Streets

  • : 40 addresses
  • : 2 addresses
  • : 1 address

Council tax

What each band costs in Bridgend in 2026-27: Band D £2,478 a year on average, including the police and community council charges.

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£1,652£1,927£2,203£2,478£3,029£3,579£4,130£4,956£5,782

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this postcode: most are in band C (33% of about 910 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

None of the 43 address points in this postcode is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water on Natural Resources Wales's map. Outside those areas the chance is under 0.1% (1 in 1,000) a year.

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: no postcode centre is in flood zone 2 or 3. 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 43 addresses are between 30 m and 32 m above sea level (31 m on average).

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 95% 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 stationsBridgend 1.4 million journeys in 2024–25630 m
Wildmill 29,000 journeys in 2024–252.2 km
Sarn 57,000 journeys in 2024–254.3 km
Bus stops6 stops within 400 m, 25 within 800 m; nearest Bridgend College90 m
Bus or coach stationBridgend Bus Station Stand 10800 m
Car parks3 within 800 m; nearest Rhiw Multi-Storey Car Park480 m
EV charging points10 within 1.6 km; nearest Connected Kerb Charging Stations90 m
Airport with scheduled flightsCardiff International Airport CWL19.8 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 surgeries3 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Riversdale House420 m
Pharmacies7 pharmacies within 1.6 km; nearest M W Phillips Chemists250 m
NHS dentists5 practices within 1.6 km; nearest The Bridgend Dental Centre250 m
HospitalPrincess Of Wales Hospital1.8 km
Police stationSouth Wales Police - Bridgend Police Station400 m
Cash machines5 machines within 800 m; nearest Principality - Bridgend560 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 Unnamed 380 m²110 m
Largest park within 800 mUnnamed 3,380 m²500 m
Play area4 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 1,110 m²280 m
Playing field1 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 6,600 m²790 m
Allotments5 within 800 m; nearest Coychurch Road Allotments 2,280 m²140 m

Within 800 m: 4 parks and gardens, 0.9 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Royal Ordnance Factory Bridgend Dual-storey Pillbox, a scheduled monument, 580 m east. 68 listed buildings are within 1.0 km, 3 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the postcode's centre
Royal Ordnance Factory Bridgend Dual-storey PillboxScheduled monument580 m east
Bridgend Standing StoneScheduled monument670 m north-west
Old BridgeListed building, Grade II*740 m north-west
Bridgend Old BridgeScheduled monument740 m north-west
St John's HospiceListed building, Grade II*870 m north-west
Church of St IlltydListed building, Grade II*1.0 km north-west
Ewenny PrioryRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.7 km south-east
Merthyr Mawr HouseRegistered park or garden, Grade II*2.4 km south-west
Natural landmarks within 5.0 km
NameWhat it isFrom the postcode's centre
Pwll ClementLake or reservoir880 m west
Craig-y-ParcauWood1.1 km west
Llyn-y-goredLake or reservoir1.2 km west
River WoodWood1.5 km south-east
Brackla HillHill1.8 km north-east
Cwm AlunValley3.2 km south

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)8.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.1205
Particles (PM10)8.54015

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

Road and rail noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023: 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 on the roads and railways, 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.

Defra's noise maps cover England only; the Welsh Government's 2022 maps are not shown here yet.

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: 346 residents in 150 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 age3743
Children under 1514%17%
Aged 65 and over13%21%

Homes

Around this postcodeWales
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)54%66%
Owned outright31%38%
Shared ownership1%under 1%
Social rented9%17%
Private rented36%17%

Work and commuting

Around this postcodeWales
Adults (16 and over) in work64%54%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)7%6%
Retired (of adults)16%25%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)6%6%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)24%26%
Travel to work by car or van54%61%
By train, Underground, metro or tram3%under 1%
By any public transport, including bus3%3%
On foot or by bicycle18%8%
Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work)75%60%
Work 30 km or more away5%10%

Education and languages

Around this postcodeWales
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)30%32%
No qualifications18%20%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%6%
Main language English or Welsh (aged 3 and over)84%97%
Cannot speak English well or at all6%under 1%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this postcode is in decile 2 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.

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