CF63 3RF Vale of Glamorgan

Live postcode, introduced January 1993. Ward: Castleland.

Streets

Council tax

What each band costs in Vale of Glamorgan in 2026-27: Band D £2,232 a year on average, including the police and community council charges.

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£1,488£1,736£1,984£2,232£2,727£3,223£3,719£4,463£5,207

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this postcode: most are in band C (41% of about 1,430 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 136 address points in this postcode, 5 at high risk, 4 at medium risk and 54 at low risk. Each counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: 5 at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 47 at low risk. Surface water and small watercourses alone: 0 at high risk, 4 at medium risk and 8 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: 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.

Broadband

Superfast 97%, ultrafast 56%, gigabit 56% of premises; 3% 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 stationsBarry Docks 286,000 journeys in 2024–251.1 km
Cadoxton 323,000 journeys in 2024–251.5 km
Barry Island 446,000 journeys in 2024–252.0 km
Bus stops2 stops within 400 m, 4 within 800 m; nearest Bendricks Sully330 m
Bus or coach stationCardiff Bus Interchange Bay 1 Cardiff Bus Station9.9 km
Ferry terminalBarry Waterfront Ferry Terminal1.9 km
Car parksWyndham Street Car Park1.7 km
EV charging points4 within 1.6 km; nearest Lower Pyke Street1.2 km
Airport with scheduled flightsCardiff International Airport CWL6.8 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 surgeries1 practices within 1.6 km; nearest The Waterfront Medical Centre1.5 km
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km; nearest Allied Pharmacy Waterfront1.5 km
NHS dentists1 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Dental Surgery1.6 km
HospitalThe Barry Hospital3.2 km
Police stationBarry police station1.7 km
Cash machinesCashpoint® 140B Holton Road Lloyds Bank1.6 km

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 gardenUnnamed 4,150 m²1.4 km
Play area1 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 610 m²280 m
Playing fieldMaslin Park 2.1 ha1.9 km
AllotmentsWeston Hill Allotments 3,650 m²1.3 km

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)7.54010
Fine particles (PM2.5)5.0205
Particles (PM10)8.04015

All three are within both the UK limits and 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: 167 residents in 125 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 age5643
Children under 1510%17%
Aged 65 and over32%21%

Homes

Around this postcodeWales
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)24%66%
Owned outright15%38%
Shared ownership0%under 1%
Social rented55%17%
Private rented20%17%

Work and commuting

Around this postcodeWales
Adults (16 and over) in work36%54%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)10%6%
Retired (of adults)33%25%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)17%6%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)37%26%
Travel to work by car or van46%61%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%under 1%
By any public transport, including bus2%3%
On foot or by bicycle13%8%
Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work)63%60%
Work 30 km or more away4%10%

Education and languages

Around this postcodeWales
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)17%32%
No qualifications38%20%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%6%
Main language English or Welsh (aged 3 and over)100%97%
Cannot speak English well or at all0%under 1%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this postcode is in decile 1 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 Atlantic Trading Estate.