SA3 5BJ Swansea

Live postcode, introduced July 1986. Ward: Mayals.

Streets

  • : 35 addresses
  • : 2 addresses
  • : 1 address

Council tax

What each band costs in Swansea in 2026-27: Band D £2,238 a year on average, including the police and community council charges.

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£1,492£1,741£1,990£2,238£2,736£3,233£3,730£4,477£5,223

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this postcode: most are in band F (31% of about 780 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), 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 38 address points in this postcode, 0 at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 4 at low risk. Each counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: none is in an area at risk. Surface water and small watercourses alone: 0 at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 4 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.

Height above sea level

The postcode's 38 addresses are between 6 m and 17 m above sea level (14 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 97%, gigabit 97% 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 stationsSwansea 2.3 million journeys in 2024–255.4 km
Gowerton 159,000 journeys in 2024–256.8 km
Llansamlet 38,000 journeys in 2024–2511.1 km
Bus stops5 stops within 400 m, 28 within 800 m; nearest Llwynderw Drive West Cross80 m
Bus or coach stationSwansea Bus Station Stand A4.6 km
Ferry terminalSwansea Queens Dock Ferry Terminal Swansea Ferry Terminal5.5 km
Car parksKnab Rock Car Park2.4 km
EV charging pointsOsprey Charging Station2.6 km
Airport with scheduled flightsCardiff International Airport CWL50.5 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 Mumbles Medical Practice1.3 km
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km; nearest Well610 m
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km; nearest Dental Surgery1.0 km
HospitalSingleton Hospital2.1 km
Police stationSketty Police Station3.1 km
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m; nearest MFG - Mumbles Cashzone590 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 garden5 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 5.6 ha220 m
Largest park within 800 mClyne Valley Country Park 294 ha730 m
Play area5 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 850 m²170 m
Playing fieldKing George V Playing Field 9.8 ha1.7 km
Allotments1 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 3,250 m²680 m

Within 800 m: 5 parks and gardens, 322 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Clyne Castle (also known as Neuadd Gilbertson), a listed building (Grade II*), 640 m north. 16 listed buildings are within 1.0 km, 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the postcode's centre
Clyne Castle (also known as Neuadd Gilbertson)Listed building, Grade II*640 m north
Clyne Wood Arsenic & Copper WorksScheduled monument850 m north
Clyne Wood Coal LevelScheduled monument1.3 km north
Clyne CastleRegistered park or garden, Grade I1.5 km north-west
Oystermouth CastleScheduled monument1.7 km south
Singleton Park and Sketty HallRegistered park or garden, Grade I2.5 km north-east
Natural landmarks within 5.0 km
NameWhat it isFrom the postcode's centre
Mayals WoodWood680 m west
Black StonesWetland1.4 km south
Colts HillHill1.6 km south-west
Traeth AbertaweBeach2.2 km north-east
Newton CliffCliff or slope3.4 km south-west
Pwll MawrLake or reservoir3.9 km north-west

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)5.14010
Fine particles (PM2.5)4.5205
Particles (PM10)6.94015

All three are within both the UK limits and the WHO guidelines.

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: 231 residents in 129 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 age6943
Children under 156%17%
Aged 65 and over55%21%

Homes

Around this postcodeWales
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)79%66%
Owned outright65%38%
Shared ownership8%under 1%
Social rented2%17%
Private rented11%17%

Work and commuting

Around this postcodeWales
Adults (16 and over) in work34%54%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)1%6%
Retired (of adults)57%25%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)under 1%6%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)39%26%
Travel to work by car or van49%61%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%under 1%
By any public transport, including bus4%3%
On foot or by bicycle8%8%
Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work)66%60%
Work 30 km or more away12%10%

Education and languages

Around this postcodeWales
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)45%32%
No qualifications16%20%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification8%6%
Main language English or Welsh (aged 3 and over)98%97%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%under 1%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this postcode is in decile 10 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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