SA4 9FT Swansea

Live postcode, introduced May 2024. Ward: Penllergaer.

Streets

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.

ABCDEFGHI
£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 B (43% of about 650 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 48 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.

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 stationsGowerton 159,000 journeys in 2024–253.2 km
Llangennech 4,320 journeys in 2024–255.1 km
Pontarddulais 6,410 journeys in 2024–255.5 km
Bus stops5 stops within 400 m, 20 within 800 m; nearest Heol Dewi Sant Penllergaer180 m
Bus or coach stationGorseinon Bus Station Stand 32.2 km
Ferry terminalSwansea Queens Dock Ferry Terminal Swansea Ferry Terminal8.9 km
Car parksSainsbury's Gorseinon Car Park2.2 km
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km; nearest Gridserve Charging Station1.3 km
Airport with scheduled flightsCardiff International Airport CWL55.6 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 surgeriesTy'r Felin Surgery1.9 km
PharmaciesGorseinon Pharmacy1.8 km
NHS dentistsDental Surgery1.9 km
HospitalGorseinon Hospital2.6 km
Police stationGorseinon Police Station2.1 km
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m; nearest Rontec - Cross, Penllergaer Cashzone790 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 garden2 within 800 m; nearest Gorseinon Common 3.5 ha280 m
Play area2 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 460 m²320 m
Playing field1 within 800 m; nearest Unnamed 1.6 ha800 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 1,610 m²1.6 km

Within 800 m: 2 parks and gardens, 4.0 hectares in all.

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: 323 residents in 137 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 age3643
Children under 1523%17%
Aged 65 and over16%21%

Homes

Around this postcodeWales
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)53%66%
Owned outright26%38%
Shared ownership0%under 1%
Social rented36%17%
Private rented11%17%

Work and commuting

Around this postcodeWales
Adults (16 and over) in work57%54%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)1%6%
Retired (of adults)18%25%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)5%6%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)26%26%
Travel to work by car or van63%61%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%under 1%
By any public transport, including busunder 1%3%
On foot or by bicycle9%8%
Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work)81%60%
Work 30 km or more away9%10%

Education and languages

Around this postcodeWales
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)25%32%
No qualifications24%20%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%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 3 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 Fern Drive.