SA9 2SU Powys

Live postcode, introduced January 1980. Ward: Cwm-twrch.

Streets

No addresses are linked to this postcode in the ONS UPRN Directory.

Council tax

What each band costs in Powys in 2026-27: Band D £2,352 a year on average, including the police and community council charges.

A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H	I
£1,568	£1,829	£2,090	£2,352	£2,874	£3,397	£3,920	£4,703	£5,487

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this postcode: most are in band A (38% of about 1,030 homes).

A38%

B22%

C15%

D13%

E7%

F5%

G1%

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

Natural Resources Wales's flood risk map has not been checked against this postcode yet.

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

No Ofcom figures for this postcode.

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.

	Nearest	Distance
Railway stations	Neath 839,000 journeys in 2024–25	12.8 km
	Skewen 44,000 journeys in 2024–25	13.4 km
	Llansamlet 38,000 journeys in 2024–25	14.4 km
Bus stops	4 stops within 400 m, 13 within 800 m; nearest Cwmtwrch Welsh School Cwmtwrch Isaf	90 m
Car parks	ASDA Ystalyfera Car Park	2.3 km
EV charging points	Evolt Network	9.0 km
Airport with scheduled flights	Cardiff International Airport CWL	52.3 km

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: 402 residents in 188 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 postcode	Wales
Median age	46	43
Children under 15	15%	17%
Aged 65 and over	21%	21%

Homes

	Around this postcode	Wales
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)	73%	66%
Owned outright	50%	38%
Shared ownership	2%	under 1%
Social rented	2%	17%
Private rented	24%	17%

Work and commuting

	Around this postcode	Wales
Adults (16 and over) in work	56%	54%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)	6%	6%
Retired (of adults)	26%	25%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)	7%	6%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)	23%	26%
Travel to work by car or van	68%	61%
By train, Underground, metro or tram	under 1%	under 1%
By any public transport, including bus	2%	3%
On foot or by bicycle	6%	8%
Work within 10 km of home (of those who travel to work)	34%	60%
Work 30 km or more away	25%	10%

Education and languages

	Around this postcode	Wales
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)	30%	32%
No qualifications	18%	20%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification	8%	6%
Main language English or Welsh (aged 3 and over)	100%	97%
Cannot speak English well or at all	0%	under 1%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this postcode is in decile 4 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.