CF36 postcode district: Porthcawl and around, Bridgend

CF36 is a postcode district in Wales, with 412 postcodes in use in 3 sectors. It has postcodes in Porthcawl. Its council is Bridgend.

Postcodes in use: 412
Sectors: 3
Council: Bridgend
Places: Porthcawl

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. See all our data sources

Every postcode in CF36, and which are new since 2020

New since 2020: 9
In use before 2020: 403

Of the 412 postcodes in CF36 that ONS places, 9 are new since 2020 and 403 were in use before 2020.

Each mark is a postcode's centre point as ONS gives it, not a building. Press one to see its postcode and open its page. New since 2020 means it came into use in January 2020 or later. No boundary is drawn. Where marks overlap, the one first in the key is drawn; the counts include every postcode.

The middle of its postcodes: latitude 51.4852, longitude -3.6993. Open this area on OpenStreetMap

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026, the centre point of each postcode; when each came into use: the same directory; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Drawn by us. Street map: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Zoomstack, Open Government Licence v3.0, drawn with MapLibre. How we use them

The 5 newest postcodes

CF36 5TDJune 2024 CF36 3FDSeptember 2023 CF36 3XDJuly 2023 CF36 5DSFebruary 2023 CF36 3FBOctober 2022

3 further out, not drawn

These postcodes lie well apart from the rest, so the map is drawn without them to show the rest closer; they are in every count.

CF36 3EX CF36 3PJ CF36 5TA

What broadband can you get in CF36?

Ofcom reports on 405 of the 412 postcodes in CF36. At 378 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit378 of 405

Postcodes where every home can get superfast396 of 405

Ofcom gives each postcode's share of homes and businesses, not how many there are, so these count postcodes. Each postcode page has its own figures. A provider's checker answers for one address.

Check one address on Ofcom's checker

Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

What do homes sell for in CF36?

Homes in CF36 sold for a typical £325,775 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 233 sales, up 3.4% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

£325,775 typical price, the 12 months to August 2026

£315,000 12 months to August 2025

▲ up 3.4% on the 12 months before

Detached £437,000 80 sales
Semi-detached £320,000 77 sales
Terraced £240,000 39 sales
Flat or maisonette £168,000 37 sales

Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.

Standard sales of homes at market value. A typical price is the median, the middle sale. Sales take weeks to be registered, so the last month or two are incomplete. Each postcode page gives the figure for its own postcode sector.

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it