Cardiff
Cardiff is covered by postcode districts CF3, CF5, CF11, CF14, CF23, CF24 and 6 more. It is mostly in the Cardiff council area: 7,258 of its 7,283 postcodes. The others are in Vale of Glamorgan.
Every postcode in Cardiff, by gigabit broadband
- No home or business can get gigabit: 320
- Some can get gigabit: 792
- Every home and business can get gigabit: 5,839
- Ofcom gives no figure: 332
- Outline: where 5 or more postcodes without gigabit lie together
Of the 7,283 postcodes in Cardiff that ONS places, 320 have no home or business that can get gigabit, 792 have some that can, 5,839 can all get it and 332 have no Ofcom figure.
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. A dashed outline shows where 5 or more lie within 150 metres of each other. It is not a boundary, and 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 51.4993, longitude -3.1850. Open this area on OpenStreetMap
Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 2026; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Ordnance Survey open maps. 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.
Postcodes without gigabit
320 postcodes here have no gigabit. These are the 12 first in postcode order.
Where the postcodes without gigabit lie together
- 29 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. CF10 5BN, is the one nearest the middle of them.
- 15 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. CF10 2DB, is the one nearest the middle of them.
- 15 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. CF10 3NP, is the one nearest the middle of them.
- 11 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. CF14 5JA, is the one nearest the middle of them.
- 10 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. CF5 5TQ, is the one nearest the middle of them.
- 6 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. CF10 5JU, is the one nearest the middle of them.
What is it like to live in Cardiff?
Homes sold for a typical £271,750 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 5,839 of the 6,951 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. It has 92 primary schools and 18 secondary schools at its postcodes within 12 km of its centre. At least 5 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Cathays, 1.2 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.
We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge.
Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data; Ofcom Connected Nations; Welsh Government school list; NHS GP practices; NaPTAN. Each figure is from a section of this page, which gives its date.
What do homes cost in Cardiff?
Homes in Cardiff sold for a typical £271,750 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 3,370 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £265,000 from 4,291 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.
- Detached £450,000 446 sales
- Semi-detached £305,000 898 sales
- Terraced £265,250 1,316 sales
- Flat or maisonette £165,000 710 sales
Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.
Across the whole CF14 district, Cardiff's main postcode district: a typical £337,000.
Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Cardiff: 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 October 2026.
Are new homes being built in Cardiff?
239 of the 7,283 postcodes now in use in Cardiff came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 54 of the 4,291 homes sold in Cardiff were newly built (1%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the CF14 district, 7%.
The newest postcodes
A new postcode is often a new street or estate, but Royal Mail also makes new postcodes when it reorganises old ones, so not every one means new homes. Only postcodes still in use are counted.
New homes among the homes sold
| Period | In Cardiff | Across the CF14 district |
|---|---|---|
| The 12 months to September 2026 | 3 of 3,370 (Under 1%) | 12 of 865 (1%) |
| The 12 months to September 2025 | 54 of 4,291 (1%) | 80 of 1,131 (7%) |
Standard sales of homes at market value that HM Land Registry marks as newly built. New homes take longer to be registered than other sales, so the latest 12 months count fewer of them than were sold. A share is given from 5 sales or more.
Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.
What broadband can you get in Cardiff?
Ofcom reports on 6,951 of the 7,283 postcodes in Cardiff. At 5,839 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 1 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s).
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 checkerSource: Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026.
Which schools are in Cardiff?
The open schools at the postcodes in Cardiff (the first 8 primaries by distance from its middle). A school for ages 4 to 18 is listed under both. Distances are straight lines from the middle of its postcodes. Distance is not a catchment: each council sets its own admission rules.
Primary
- Fairoak Primary School250 m My Local School
- Ysgol Mynydd Bychan300 m My Local School
- St Monicas C/W Primary School350 m My Local School
- St. Joseph's RC School750 m My Local School
- Roath Park Primary School1.0 km My Local School
- Albany Primary School1.3 km My Local School
- Birchgrove Primary School1.7 km My Local School
- Marlborough Primary1.8 km My Local School
Source: Welsh Government school list, read 27 October 2026. Each school opens its page on My Local School.
How far is the station from Cardiff?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Cardiff is Cathays Rail Station, 1.2 km away in a straight line.
- Cathays Rail Station Railway station 1.2 kmCycle
- Heath Low Level Rail Station Railway station 1.8 kmCycle
- Heath High Level Rail Station Railway station 1.9 kmCycle
Straight-line distances from the centre point, not routes. Walk: under 1.2 km. Cycle: 1.2 to 5 km. Drive: further.
Straight-line distances from the middle of the postcodes, not routes. Each postcode page lists its own nearest stations and bus stops. The Department for Transport's register does not say how often services run.
Source: NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
Which GP surgeries are in Cardiff?
The GP practices at the postcodes in Cardiff, the first 5 by distance from its middle. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.
- Crwys Medical Centre Phone 029 2052 4140 500 mWalk
- Cathays Surgery Phone 029 2035 3020 500 mWalk
- North Road Medical Practice Phone 029 2061 9188 650 mWalk
- Whitchurch Road Surgery Phone 029 2185 1190 700 mWalk
- Meddygfa Albany Surgery Phone 029 2048 6561 1.2 kmCycle
Source: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026.
Is Cardiff safe? Crime recorded around it
Police.uk records 4,736 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Cardiff over the 12 months from September 2025 to August 2026. August 2026 is the latest month it has published. These are counts, not a rate: we hold no count of the people who live, work or pass through, so we do not say whether a place is safe.
Each month, September 2025 to August 2026
- 378 September 2025
- 451 October 2025
- 422 November 2025
- 329 December 2025
- 338 January 2026
- 310 February 2026
- 339 March 2026
- 391 April 2026
- 433 May 2026
- 409 June 2026
- 489 July 2026
- 447 August 2026
By kind, over the 12 months
Also: burglary 153, drugs 118, robbery 73, other crime 61, possession of weapons 54, theft from the person 26.
Police.uk says its locations "always represent the approximate location of a crime". Each crime is moved to the nearest of a fixed list of map points, each over a street centre, a public place or a commercial premises, chosen so that every point covers at least eight addresses or none. A mile is a wide circle: in a town it takes in the centre and its shops, where much crime is recorded.
Crime around one postcodeSource: police.uk, data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026.
Who runs Cardiff?
- Councils
- Cardiff (7,258) and Vale of Glamorgan (25)
- Parliamentary constituencies
- Cardiff East (2,056), Cardiff North (1,844), Cardiff West (1,782) and 2 others
- Police force area
- South Wales
- Country
- Wales
Where the place crosses a boundary, a row lists each side with its number of postcodes. Check a postcode for its own. What council am I in?
Source: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026.
Moving to Cardiff
Who to tell and what to sort out in your first week. Most of Cardiff is in Cardiff; near its edge, check which council a postcode is in.
- Tell Cardiff about council tax Council tax, on cardiff.gov.uk
- Register to vote at the new address Register to vote on GOV.UK
- Register with a GP practice The GP practices in Cardiff
- Take meter readings on the day you move in
- Power cut? Call 105. It is free. About 105, the power cut number
- Find out your bin day Check your bin day on BinDayBuddy, which reads the council's own collection system
Cardiff postcodes
7,283 postcodes in use in Cardiff, by district:
Those districts are all in the CF postcode area.
Check a Cardiff postcode
Enter a full postcode to see its ward, its flood risk, house prices in its sector and its nearest schools.
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Places near Cardiff
With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Cardiff's £271,750. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.
Quick answers about Cardiff
- What is the postcode for Cardiff?
- Postcode districts CF3, CF5, CF11, CF14, CF23, CF24 and 6 more, with 7,283 postcodes in use. Source: ONS.
- How much are houses in Cardiff?
- A typical £271,750 in the 12 months to September 2026, from 3,370 sales. Source: HM Land Registry.
- What schools are in Cardiff?
- Primary schools at its postcodes include Fairoak Primary School, Ysgol Mynydd Bychan and St Monicas C/W Primary School; secondary schools at its postcodes include Cathays High School, Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Bro Edern and Cardiff High School. Source: Welsh Government.
- Does Cardiff have a railway station?
- Yes: Cathays station, 1.2 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport.
- What broadband can you get in Cardiff?
- Ofcom reports on 6,951 of the 7,283 postcodes in Cardiff. At 5,839 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 1 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s). Source: Ofcom.
- Are new homes being built in Cardiff?
- 239 of the 7,283 postcodes now in use in Cardiff came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 54 of the 4,291 homes sold in Cardiff were newly built (1%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the CF14 district, 7%. Source: ONS and HM Land Registry.
Where the facts on this page come from
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory
- Ofcom Connected Nations
- HM Land Registry Price Paid Data
- Welsh Government school list
- Department for Transport: NaPTAN
- NHS England: NHS GP practices
- data.police.uk: police.uk
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