Postcodes in Cardiff District

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This article covers information about postcodes in Cardiff's local authority district. Cardiff is an administrative area in South Glamorgan County. Cardiff district is further divided into 28 Wards.

Below is a complete list of Cardiff Postcodes, it has 7661 active postcodes. Cardiff contains approximately 142596 residential properties with a population of about 346186.

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Cardiff Postcode and Census - Statistical Overview


Population 346186
Addresses / Property Count 142596
Active Postcodes 7661
County South Glamorgan
No Of Wards in Cardiff 28

What is a District

The United Kingdom is primarily divided into large area blocks called Counties. A district is an administrative block in the UK and part of a County council area. The district is also the second-largest administrative block in the UK after counties. These are also known as local authority districts and are different from city districts. Cardiff is a local authority district in South Glamorgan county. Districts are majorly categorized into 4 types namely:

  • Non-Metropolitan districts
  • Unitary authority areas
  • Metropolitan boroughs
  • London boroughs

Sub Divisions Of a district

Districts are subdivided into different local administrative blocks. Other categories of local administrative blocks that comes under district authority are as follows:

  • Parish
  • Wards
  • Cities

View Map Of Cardiff Wards


This map shows all wards in the district of Cardiff, zoom to view all the pointers. If you click on any pointer you can see the ward name. Below the ward name, you can see a link called view postcodes. Click on the link to see the postcodes for that ward.

List of Cardiff postcodes


showing 7700-7661 of 7661 active postcodes in Cardiff
Postcode Ward Latitude Longitude
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