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SA43

Postcode district

Postcode district covering Cardigan and St Dogmaels, in Ceredigion and Pembrokeshire.

Approximate outline worked out by Open Index from the ONS Postcode Directory: each census output area belongs to the district that holds most of its postcodes. People, homes, recorded crime and broadband add up those output areas. House sales count every sale with an SA43 postcode. How census figures are added up

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Gigabit coverage by postcode district

Connected Nations (Ofcom) · January 2026

Under 60%98% or more

In SA43, 38.6% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.

Median sale price
£238,750
670th cheapest of 2,235
Worked out by Open Index
Population
12,310
859th least populated of 2,756
ONS Census 2021 · 2021
Gigabit broadband coverage
38.6%
UK 87.8%
Ofcom · Jan 2026
Claimant rate
3.6%
UK 3.9%
ONS via Nomis · Aug 2026

How SA43 compares

Each dot is a postcode district. The black line marks the middle one.

SA43Middle
Median sale price49 postcode districts, SA · 2025
Median sale price: every postcode district in SA49 areas from £140,000 to £440,000. The middle area is £225,000. SA43 is £238,750.
£238,75020th most expensive
Population52 postcode districts, SA · 2021
Population: every postcode district in SA52 areas from 256 to 51,694. The middle area is 10,195. SA43 is 12,310.
12,31021st most populated
Gigabit broadband coverage52 postcode districts, SA · Jan 2026
Gigabit broadband coverage: every postcode district in SA52 areas from 13.7% to 98.5%. The middle area is 75.2%. SA43 is 38.6%.
38.6%9th lowest
Claimant rate47 postcode districts, SA · Aug 2026
Claimant rate: every postcode district in SA47 areas from 1.7% to 5.2%. The middle area is 3.1%. SA43 is 3.6%.
3.6%13th highest

Is SA43 safe? What police records show

In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in SA43 at a rate of 81.9 per 1,000 people.

That compares with 86.6 per 1,000 people across SA.

In August 2026 alone, 82 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in SA43.

In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (498), other crime (202) and criminal damage and arson (87).

A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in SA43 was 79.9 per 1,000 people.

Worked out by Open Index from police.uk crime records and ONS and NISRA population estimates.

Rates are per resident, so places that many people work in or visit, such as Westminster, the City of London and other city centres, have far higher rates than their residents alone would suggest.

Deprivation in SA43, neighbourhood by neighbourhood

  • Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so SA43 has no single figure. Of its 9 neighbourhoods with a rank:
  • Decile 1 (Wales’s most deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
  • Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
  • Decile 4: 2 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 5: 2 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
  • Decile 7: 2 neighbourhoods

Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in Wales.

Neighbourhoods in SA43

NamePeople (census)Recorded crime per 1,000Deprivation decileGigabit broadband
Ceredigion 009A1,14035.2 per 1,000751.8%
Ceredigion 009B1,04367.6 per 1,00042.4%
Ceredigion 009C1,86241.4 per 1,000563.2%
Ceredigion 009D1,182157.9 per 1,000361.0%
Ceredigion 009E1,174224.2 per 1,000144.4%
Ceredigion 009F1,13678.4 per 1,000432.5%
Ceredigion 009G1,13745.3 per 1,000734.3%
Pembrokeshire 001A2,12053.8 per 1,000529.8%
Pembrokeshire 001E2,05853.0 per 1,000618.7%

Your MP

As of , from the UK Parliament Members API. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.

Middle areas in SA431

Postcode sectors in SA434

Councils SA43 covers2

Postcode districts next to SA435

More in the SA postcode area2

SA43 in brief

SA43 is a postcode district covering Cardigan and St Dogmaels, in Ceredigion and Pembrokeshire.

About 12,425 people lived in SA43 in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £238,750 in 2025 across 180 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 81.9 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).

The median price paid for a home in SA43 was £238,750 in 2025.

SA43 had 12,310 usual residents at the census.

In SA43, 38.6% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.

In SA43, 3.6% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.