Property market
The five-year median is £340,000 from 3 recorded sales in HR3 5AR. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Powys is £231,004 in June 2026, up 2.9% year on year.
HR3 5AR
Hay · Powys · Wales
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- HR3 5AR
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- HR
- Postcode district
- HR3
- Postcode sector
- HR3 5
- Latitude
- 52.074695
- Longitude
- -3.121979
- British National Grid easting
- 323,200
- British National Grid northing
- 242,408
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- Wales · W92000004
- Region
- W99999999
- Local authority district
- Powys · W06000023
- Electoral ward
- Hay · W05001135
- Parish or community
- W04000281
- Westminster constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe · W07000085
- Output area
- W00002381
- Lower layer super output area
- Powys 015D · W01000446
- Middle layer super output area
- Powys 015 · W02000111
Postcode source versions
- Ordnance Survey: Code-Point Open Version 2026-08 · Current postcode units in Great Britain · OGL-3.0
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory Version 2026-08 · United Kingdom; Northern Ireland excluded pending rights review; Crown Dependencies outside product scope · OGL-3.0 with third-party rights
- Ordnance Survey: Boundary-Line Version 2026-05 · Local-authority boundaries in Great Britain · OS OpenData Licence
Explore HR3
Property
12 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 1, Black Lion Green, Hay On Wye, Hereford, HR3 5AR | 5 October 2023 | £180,000 |
| Dinglefield Cottage, Black Lion Green, Hereford, HR3 5AR | 9 February 2023 | £517,000 |
| 7, Black Lion Green, Hay On Wye, Hereford, HR3 5AR | 15 July 2022 | £340,000 |
Schools
Within 5 km of this postcode
- Open schools
- 3
- Primary
- 1
- Secondary
- 0
- 411 m
Hay-On-Wye C.P. School
Welsh establishment
- 2.4 km
Clyro C.I.W. School
Welsh establishment
- 4.2 km
Clifford Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 107
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 55
- Anti social behaviour 12
- Burglary 11
- Shoplifting 7
- Criminal damage and arson 7
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 18
- 10 female, 8 male
- Postcode households
- 10
- Residents per household
- 1.8
- HR3 5 residents
- 4,516
Age bands in HR3 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 12.9%
- 632 residents
- Age 15 to 24
- 7.6%
- 373 residents
- Age 25 to 44
- 17.6%
- 860 residents
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.4%
- 1,439 residents
- Age 65 and over
- 32.5%
- 1,590 residents
This postcode contained 0.4% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider HR3 5 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
Small counts are adjusted for privacy, so totals can differ slightly between Census tables.
Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, coverage at January 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Nearby transport
- 233 m
Lower Mead
BCT · Cusop
- 233 m
Lower Mead
BCT · Cusop
- 270 m
Hay Castle
BCT · Hay-on-Wye
- 289 m
Clock Tower
BCT · Hay-on-Wye
- 306 m
Hay-on-Wye ClockTower
BCT · Hay-on-Wye
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 1
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Schools
3 open schools are in scope, including 1 primary and 0 secondary schools. Hay-On-Wye C.P. School is the nearest published school at 411 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
107 published events cover 12 months, averaging 9 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 55 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.