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 351 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
HR3 5BY
Hay · Powys · Wales
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- HR3 5BY
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 June 2003
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- HR
- Postcode district
- HR3
- Postcode sector
- HR3 5
- Latitude
- 52.075422
- Longitude
- -3.124974
- British National Grid easting
- 322,996
- British National Grid northing
- 242,492
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
- W00002379
- 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
5 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 3, Kemish Place, Hay On Wye, Hereford, HR3 5BY | 30 July 2014 | £180,000 |
| 1, Kemish Place, Hay On Wye, Hereford, HR3 5BY | 10 October 2008 | £170,000 |
| 4, Kemish Place, Hay On Wye, Hereford, HR3 5BY | 18 October 1999 | £65,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 3
- Primary
- 1
- Secondary
- 0
- 351 m
Hay-On-Wye C.P. School
Welsh establishment
- 2.1 km
Clyro C.I.W. School
Welsh establishment
- 4.3 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
- 7
- Postcode households
- 4
- Residents per household
- 1.8
- HR3 5 residents
- 4,516
7 female, 0 male
Age bands in HR3 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 12.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 7.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 17.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 32.5%
632 residents
373 residents
860 residents
1,439 residents
1,590 residents
This postcode contained 0.2% 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 Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Clock Tower
BCT · Hay-on-Wye
- 0.1 miles
Hay-on-Wye ClockTower
BCT · Hay-on-Wye
- 0.1 miles
Hay Castle
BCT · Hay-on-Wye
- 0.2 miles
Hay Castle
BCT · Hay-on-Wye
- 0.3 miles
Lower Mead
BCT · Cusop
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
107 published events cover 12 months, averaging 8.917 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.