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 269 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
HR3 5EA
Hay · Powys · Wales
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- HR3 5EA
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- HR
- Postcode district
- HR3
- Postcode sector
- HR3 5
- Latitude
- 52.071549
- Longitude
- -3.130377
- British National Grid easting
- 322,619
- British National Grid northing
- 242,067
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
- W00002380
- 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
2 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| New House, St Marys Road, Hay On Wye, Hereford, HR3 5EA | 27 July 2021 | £284,000 |
| The Kimberleys, St Marys Road, Hay On Wye, Hereford, HR3 5EA | 8 December 1996 | £76,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 3
- Primary
- 1
- Secondary
- 0
- 269 m
Hay-On-Wye C.P. School
Welsh establishment
- 1.9 km
Clyro C.I.W. School
Welsh establishment
- 4.9 km
Clifford Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 108
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 57
- Anti social behaviour 12
- Burglary 10
- Shoplifting 7
- Criminal damage and arson 7
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 5
- Postcode households
- 5
- Residents per household
- 1.0
- HR3 5 residents
- 4,516
4 female, 1 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 0.1% 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+
- 83.3%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 83.3%
- Gigabit-capable
- 83.3%
- 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
Hay Fire Station
BCT · Hay-on-Wye
- 0.1 miles
Hay Fire Station
BCT · Hay-on-Wye
- 0.2 miles
Hay Castle
BCT · Hay-on-Wye
- 0.3 miles
Hay Castle
BCT · Hay-on-Wye
- 0.3 miles
Hay-on-Wye ClockTower
BCT · Hay-on-Wye
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
108 published events cover 12 months, averaging 9 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 57 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.