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 225 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
HR3 5EH
Hay · Powys · Wales
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Hay
- Local authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe
- Postcode district
- HR3
- Postcode sector
- HR3 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- HR3 5EH
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 September 1981
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- HR
- Postcode district
- HR3
- Postcode sector
- HR3 5
- Latitude
- 52.070939
- Longitude
- -3.124569
- British National Grid easting
- 323,016
- British National Grid northing
- 241,993
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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 3
- Primary
- 1
- Secondary
- 0
- 225 m
Hay-On-Wye C.P. School
Welsh establishment
- 2.3 km
Clyro C.I.W. School
Welsh establishment
- 4.6 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
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- HR3 5 residents
- 4,516
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
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.
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Hay Castle
BCT · Hay-on-Wye
- 0.2 miles
Hay Castle
BCT · Hay-on-Wye
- 0.3 miles
Hay-on-Wye ClockTower
BCT · Hay-on-Wye
- 0.3 miles
Lower Mead
BCT · Cusop
- 0.3 miles
Clock Tower
BCT · Hay-on-Wye
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.