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 489 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
HR3 5FE
Golden Valley North · Herefordshire, County of · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Golden Valley North
- Local authority
- Herefordshire, County of
- Constituency
- Hereford and South Herefordshire
- Postcode district
- HR3
- Postcode sector
- HR3 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- HR3 5FE
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 May 2013
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- HR
- Postcode district
- HR3
- Postcode sector
- HR3 5
- Latitude
- 52.073565
- Longitude
- -3.119835
- British National Grid easting
- 323,345
- British National Grid northing
- 242,280
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Herefordshire, County of · E06000019
- Electoral ward
- Golden Valley North · E05009454
- Parish or community
- E04000736
- Westminster constituency
- Hereford and South Herefordshire · E14001281
- Output area
- E00070771
- Lower layer super output area
- Herefordshire 020A · E01014018
- Middle layer super output area
- Herefordshire 020 · E02002924
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
- 489 m
Hay-On-Wye C.P. School
Welsh establishment
- 2.5 km
Clyro C.I.W. School
Welsh establishment
- 4.1 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
- 1
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- HR3 5 residents
- 4,516
1 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% 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.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Lower Mead
BCT · Cusop
- 0.0 miles
Lower Mead
BCT · Cusop
- 0.2 miles
Nantyglasdwr Lane
BCT · Cusop
- 0.2 miles
Nantyglasdwr Lane
BCT · Cusop
- 0.2 miles
Hay Castle
BCT · Hay-on-Wye
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Herefordshire 020A, the published LSOA linked to this postcode. Decile 1 contains the most deprived 10% of English LSOAs and decile 10 the least deprived 10%.
Overall IMD decile
5 of 10
Overall England rank
16,711 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 of 10
These are relative area statistics, not measures of an individual household, affluence or absolute change. They cannot be compared with indices for other UK nations. Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025, version 2025-v2.
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.