Schools
2 open schools are in scope, including 0 primary and 0 secondary schools. Hay-On-Wye C.P. School is the nearest published school at 748 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
HR3 5TS
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 5TS
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 April 1987
- Terminated
- 1 June 2000
- Postcode area
- HR
- Postcode district
- HR3
- Postcode sector
- HR3 5
- Latitude
- 52.071480
- Longitude
- -3.137524
- British National Grid easting
- 322,129
- 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
- W00002382
- 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
- 2
- Primary
- 0
- Secondary
- 0
- 748 m
Hay-On-Wye C.P. School
Welsh establishment
- 1.5 km
Clyro C.I.W. School
Welsh establishment
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
- 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 Fire Station
BCT · Hay-on-Wye
- 0.2 miles
Hay Fire Station
BCT · Hay-on-Wye
- 0.5 miles
Hay Castle
BCT · Hay-on-Wye
- 0.5 miles
Hay-on-Wye ClockTower
BCT · Hay-on-Wye
- 0.5 miles
Hay Castle
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.