Property market
The five-year median is £438,000 from 2 recorded sales in LD1 5SW. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Powys is £231,004 in June 2026, up 2.9% year on year.
LD1 5SW
Ithon Valley · Powys · Wales
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Llandrindod Wells
- Ward
- Ithon Valley
- Local authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe
- Postcode district
- LD1
- Postcode sector
- LD1 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LD1 5SW
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- LD
- Postcode district
- LD1
- Postcode sector
- LD1 5
- Latitude
- 52.256333
- Longitude
- -3.309574
- British National Grid easting
- 310,708
- British National Grid northing
- 262,825
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- Wales · W92000004
- Region
- W99999999
- Local authority district
- Powys · W06000023
- Electoral ward
- Ithon Valley · W05001136
- Parish or community
- W04000338
- Westminster constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe · W07000085
- Output area
- W00002408
- Lower layer super output area
- Powys 012B · W01000451
- Middle layer super output area
- Powys 012 · W02000108
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 LD1
Property
17 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Ty Afon, Penybont, Llandrindod Wells, LD1 5SW | 20 March 2025 | £440,000 |
| Gattyn Lodge, Penybont, Llandrindod Wells, LD1 5SW | 22 November 2023 | £436,000 |
| Hill View, Penybont, Llandrindod Wells, LD1 5SW | 19 August 2015 | £205,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 2
- Primary
- 0
- Secondary
- 0
- 2.8 km
Crossgates C.P. School
Welsh establishment
- 4.7 km
Ysgol Trefonnen Church In Wales Community Primary
Welsh establishment
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 9
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 6
- Vehicle crime 1
- Anti social behaviour 1
- Possession of weapons 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 49
- Postcode households
- 22
- Residents per household
- 2.2
- LD1 5 residents
- 6,115
27 female, 22 male
Age bands in LD1 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 19.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 29.8%
835 residents
466 residents
1,138 residents
1,635 residents
1,733 residents
This postcode contained 0.8% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider LD1 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+
- 80%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 80%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 80%
- Gigabit-capable
- 80%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 4%
- Next Generation Access
- 84%
- 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.
GP practices
1
within 5 km
LLANDRINDOD WELLS MEDICAL PRACTICE
SPA ROAD EAST, LLANDRINDOD WELLS, LD1 5ES
ODS code W96013
5.0 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.9 miles
Bryn Thomas Turning
BCT · Penybont
- 0.9 miles
Severn Arms
BCT · Penybont
- 0.9 miles
Post Office
BCT · Penybont
- 1.3 miles
Pen-y-Bont Rail Station
RLY · Penybont
- 1.3 miles
Pen-y-Bont Railway Station
BCT · Crossgates
Evidence in context
Schools
2 open schools are in scope, including 0 primary and 0 secondary schools. Crossgates C.P. School is the nearest published school at 1.7 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
9 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 6 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.