Schools
3 open schools are in scope, including 0 primary and 0 secondary schools. Ysgol Calon Cymru is the nearest published school at 439 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LD2 3BY
Builth · Powys · Wales
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Builth Wells
- Ward
- Builth
- Local authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe
- Postcode district
- LD2
- Postcode sector
- LD2 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LD2 3BY
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- LD
- Postcode district
- LD2
- Postcode sector
- LD2 3
- Latitude
- 52.150798
- Longitude
- -3.413732
- British National Grid easting
- 303,370
- British National Grid northing
- 251,221
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- Wales · W92000004
- Region
- W99999999
- Local authority district
- Powys · W06000023
- Electoral ward
- Builth · W05001123
- Parish or community
- W04000257
- Westminster constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe · W07000085
- Output area
- W00002296
- Lower layer super output area
- Powys 014B · W01000432
- Middle layer super output area
- Powys 014 · W02000110
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 LD2
Property
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 1, The Bungalows, Builth Wells, LD2 3BY | 5 December 1997 | £43,995 |
Schools
Within 5 km of this postcode
- Open schools
- 3
- Primary
- 0
- Secondary
- 0
- 439 m
Ysgol Calon Cymru
Welsh establishment
- 523 m
Builth Wells C.P. School
Welsh establishment
- 1.3 km
Llanelwedd C.I.W. School
Welsh establishment
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 260
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 133
- Criminal damage and arson 26
- Anti social behaviour 25
- Public order 20
- Shoplifting 12
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 37
- 21 female, 16 male
- Postcode households
- 29
- Residents per household
- 1.3
- LD2 3 residents
- 5,610
Age bands in LD2 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.2%
- 793 residents
- Age 15 to 24
- 9%
- 506 residents
- Age 25 to 44
- 18.8%
- 1,054 residents
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.5%
- 1,594 residents
- Age 65 and over
- 29.5%
- 1,655 residents
This postcode contained 0.7% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider LD2 3 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+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- 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, coverage at January 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
1
within 5 km straight-line
MAESYCOED
BUILTH WELLS MEDICAL PRACTICE, GLANDWR PARK, BUILTH WELLS, LD2 3DZ
ODS code W96007
225 m
Nearby transport
- 80 m
Pendre Surgery
BCT · Builth Wells
- 97 m
Brynhyfryd
BCT · Builth Wells
- 248 m
Broadway
BCT · Builth Wells
- 429 m
Builth Wells High School
BCT · Builth Wells
- 518 m
Hospital Road
BCT · Builth Wells
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
260 published events cover 12 months, averaging 22 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 133 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.