Schools
8 open schools are in scope, including 0 primary and 0 secondary schools. Christ College is the nearest published school at 217 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LD3 7DN
Brecon East · Powys · Wales
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Brecon East
- Local authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe
- Postcode district
- LD3
- Postcode sector
- LD3 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LD3 7DN
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 June 1997
- Postcode area
- LD
- Postcode district
- LD3
- Postcode sector
- LD3 7
- Latitude
- 51.945878
- Longitude
- -3.390838
- British National Grid easting
- 304,500
- British National Grid northing
- 228,400
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- Wales · W92000004
- Region
- W99999999
- Local authority district
- Powys · W06000023
- Electoral ward
- Brecon East · W05001120
- Parish or community
- W04000255
- Westminster constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe · W07000085
- Output area
- W00002636
- Lower layer super output area
- Powys 017D · W01000492
- Middle layer super output area
- Powys 017 · W02000113
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 LD3
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 8
- Primary
- 0
- Secondary
- 0
- 217 m
Christ College
Welsh establishment
- 390 m
Ysgol Penmaes
Welsh establishment
- 427 m
Ysgol Golwg Pen y Fan
Welsh establishment
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 835
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 382
- Criminal damage and arson 108
- Public order 78
- Anti social behaviour 66
- Drugs 43
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- LD3 7 residents
- 5,564
Age bands in LD3 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 12.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 26.9%
725 residents
476 residents
1,361 residents
1,634 residents
1,546 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.
GP practices
2
within 5 km straight-line
TY HENRY VAUGHAN
BRIDGE STREET, BRECON, LD3 8AH
ODS code W96003
360 m
BRECON MEDICAL FACILITY
DERING LINES, BRECON, LD3 7RA
ODS code W00199
1.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Bulwark
BCT · Brecon
- 0.1 miles
Free Street
BCT · Brecon
- 0.2 miles
Brecon Interchange
BCT · Brecon
- 0.2 miles
Brecon Interchange 1
BCS · Brecon
- 0.2 miles
Brecon Interchange 2
BCS · Brecon
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
835 published events cover 12 months, averaging 69.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 382 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.