Schools
8 open schools are in scope, including 0 primary and 0 secondary schools. Christ College is the nearest published school at 92 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LD3 8AF
Brecon West · Powys · Wales
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Brecon West
- Local authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe
- Postcode district
- LD3
- Postcode sector
- LD3 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LD3 8AF
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 March 2008
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- LD
- Postcode district
- LD3
- Postcode sector
- LD3 8
- Latitude
- 51.946113
- Longitude
- -3.395283
- British National Grid easting
- 304,195
- British National Grid northing
- 228,432
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- Wales · W92000004
- Region
- W99999999
- Local authority district
- Powys · W06000023
- Electoral ward
- Brecon West · W05001121
- Parish or community
- W04000255
- Westminster constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe · W07000085
- Output area
- W00002615
- Lower layer super output area
- Powys 017A · W01000489
- 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
- 92 m
Christ College
Welsh establishment
- 219 m
South Powys Pupil Referral Unit
Welsh establishment
- 354 m
Llanfaes C.P. School
Welsh establishment
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 840
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 385
- Criminal damage and arson 108
- Public order 78
- Anti social behaviour 66
- Drugs 43
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 82
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- LD3 8 residents
- 4,394
37 female, 45 male
Age bands in LD3 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 20.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 25.7%
705 residents
382 residents
923 residents
1,349 residents
1,160 residents
This postcode contained 1.9% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider LD3 8 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 Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
2
within 5 km
TY HENRY VAUGHAN
BRIDGE STREET, BRECON, LD3 8AH
ODS code W96003
128 m
BRECON MEDICAL FACILITY
DERING LINES, BRECON, LD3 7RA
ODS code W00199
2.1 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
- 0.2 miles
Bulwark
BCT · Brecon
- 0.3 miles
St David`s Church
BCT · Llanfaes
- 0.3 miles
Cotswold Outdoors
BCT · Brecon
- 0.3 miles
Cotswold Outdoors
BCT · Brecon
- 0.3 miles
St David's Church
BCT · Llanfaes
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
840 published events cover 12 months, averaging 70 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 385 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.