Schools
1 open school is in scope, including 0 primary and 0 secondary schools. Sennybridge C.P. School is the nearest published school at 4.0 km.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LD3 8AJ
Maescar and Llywel · Powys · Wales
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Maescar and Llywel
- 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 8AJ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 August 2016
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- LD
- Postcode district
- LD3
- Postcode sector
- LD3 8
- Latitude
- 51.924411
- Longitude
- -3.617015
- British National Grid easting
- 288,902
- British National Grid northing
- 226,334
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- Wales · W92000004
- Region
- W99999999
- Local authority district
- Powys · W06000023
- Electoral ward
- Maescar and Llywel · W05001159
- Parish or community
- W04000266
- Westminster constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe · W07000085
- Output area
- W00002524
- Lower layer super output area
- Powys 020B · W01000474
- Middle layer super output area
- Powys 020 · W02000414
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 5 km of this postcode
- Open schools
- 1
- Primary
- 0
- Secondary
- 0
- 4.0 km
Sennybridge C.P. School
Welsh establishment
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 7
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Criminal damage and arson 3
- Burglary 2
- Drugs 1
- Anti social behaviour 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- LD3 8 residents
- 4,394
Age bands in LD3 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.6%
- 705 residents
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.5%
- 382 residents
- Age 25 to 44
- 20.4%
- 923 residents
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.9%
- 1,349 residents
- Age 65 and over
- 25.7%
- 1,160 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.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 0%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 100%
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.
Nearby transport
- 2.1 km
Crai Turn
BCT · Cray
- 2.1 km
Crai Turn
BCT · Cray
- 3.1 km
Trecastell Community Centre
BCT · Trecastell
- 3.1 km
Trecastell Community Centre
BCT · Trecastell
- 3.9 km
Tanners Arms
BCT · Defynnog
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
7 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1 event per published month. The largest recorded category is Criminal damage and arson with 3 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.