Schools
8 open schools are in scope, including 0 primary and 0 secondary schools. Llanfaes C.P. School is the nearest published school at 0.8 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LD3 8EF
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 8EF
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 April 1986
- Terminated
- 1 November 2025
- Postcode area
- LD
- Postcode district
- LD3
- Postcode sector
- LD3 8
- Latitude
- 51.945576
- Longitude
- -3.416858
- British National Grid easting
- 302,711
- British National Grid northing
- 228,401
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
- W00002642
- Lower layer super output area
- Powys 020D · W01001897
- 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 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 8
- Primary
- 0
- Secondary
- 0
- 1.3 km
Llanfaes C.P. School
Welsh establishment
- 1.4 km
South Powys Pupil Referral Unit
Welsh establishment
- 1.6 km
Christ College
Welsh establishment
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 324
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 162
- Criminal damage and arson 35
- Public order 30
- Anti social behaviour 25
- Other theft 19
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%
- 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
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+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- 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 straight-line
TY HENRY VAUGHAN
BRIDGE STREET, BRECON, LD3 8AH
ODS code W96003
1.5 km
BRECON MEDICAL FACILITY
DERING LINES, BRECON, LD3 7RA
ODS code W00199
3.6 km
Nearby transport
- 0.6 miles
St David's Church
BCT · Llanfaes
- 0.7 miles
St David`s Church
BCT · Llanfaes
- 0.8 miles
Brecon Cemetery
BCT · Pendre
- 0.9 miles
Cradoc Close
BCT · Pendre
- 1.0 miles
St. Cattwg's Church
BCT · Llanspyddid
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
324 published events cover 12 months, averaging 27 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 162 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.