Property market
The five-year median is £170,000 from 1 recorded sale in LD3 8SB. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Powys is £231,004 in June 2026, up 2.9% year on year.
LD3 8SB
Maescar and Llywel · Powys · Wales
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Brecon
- 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 8SB
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- LD
- Postcode district
- LD3
- Postcode sector
- LD3 8
- Latitude
- 51.940564
- Longitude
- -3.564873
- British National Grid easting
- 292,526
- British National Grid northing
- 228,052
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- Wales · W92000004
- Region
- W99999999
- Local authority district
- Powys · W06000023
- Electoral ward
- Maescar and Llywel · W05001159
- Parish or community
- W04000327
- Westminster constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe · W07000085
- Output area
- W00002528
- 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
Property
9 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| The Old Yew Tree, Defynnog, Brecon, LD3 8SB | 18 March 2022 | £170,000 |
| Ty Celyn, Defynnog, Brecon, LD3 8SB | 17 April 2019 | £365,000 |
| The Vicarage, Defynnog, Brecon, LD3 8SB | 5 April 2019 | £520,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 1
- Primary
- 0
- Secondary
- 0
- 350 m
Sennybridge C.P. School
Welsh establishment
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 31
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 18
- Public order 3
- Criminal damage and arson 3
- Anti social behaviour 2
- Drugs 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 22
- Postcode households
- 8
- Residents per household
- 2.8
- LD3 8 residents
- 4,394
12 female, 10 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 0.5% 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+
- 91.7%
- 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.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Lion Inn
BCT · Defynnog
- 0.0 miles
Lion Inn
BCT · Defynnog
- 0.2 miles
Tanners Arms
BCT · Defynnog
- 0.3 miles
Tanners Arms
BCT · Defynnog
- 0.3 miles
Defynnog Road
BCT · Sennybridge
Evidence in context
Schools
1 open schools are in scope, including 0 primary and 0 secondary schools. Sennybridge C.P. School is the nearest published school at 350 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
31 published events cover 12 months, averaging 2.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 18 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.