Schools
8 open schools are in scope, including 0 primary and 0 secondary schools. Priory C.I.W. School is the nearest published school at 0.8 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LD3 9WG
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 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LD3 9WG
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 December 1996
- Terminated
- 1 September 2000
- Postcode area
- LD
- Postcode district
- LD3
- Postcode sector
- LD3 9
- Latitude
- 51.960892
- Longitude
- -3.404591
- British National Grid easting
- 303,587
- British National Grid northing
- 230,088
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
- W00002620
- Lower layer super output area
- Powys 017G · W01001902
- 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
- 1.3 km
Priory C.I.W. School
Welsh establishment
- 1.5 km
South Powys Pupil Referral Unit
Welsh establishment
- 1.6 km
Ysgol Golwg Pen y Fan
Welsh establishment
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 314
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 149
- Criminal damage and arson 42
- Public order 26
- Anti social behaviour 26
- Other theft 15
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- LD3 9 residents
- 5,140
Age bands in LD3 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 21.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 26.6%
784 residents
435 residents
1,018 residents
1,280 residents
1,275 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
1.6 km
BRECON MEDICAL FACILITY
DERING LINES, BRECON, LD3 7RA
ODS code W00199
3.4 km
Nearby transport
- 0.4 miles
Trofan Maes-y-Ffynnon Turning Circle
BCT · Pendre
- 0.4 miles
Maes-y-Ffynnon
BCT · Pendre
- 0.5 miles
Cradoc Close
BCT · Pendre
- 0.6 miles
Brecon Cemetery
BCT · Pendre
- 0.6 miles
Uplands
BCT · Pendre
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
314 published events cover 12 months, averaging 26.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 149 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.