Schools
1 open schools are in scope, including 0 primary and 0 secondary schools. Rhayader C.I.W. School is the nearest published school at 433 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LD6 5DB
Rhayader · Powys · Wales
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LD6 5DB
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- LD
- Postcode district
- LD6
- Postcode sector
- LD6 5
- Latitude
- 52.303689
- Longitude
- -3.506363
- British National Grid easting
- 297,386
- British National Grid northing
- 268,353
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- Wales · W92000004
- Region
- W99999999
- Local authority district
- Powys · W06000023
- Electoral ward
- Rhayader · W05001166
- Parish or community
- W04000341
- Westminster constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe · W07000085
- Output area
- W00002601
- Lower layer super output area
- Powys 012E · W01000487
- Middle layer super output area
- Powys 012 · W02000108
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 LD6
Property
10 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Crossfield House, Dark Lane, Rhayader, LD6 5DB | 9 August 2018 | £3,500,000 |
| Llwynderw, Dark Lane, Rhayader, LD6 5DB | 24 March 2016 | £224,000 |
| Bryn Derwen, Dark Lane, Rhayader, LD6 5DB | 9 November 2015 | £180,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 1
- Primary
- 0
- Secondary
- 0
- 433 m
Rhayader C.I.W. School
Welsh establishment
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 188
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 100
- Criminal damage and arson 25
- Public order 23
- Anti social behaviour 17
- Drugs 8
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 50
- Postcode households
- 9
- Residents per household
- 5.6
- LD6 5 residents
- 2,887
32 female, 18 male
Age bands in LD6 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 19.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 29.9%
406 residents
238 residents
528 residents
716 residents
807 residents
This postcode contained 1.7% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider LD6 5 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+
- 90%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 90%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 90%
- Gigabit-capable
- 90%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 90%
- 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
1
within 5 km
RHAYADER GROUP PRACTICE
CAEHERBERT LANE, RHAYADER, LD6 5ED
ODS code W96006
318 m
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
- 0.0 miles
Green Gardens
BCT · Rhayader
- 0.0 miles
Green Gardens
BCT · Rhayader
- 0.1 miles
Brynheulog
BCT · Rhayader
- 0.1 miles
Rhayader Cemetery
BCT · Rhayader
- 0.1 miles
Rhayader Cemetery
BCT · Rhayader
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
188 published events cover 12 months, averaging 15.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 100 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.