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 633 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
LD6 5WG
Rhayader · Powys · Wales
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Rhayader
- Local authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe
- Postcode district
- LD6
- Postcode sector
- LD6 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- LD6 5WG
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 December 2000
- Terminated
- 1 May 2002
- Postcode area
- LD
- Postcode district
- LD6
- Postcode sector
- LD6 5
- Latitude
- 52.301198
- Longitude
- -3.508493
- British National Grid easting
- 297,235
- British National Grid northing
- 268,079
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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 1
- Primary
- 0
- Secondary
- 0
- 633 m
Rhayader C.I.W. School
Welsh establishment
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 190
- 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 19
- Drugs 8
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- LD6 5 residents
- 2,887
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
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
1
within 5 km straight-line
RHAYADER GROUP PRACTICE
CAEHERBERT LANE, RHAYADER, LD6 5ED
ODS code W96006
33 m
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Post Office
BCT · Rhayader
- 0.1 miles
Lamb and Flag
BCT · Rhayader
- 0.1 miles
o/s Lamb and Flag
BCT · Rhayader
- 0.1 miles
Rhayader Central Car Park
BCT · Rhayader
- 0.1 miles
Rhayader Central Car Park
BCT · Rhayader
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
190 published events cover 12 months, averaging 15.833 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.