Schools
3 open schools are in scope, including 0 primary and 0 secondary schools. Crickhowell High School is the nearest published school at 668 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
NP8 1AX
Crickhowell with Cwmdu and Tretower · Powys · Wales
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe
- Postcode district
- NP8
- Postcode sector
- NP8 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- NP8 1AX
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 January 1995
- Postcode area
- NP
- Postcode district
- NP8
- Postcode sector
- NP8 1
- Latitude
- 51.856920
- Longitude
- -3.133978
- British National Grid easting
- 322,000
- British National Grid northing
- 218,200
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- Wales · W92000004
- Region
- W99999999
- Local authority district
- Powys · W06000023
- Electoral ward
- Crickhowell with Cwmdu and Tretower · W05001126
- Parish or community
- W04000267
- Westminster constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe · W07000085
- Output area
- W00002320
- Lower layer super output area
- Powys 018F · W01001903
- Middle layer super output area
- Powys 018 · W02000114
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 NP8
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 3
- Primary
- 0
- Secondary
- 0
- 668 m
Crickhowell High School
Welsh establishment
- 799 m
Crickhowell C.P. School
Welsh establishment
- 4.2 km
Gilwern C.P. School
Welsh establishment
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 111
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 55
- Anti social behaviour 9
- Public order 8
- Vehicle crime 8
- Criminal damage and arson 8
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- NP8 1 residents
- 5,284
Age bands in NP8 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 15.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 33.6%
710 residents
462 residents
828 residents
1,634 residents
1,843 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
WAR MEMORIAL HEALTH CENTRE
BEAUFORT STREET, CRICKHOWELL, NP8 1AG
ODS code W96016
45 m
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Crickhowell Health Centre
BCT · Crickhowell
- 0.0 miles
Crickhowell Health Centre
BCT · Crickhowell
- 0.2 miles
Crickhowell Square
BCT · Crickhowell
- 0.2 miles
Crickhowell Square
BCT · Crickhowell
- 0.2 miles
Elvicta Estate
BCT · Crickhowell
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
111 published events cover 12 months, averaging 9.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 55 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.