Property market
The five-year median is £288,750 from 4 recorded sales in NP8 1RU. 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.
NP8 1RU
Crickhowell with Cwmdu and Tretower · Powys · Wales
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Crickhowell
- 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 1RU
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- NP
- Postcode district
- NP8
- Postcode sector
- NP8 1
- Latitude
- 51.905004
- Longitude
- -3.191561
- British National Grid easting
- 318,122
- British National Grid northing
- 223,611
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
- W04000302
- Westminster constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe · W07000085
- Output area
- W00009791
- Lower layer super output area
- Powys 018H · W01001905
- 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
Property
27 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Tyffynon, Cwmdu, Crickhowell, NP8 1RU | 7 August 2025 | £485,000 |
| Ael Y Bryn, Cwmdu, Crickhowell, NP8 1RU | 13 December 2024 | £297,500 |
| 2, Cwmdu Court, Cwmdu, Crickhowell, NP8 1RU | 28 June 2024 | £280,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 0
- Primary
- 0
- Secondary
- 0
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 50
- Postcode households
- 23
- Residents per household
- 2.2
- NP8 1 residents
- 5,284
24 female, 26 male
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
This postcode contained 0.9% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider NP8 1 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+
- 54.3%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 54.3%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 54.3%
- Gigabit-capable
- 54.3%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 54.3%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 25.7%
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
- 0.1 miles
Farmers Arms
BCT · Llanfihangel Cwmdu
- 0.1 miles
Farmers Arms
BCT · Llanfihangel Cwmdu
- 1.5 miles
Tretower Castle
BCT · Tretower
- 1.5 miles
Tretower Castle
BCT · Tretower
- 1.9 miles
Gilfaes Turn
BCT · Tretower
Evidence in context
Schools
0 open schools are in scope, including 0 primary and 0 secondary schools.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.