Property market
The five-year median is £136,250 from 6 recorded sales in SY16 1RA. 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.
SY16 1RA
Newtown Central and South · Powys · Wales
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Newtown
- Local authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr
- Postcode district
- SY16
- Postcode sector
- SY16 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SY16 1RA
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 February 1984
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SY
- Postcode district
- SY16
- Postcode sector
- SY16 1
- Latitude
- 52.506900
- Longitude
- -3.339214
- British National Grid easting
- 309,201
- British National Grid northing
- 290,731
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- Wales · W92000004
- Region
- W99999999
- Local authority district
- Powys · W06000023
- Electoral ward
- Newtown Central and South · W05001160
- Parish or community
- W04000335
- Westminster constituency
- Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr · W07000102
- Output area
- W00002546
- Lower layer super output area
- Powys 009A · W01000478
- Middle layer super output area
- Powys 009 · W02000105
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 SY16
Property
38 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 281, Heol Y Coleg, Newtown, SY16 1RA | 16 May 2025 | £140,000 |
| 295, Heol Y Coleg, Newtown, SY16 1RA | 6 April 2023 | £101,700 |
| 277, Heol Y Coleg, Newtown, SY16 1RA | 26 July 2022 | £137,500 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 9
- Primary
- 0
- Secondary
- 0
- 706 m
Maesyrhandir C.P. School
Welsh establishment
- 1.0 km
Ysgol Cedewain
Welsh establishment
- 1.3 km
Newtown High School
Welsh establishment
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 963
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 500
- Criminal damage and arson 118
- Public order 72
- Anti social behaviour 67
- Drugs 44
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 160
- Postcode households
- 78
- Residents per household
- 2.1
- SY16 1 residents
- 6,667
78 female, 82 male
Age bands in SY16 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 21.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 12.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 26.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 23.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 15.6%
1,378 residents
789 residents
1,692 residents
1,508 residents
993 residents
This postcode contained 2.4% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider SY16 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+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- 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 straight-line
NEWTOWN MEDICAL CENTRE
PARK STREET, NEWTOWN, SY16 1EF
ODS code W96015
1.6 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Heol-y-nant
BCT · Nantoer
- 0.1 miles
Newtown College
BCT · Mochdre
- 0.1 miles
Heol-y-nant
BCT · Nantoer
- 0.1 miles
Heol Pengwern
BCT · Nantoer
- 0.1 miles
Turning Circle
BCT · Nantoer
Evidence in context
Schools
9 open schools are in scope, including 0 primary and 0 secondary schools. Maesyrhandir C.P. School is the nearest published school at 706 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
963 published events cover 12 months, averaging 80.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 500 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.