Schools
10 open schools are in scope, including 0 primary and 0 secondary schools. Penygloddfa C.P. School is the nearest published school at 70 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SY16 2GB
Newtown West · Powys · Wales
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Newtown West
- Local authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr
- Postcode district
- SY16
- Postcode sector
- SY16 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SY16 2GB
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 April 2009
- Terminated
- 1 May 2010
- Postcode area
- SY
- Postcode district
- SY16
- Postcode sector
- SY16 2
- Latitude
- 52.518266
- Longitude
- -3.318233
- British National Grid easting
- 310,648
- British National Grid northing
- 291,969
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- Wales · W92000004
- Region
- W99999999
- Local authority district
- Powys · W06000023
- Electoral ward
- Newtown West · W05001163
- Parish or community
- W04000335
- Westminster constituency
- Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr · W07000102
- Output area
- W00002574
- Lower layer super output area
- Powys 008C · W01000482
- Middle layer super output area
- Powys 008 · W02000104
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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 10
- Primary
- 0
- Secondary
- 0
- 70 m
Penygloddfa C.P. School
Welsh establishment
- 434 m
St Mary's R.C. (A) School
Welsh establishment
- 652 m
Ysgol Dafydd Llwyd
Welsh establishment
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,172
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 585
- Public order 107
- Criminal damage and arson 104
- Shoplifting 91
- Anti social behaviour 83
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SY16 2 residents
- 3,710
Age bands in SY16 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 11.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10%
- Age 25 to 44
- 21.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 29.9%
414 residents
354 residents
749 residents
966 residents
1,058 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
NEWTOWN MEDICAL CENTRE
PARK STREET, NEWTOWN, SY16 1EF
ODS code W96015
685 m
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Crescent Presbyterian Church
BCT · Newtown
- 0.1 miles
Commercial Street
BCT · Newtown
- 0.1 miles
Commercial Street
BCT · Newtown
- 0.2 miles
Frankwell Street
BCT · Newtown
- 0.2 miles
Frankwell Street
BCT · Newtown
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
1,172 published events cover 12 months, averaging 97.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 585 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.