Schools
10 open schools are in scope, including 0 primary and 0 secondary schools. Penygloddfa C.P. School is the nearest published school at 132 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SY16 2HJ
Newtown West · Powys · Wales
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Newtown
- 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 2HJ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SY
- Postcode district
- SY16
- Postcode sector
- SY16 2
- Latitude
- 52.519593
- Longitude
- -3.318568
- British National Grid easting
- 310,628
- British National Grid northing
- 292,117
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
- W00002576
- 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
Property
2 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 2, Mount Pleasant, Newtown, SY16 2HJ | 3 February 2003 | £30,000 |
| 2, Mount Pleasant, Newtown, SY16 2HJ | 23 September 1996 | £38,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 10
- Primary
- 0
- Secondary
- 0
- 132 m
Penygloddfa C.P. School
Welsh establishment
- 529 m
St Mary's R.C. (A) School
Welsh establishment
- 800 m
Ysgol Dafydd Llwyd
Welsh establishment
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,108
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 545
- Public order 101
- Criminal damage and arson 98
- Shoplifting 91
- Anti social behaviour 79
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 4
- Postcode households
- 2
- Residents per household
- 2.0
- SY16 2 residents
- 3,710
2 female, 2 male
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
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider SY16 2 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
834 m
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Bryn Lane
BCT · Pen-y-Glodfa
- 0.1 miles
Commercial Street
BCT · Newtown
- 0.1 miles
Commercial Street
BCT · Newtown
- 0.1 miles
Crescent Presbyterian Church
BCT · Newtown
- 0.2 miles
Montgomeryshire Infirmary
BCT · Newtown
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
1,108 published events cover 12 months, averaging 92.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 545 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.