Schools
11 open schools are in scope, including 0 primary and 0 secondary schools. Newtown High School is the nearest published school at 275 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SY16 3AA
Newtown East · Powys · Wales
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Newtown East
- Local authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr
- Postcode district
- SY16
- Postcode sector
- SY16 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SY16 3AA
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SY
- Postcode district
- SY16
- Postcode sector
- SY16 3
- Latitude
- 52.508792
- Longitude
- -3.316388
- British National Grid easting
- 310,754
- British National Grid northing
- 290,913
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- Wales · W92000004
- Region
- W99999999
- Local authority district
- Powys · W06000023
- Electoral ward
- Newtown East · W05001161
- Parish or community
- W04000335
- Westminster constituency
- Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr · W07000102
- Output area
- W00009782
- Lower layer super output area
- Powys 008A · W01000480
- 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
- 11
- Primary
- 0
- Secondary
- 0
- 275 m
Newtown High School
Welsh establishment
- 400 m
Ysgol Calon y Dderwen
Welsh establishment
- 418 m
Ysgol Dafydd Llwyd
Welsh establishment
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,544
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 767
- Criminal damage and arson 153
- Public order 129
- Anti social behaviour 115
- Shoplifting 91
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 5
- Postcode households
- 2
- Residents per household
- 2.5
- SY16 3 residents
- 3,013
3 female, 2 male
Age bands in SY16 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 19.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 31.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 24.1%
530 residents
336 residents
676 residents
1,074 residents
831 residents
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider SY16 3 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+
- 66.7%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 66.7%
- Gigabit-capable
- 66.7%
- 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
NEWTOWN MEDICAL CENTRE
PARK STREET, NEWTOWN, SY16 1EF
ODS code W96015
379 m
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Plantation Lane
BCT · Garth Owen
- 0.1 miles
Plantation Lane
BCT · Garth Owen
- 0.2 miles
Post Office
BCT · Garth Owen
- 0.2 miles
Post Office
BCT · Garth Owen
- 0.3 miles
Ladywell House
BCT · Newtown
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
1,544 published events cover 12 months, averaging 128.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 767 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.