Property market
The five-year median is £186,250 from 4 recorded sales in SY16 3DR. 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 3DR
Dolforwyn · Powys · Wales
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SY16 3DR
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 April 1986
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SY
- Postcode district
- SY16
- Postcode sector
- SY16 3
- Latitude
- 52.561279
- Longitude
- -3.299312
- British National Grid easting
- 312,018
- British National Grid northing
- 296,730
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- Wales · W92000004
- Region
- W99999999
- Local authority district
- Powys · W06000023
- Electoral ward
- Dolforwyn · W05001129
- Parish or community
- W04000254
- Westminster constituency
- Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr · W07000102
- Output area
- W00002339
- Lower layer super output area
- Powys 007B · W01000439
- Middle layer super output area
- Powys 007 · W02000103
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
31 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 19, Ffordd Newydd, Bettws Cedewain, Newtown, SY16 3DR | 3 November 2023 | £165,000 |
| 6, Ffordd Newydd, Bettws Cedewain, Newtown, SY16 3DR | 9 June 2023 | £190,000 |
| 15a, Ffordd Newydd, Bettws Cedewain, Newtown, SY16 3DR | 14 January 2022 | £182,500 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 3
- Primary
- 0
- Secondary
- 0
- 3.0 km
Ysgol Rhiw Bechan
Welsh establishment
- 4.6 km
Abermule Primary School
Welsh establishment
- 4.9 km
Penygloddfa C.P. School
Welsh establishment
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 17
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 9
- Other theft 3
- Criminal damage and arson 3
- Public order 2
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 41
- Postcode households
- 20
- Residents per household
- 2.0
- SY16 3 residents
- 3,013
21 female, 20 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 1.4% 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+
- 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.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Post Office
BCT · Bettws Cedewain
- 0.1 miles
Post Office
BCT · Bettws Cedewain
- 0.1 miles
Bettws Cedewain Community Centre
BCT · Bettws Cedewain
- 1.8 miles
Post Office
BCT · Tregynon
- 1.8 miles
Ysgol Rhiw-Bechan
BCT · Tregynon
Evidence in context
Schools
3 open schools are in scope, including 0 primary and 0 secondary schools. Ysgol Rhiw Bechan is the nearest published school at 1.9 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
17 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 9 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.