Property market
The five-year median is £272,500 from 6 recorded sales in SY16 3HX. 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 3HX
Rhiwcynon · Powys · Wales
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SY16 3HX
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SY
- Postcode district
- SY16
- Postcode sector
- SY16 3
- Latitude
- 52.550458
- Longitude
- -3.374610
- British National Grid easting
- 306,891
- British National Grid northing
- 295,621
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- Wales · W92000004
- Region
- W99999999
- Local authority district
- Powys · W06000023
- Electoral ward
- Rhiwcynon · W05001167
- Parish or community
- W04000249
- Westminster constituency
- Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr · W07000102
- Output area
- W00002605
- Lower layer super output area
- Powys 006C · W01000488
- Middle layer super output area
- Powys 006 · W02000102
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
25 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Isfryn, 3, Bwlch Y Ffridd, Newtown, SY16 3HX | 28 November 2025 | £285,000 |
| Tan-Y-Fron, Bwlch Y Ffridd, Newtown, SY16 3HX | 31 July 2025 | £260,000 |
| Isfryn, 2, Bwlch Y Ffridd, Newtown, SY16 3HX | 2 December 2022 | £230,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 2
- Primary
- 0
- Secondary
- 0
- 4.2 km
Ysgol Rhiw Bechan
Welsh establishment
- 4.7 km
Caersws C.P. School
Welsh establishment
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Other theft 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 53
- Postcode households
- 24
- Residents per household
- 2.2
- SY16 3 residents
- 3,013
29 female, 24 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 1.8% 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+
- 96%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 96%
- Gigabit-capable
- 96%
- 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
- 0.0 miles
Bwlch-y-Ffridd Chapel
BCT · Bwlch-y-ffridd
- 0.0 miles
Bwlch-y-Ffridd Chapel
BCT · Bwlch-y-ffridd
- 2.0 miles
Hillcrest
BCT · Aberhafesp
- 2.0 miles
Hill Crest
BCT · Aberhafesp
- 2.5 miles
Post Office
BCT · Tregynon
Evidence in context
Schools
2 open schools are in scope, including 0 primary and 0 secondary schools. Ysgol Rhiw Bechan is the nearest published school at 2.6 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
1 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Other theft with 1 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.