Schools
2 open schools are in scope, including 0 primary and 0 secondary schools. Caersws C.P. School is the nearest published school at 232 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SY17 5HZ
Caersws · Powys · Wales
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Caersws
- Local authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr
- Postcode district
- SY17
- Postcode sector
- SY17 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SY17 5HZ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 2006
- Terminated
- 1 November 2007
- Postcode area
- SY
- Postcode district
- SY17
- Postcode sector
- SY17 5
- Latitude
- 52.521369
- Longitude
- -3.421339
- British National Grid easting
- 303,659
- British National Grid northing
- 292,447
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- Wales · W92000004
- Region
- W99999999
- Local authority district
- Powys · W06000023
- Electoral ward
- Caersws · W05001124
- Parish or community
- W04000259
- Westminster constituency
- Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr · W07000102
- Output area
- W00002310
- Lower layer super output area
- Powys 006A · W01000433
- 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 SY17
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 2
- Primary
- 0
- Secondary
- 0
- 232 m
Caersws C.P. School
Welsh establishment
- 4.1 km
Llandinam C.P. School
Welsh establishment
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 53
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 28
- Anti social behaviour 6
- Other theft 5
- Criminal damage and arson 5
- Public order 3
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SY17 5 residents
- 3,698
Age bands in SY17 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 12.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 17.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 29.5%
451 residents
323 residents
617 residents
1,073 residents
1,030 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.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Plas Maldwyn
BCT · Caersws
- 0.1 miles
Plas Maldwyn
BCT · Caersws
- 0.1 miles
Plas Maldwyn
BCT · Caersws
- 0.4 miles
Buck Inn
BCT · Caersws
- 0.4 miles
Buck Inn
BCT · Caersws
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
53 published events cover 12 months, averaging 4.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 28 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.