Schools
3 open schools are in scope, including 0 primary and 0 secondary schools. Caersws C.P. School is the nearest published school at 1.8 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SY17 5PQ
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 5PQ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1991
- Terminated
- 1 June 1996
- Postcode area
- SY
- Postcode district
- SY17
- Postcode sector
- SY17 5
- Latitude
- 52.521296
- Longitude
- -3.466424
- British National Grid easting
- 300,600
- British National Grid northing
- 292,500
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
- W00002309
- 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
- 3
- Primary
- 0
- Secondary
- 0
- 2.8 km
Caersws C.P. School
Welsh establishment
- 3.9 km
Ysgol Dyffryn Trannon
Welsh establishment
- 4.5 km
Llandinam 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
- Violence and sexual offences 1
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
- 0.9 miles
Pontdolgoch
BCT · Pont Dol-Goch
- 0.9 miles
Pontdolgoch
BCT · Pont Dol-Goch
- 1.3 miles
Llanwnog
BCT · Llanwnog
- 1.3 miles
Llanwnog
BCT · Llanwnog
- 1.5 miles
Caersws Rail Station
RLY · Caersws
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
1 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.